Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Voisin, Pierre Joseph

​VOISIN, Pierre Joseph, French naturalist, b. in Toulouse, Languedoc, in 1759 ; d. in Cayenne, Guiana, in 1821. He early entered the colonial service, and was assistant treasurer of Guiana in 1792, when he was ordered to France to answer for his administration before the convention, but he went instead to Dutch Guiana, and began farming on Essequibo river. Later he removed to Parama- ribo, and was commissioned to survey the south- eastern counties of the colony, where he experi- enced difficulties of all kinds, being once detained as hostage by marroon negroes. After the sur- render of French Guiana to the Portuguese he re- turned to Cayenne in 1812, and was employed in the central administration till he was pensioned in 1818. His works include " Statistique des parties basses de la Guiane Hollandaise, suivie d'un releve du cours du fleuve Essequibo " (2 vols., Demerara, 1806) ; " Petite histoire naturelle pittoresque de la Guiane Francaise " (1808) ; " Traite des legumi- neuses de la Guiane Hollandaise " (1810) : and " Monographic de la Goyave " (Cayenne, 1814).

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