His family, slave owners based in Bordeaux, France, held interests in sugar plantations in Haiti including Bellevue, one of the largest in the world.
On October 4, 1790, Pierre married Juliette des Chapelles, whose important correspondence would fuel the work of historians.
Juliette was a childhood friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais, daughter of a family of planters from Martinique and future wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The couple left Haiti on September 27, 1791, on a ship belonging to the French-American banker Stephen Girard which arrived on October 14 in Philadelphia.
[1] Upon his arrival, he established a hackney carriage manufacturing business in Wilmington, Delaware, then returned to Haiti in 1795 to sell his plantation.
The company, based in Wilmington, focused on military supplies, initially providing woolen uniforms for French forces aiming to retake Haiti.
To avoid any conflict of interest, the French consul in Washington demanded that a new company be created, with the assets of the old one transferred to France.
du Pont de Nemours went to visit the Bauduy brothers in Wilmington, but they had left, one for Haiti and the other for Argentina.
[4] Several letters report the cooling of relations between the partners,[5] and Bauduy withdrew from the company in December 1814, then sold his shares in DuPont on February 18, 1815, at the end of the War of 1812.