Notes

[1] The term ‘Irish’ refers to individuals bearing last names associated with Ireland. Figure compiled using the Christiansted Weighbook for the month of June 1761, 1762 and 1763. Irish exporters were responsible for some 1.7 million rd (Reichsthalers/Rixdalers) of a total of 5.8 million rd of sugar exports from Christiansted during this period. Record Group 55. Saint Croix, Various Departments. Weighbooks, 1748-1778 Vol. 11,12 and 13. Entry No. 465. NARA , College Park, MD.

[2] Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations ... preserved in the Public Record Office. London : H.M.S.O., 1920-1938 (1749-50 Jan.-1753 De - 1932). 3 December 1751

[3] For example: Cullen, L. M. ‘The Irish Merchant Communities of Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Cognac in the Eighteenth Century’ in Negoce et industrie en France et en Irlande aux XVIIIe et XIXe siecles : actes du Colloque franco-irlandais d'histoire, Bordeaux, May 1978 / sous la direction de L.M. Cullen et P. Butel. (Paris 1980) and Cullen, L. M. ‘Galway merchants in the outside world, 1650-1800’ in: Galway: Town and Gown 1484-1984, ed. Ó Cearbhaill, D. (Dublin, 1984), 63-89.).

[4] Truxes, Thomas, M. ‘London’s Irish Merchant community and North Atlantic Commerce in the Mid-Eighteenth Century’ in Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, David Dickson, Jan Parmentier and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.), Gent, Academia Press, 2006.

[5] For a more comprehensive background to the early Irish settlement at Saint Croix, see: Power, Orla ‘The ‘Quadripartite Concern’ of St. Croix, 1751-1757. An Irish Catholic Plantation in the Danish West Indies’ in Proceedings of the Irish in the Atlantic World Conference, Charleston S. C. March 2007, forthcoming.

[6] Letterbook of John Baker. Letters to Mr. Tuite. 27 January 1752 and 30 July 1752. See also: Yorke, Philip C. Diary of John Baker, London 1931. p16.

[7] See Holt, G. St. Omers and Bruges Colleges. 1593-1773. A Biographical Dictionary. Catholic Record Society, Vol. 69 (London, 1979.

[8] Letterbook of John Baker. 22 June 1752.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Letterbook of John Baker. Letter to Mr. Tuite, 27 January 1752.

[11] Yorke, Philip, C. The Diary of John Baker. London 1931. p92.

[12] Letterbook of John Baker, Letter to brother Thomas, 4 March 1752.

[13] Danish unit of Currency. In 1760, one rixdaler was equivalent to one shilling sterling (see Yorke 1931: 140).

[14] NARA, Washington D.C. Record Group 55. Saint Croix Customs Department, Christiansted. Customs Journal, 1749-1799. Box 877D, Entry No. 460. 1760. Ff246 [no date].

[15] Ibid, ff220.

[16] Component of the distillation still. Lewis, William, The Edinburgh new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. ... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal ... The second edition; with many alterations, corrections, and additions. Edinburgh, 1789. p352.

[17] Record Group 55. Saint Croix Customs Department, Christiansted. Customs Journal, 1749-1799. Box 877D, Entry No. 460. ff176.

[18] Ibid., ff136.

[19] Ibid, ff203.

[20] See for example the return of Nicholas Tuite and Theobald Bourke from England in June 1755. Yorke, Philip C. Diary of John Baker. London 1931. p82

[21] Tuite and Baker met Baron Bothmar on two occasions, 30 October 1758 and 18 June 1760. pp118 & 136.

References

- Christiansted Weighbook for the month of June 1761, 1762 and 1763. Record Group 55. Saint Croix, Various Departments. Weighbooks, 1748-1778 Vol. 11,12 and 13. Entry No. 465. NARA , College Park, MD.

- Cullen, L. M. ‘Galway merchants in the outside world, 1650-1800’ in Ó Cearbhaill, D. (ed.), Galway: Town and Gown 1484-1984 (Dublin, 1984), 63-89.).

- Cullen, L. M. ‘The Irish Merchant Communities of Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Cognac in the Eighteenth Century’ in Négoce et industrie en France et en Irlande aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : Actes du Colloque franco-irlandais d'histoire, Bordeaux (May 1978), sous la direction de L.M. Cullen et P. Butel (Paris 1980).

- Holt, G. ‘St. Omers and Bruges Colleges. 1593-1773. A Biographical Dictionary’ in Catholic Record Society 69 (London, 1979).

- Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations ... preserved in the Public Record Office. London : H.M.S.O., 1920-1938 (1749-50 Jan.-1753 De – 1932). 3 December 1751

- Letterbook of John Baker. Letters to Mr. Tuite. 27 January 1752 and 30 July 1752.

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- Westergaard, Waldermar. The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule. 1671-1754, with a supplementary chapter, 1755-1917 (New York, 1917), p130. Available online (http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/index.html), cited 1 October 2007.

- Will of Lawrence Bodkin of Saint Croix, West Indies (Will Bodkin).

- Will of Nicholas Tuite of London (Will Tuite).

- Will of Theobald Bourke, Planter of Saint Croix (Will Bourke).

- Will of William Dalton of Island of Saint Croix, West Indies (Will Dalton).

- Yorke, Philip C. Diary of John Baker (London, 1931).