French Azilum, located in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was a planned settlement for refugees fleeing the French Revolution. Several influential Philadelphians, including Stephen Girard, Robert Morris and John Nicholson, Pennsylvania's comptroller general, were sympathetic to the exiles, and also saw a chance to profit financially. In 1793 they aided in the purchase of 1,600 acres (6 km²) of land in northeastern Pennsylvania, which was then wilderness. An area of 300 acres (1.2 km²) was laid out as a town plot including a 2-acre (8,100 m²) market square, a grid of broad streets and 413 lots, approximately one-half acre each. About 30 log houses were built. A small number of exiles arrived that fall. Some were royalists, loyal to Louis XVI and thus fleeing imprisonment and possible death during the French Revolution. Others came from the French colony of Santo Domingo (Haiti) where there were slave uprisings inspired by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of the French Assembly.