VOSTEY, or VOTEY, Gabriel Henry (vo-tay), Count de, Haytian historian, born in Cape Francais about 1768; died there in 1831. He was a mulatto, son of a French officer, and was first known under the name of Gabriel Henry. After receiving his education in Prance, he returned to Hayti and became lieutenant in the colonial militia, but subsequently he joined the national army and fought under Jean Francois and Toussaint l'Ouverture. The latter gave him his father's estates in 1800, after which he took the name of Count de Vostey. In 1802 he was among the first to submit to General Victor Leclerc, but afterward he joined Dessa-lines with a regiment that he raised among his laborers, and assisted in the campaign that terminated in November, 1804. Afterward quarrelling with Dessalines, he took refuge in the Spanish part of the island till the elevation of Henry Christophe, when he returned to Hayti and became a courtier and the historian of the negro king. He published "Essai sur l'invasion Francaise de 1802 " (2 vols., Cape Francais, 1811)" "Le systeme colonial devoile" (1814)" " Reflexions politiques sur l'etat present des noirs et des blancs" (1817) ; "Essai sur les causes des revolutions de Hayti" (2 vols., 1819)" and " Memoires pour servir a l'administration de Toussaint l'Ouverture" (2 vols., 1824).