|
|
||
 |
|
Danish West Indies |
|
|
||
| |||||||||
|
Character of the Inhabitants on the Island of St. John
- 1722 Inhabitants of St. John
|
| 1. | Erik Bredal | The vice-commander |
| 2. | Cornelius Delicat | An old inhabitant here in St. Thomas, who always more than anybody else has been ready to serve the honorable company, which any who have been here can witness. His plantation here [St. Thomas] is quite poor, such that he cannot support his family. He is the only one other than the honorable company who has built a sugar work on St. John. |
| 3. | Joachim Delicat | Cornelius Delicat's son. Lives on St. John. |
| 4. | Jacobus Delicat | The same Cornelius Delicat's son. He lives on St. John. |
| 5. | Pieter deur Loo | Who has inspection over the company's plantations here in the land [St. Thomas]. Was the very first who went to live on St. John, as nobody else yet dared because of the treat from other nations. |
| 6. | Andreas Hissing | Danish. |
| 7. | Jacobus van Stelle | Lives on St. John. Inhabitant previously on St. Thomas. |
| 8. | Wilhelm van Stelle | The same Jacob's brother. |
| 9. | Johannes Seis | Old inhabitant on St. Thomas. Has an adult son, whom he there will place, but the father is now dead. |
| 10. | Jan Vlak | Has worked in the honorable company's service. |
| 11. | Isaac Groenwold | Reformed minister on St. Thomas. He was given a plantation there [St. John] as his wife and children after his death have no place or plantation here. |
| 12. | Andreas Torstenson | Danish. |
| 13. | Adolph Pieter Maynfelt | Danish. |
| 14. | Johannes Charles | Has previously been an inhabitant on St. Thomas, but his plantation here in the land the honorable company has taken payment of debts. It was then necessary to help him and his wife in their poverty with land on St. John. |
| 15. | Isaac Runnels | Born here in this land. |
| 16. | Abraham Runnels | His brother. |
| 17. | Johannes Beverhoudt | Inhabitant here on St. Thomas. A good and reliable subject. |
| 18. | Claudi van Beverhoudt | Lives in St. John. He has taken on the task to check the honorable company's indigo works there. |
| 19. | Gerard Mol | He lives here, and his plantation is poor. |
| 20. | Lucas van Beverhoudt | Now dead. Was the first person to establish a sugar work on St. Thomas. |
| 21. | Adrain van Beverhoudt | His son |
| 22. | Francois Buk | Is dead. Resided previously on St. John. His widow is the only heir. This plantation I have seized until the result of a trial, in which the widow is accused of being an accomplice with a pirate who is here in prison. |
| 23. | Thomas Bourdeaux | Has made an oath of citizenship in this land during deceased Crone's time. His plantation on St. Thomas has always been poisoned by bad subsoil water. |
| 24. | Isaac Constantin | A French refugee, resides on St. Jan. He had a small piece of land here, but on measuring his neighbors [land] he has lost much of it and can not live off it. |
| 25. | Madam Patquereaux | A widow residing here whose inheritance she holds of the French as she is Reformed. |
| 26. | Jacob Bouferon | French refugee |
| 27. | Adrian Charles | Has a poor plantation on St. Thomas, which he can not live off of. |
| 28. | Frenk Gonsaloes | An old St. Thomas inhabitant who could not live here and hardly support the Negroes he has. |
| 29. | Johannes Uytendael | An inhabitant on St. Thomas here and has a plantation here which yearly worsens. |
| 30. | Bertel Søfrensen | Danish. Has been a soldier in Guinea |
| 31. | Jacob Magens | Danish. |
| 32. | Johan Casper Cracowitz | Danish. Died after he took up the plantation. |
| 33. | Adrian Runnels | Has a plantation here on this island and has an overseer on St. John. |
| 34. | Paul Stage | Danish. |
| 35. | Jan Loison | French refugee. Resides on St. John. |
| 36. | Lieutenant Ullerup | Danish. Is dead and his widow is [the] only heir |
| 37. | Jacques Thomas' children | Their father was a French refugee and Captain on the Danish ship The Crown Prince. |
| 38. | Jochim Coop | Has lead the Danish ship Christiansfort. Is Lutheran. |
|
|
| ||||||||
