English translations of Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer: Martinique correspondence, COL C8 A 2 (1676–1682)

This dataset contains digitised English translations of French manuscript documents from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence), Secrétariat d’État à la Marine, Correspondance à l’arrivée de la Martinique, volume COL C8 A 2, covering approximately 1676–1682. The texts originate from the published/online images of the original manuscripts and have been processed, corrected, and standardised for research use. They include royal correspondence, ordinances, memoranda, reports, petitions, council extracts, financial accounts, and other administrative documents relating to the government, commerce, defence, fortification, justice and social conditions of Martinique and other French Caribbean colonies. Each row in the dataset represents a single document-level unit (e.g. letter, memorandum, ordinance, report, petition, account, or other item-level text).