[5] On 22 September 1710 the king gave Valernod command of Tortuga and the coast of Saint-Domingue.
[6] A letter of 23 September 1710 told François-Joseph, comte de Choiseul-Beaupré that the king had relieved him of his duties as governor of Saint-Domingue.
[7] Also on 23 September 1710 the Secrétariat d'État à la Marine wrote to Valernod informing him of his appointment as governor of Saint-Domingue in place of Choiseul, and wrote to the intendant Jean-Jacques Mithon de Senneville on the same subject.
A letter of 6 February 1711 discussed road maintenance, buccaneers, discipline of the Negros and other subjects.
[4] Valernod and Mithon issued an ordinance on 1 May 1711 requiring all the settlers to report the number of blacks and mulattoes that were working for them, on pain of having undeclared negros confiscated.