On Apr 30, 12:26 am, Dante <[email protected]> wrote: > The book simply listed different geographic features (towns,   > plantations, 'mountains', bays, cays etc.) alphabetically.  For each,   > it would give a location, latititude, longitude, elevation, nearby   > features, other names the place was known by.  I don't recall the book   > having any true histories of the estates or listing any plantation   > numbers or owner's names (except in the rare case that it was named   > for an owner) > > Perhaps you may be more likely to get the information you want about   > estate histories from St. Croix Landmarks Society at Estate Whim in   > St. Croix (google them)- let me know what you come up with.  What   > estates are you looking at? > > BTW, what is the Cronenberg map? > > Dante > > On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Subject: Re: [Carib] Geographic Dictionary of the Virgin Islands of > >    the US > > snip > > > > > > > Do you recall if it had names of owners? Plantation numbers per > > Cronenberg map? I live out of the US and do not have access to > > libraries that have the book.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - The Cronenberg map was made about 1750 and was the first to show St. Croix divided into quarters that had plantation numbers. It had some plantations shown with names of owners. A 1767 annotated map by Beck showed all plantations and owners names. Dan Hopkins at the University of Missouri at Kansas City has a site regarding the cartography of St. Croix at http://cas.umkc.edu/StCroix/. Much useful info but unfortunately the project has been dormant for some time. I am trying to trace the histories of Spanishtown, Clifton Hill, Barrenspot, Parasol as they are known to have been owned by Markoes. What I am hoping to determine is who was the first St. Croix Markoe and when. I know that in 1718 a Peter Markoe at Spanishtown Virgin Gorda signed a petition to Gov Hamilton of the Leeward Islands requesting permission to settle on St. Croix but I don't iknow what became of the request. From about 1695 to 1733 St Croix was more-or- less abandoned by the French and many people "squatted" there - perhaps a Markoe among them. I have seen some "Google" book-search snippits of the Geographic Dictionary and as I recall it did show some plantation names and owners but from what period or how detailed it's hard to say.

If you will list the Quarters on St. Croix that your family had property, I have a list of all the property owners, I will be happy to extract the info for you, re Beck's map. Ann"Sharing the information."Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados. -------------------------------

Extracted from Beck's Map,St. Croix NORTH END QUARTER B Lot # 16, Abraham Markoe, Parasol Lot # 18, Peter Mackoe, Prosperity KONGEN QUARTER Lot #21, Matthew Ferral, Barron Spot Lot #22, Isaac Mackoe, Clifton Hill Lot #29, Abraham Mackoe, Spanish Town DRONNEGEN QUARTER Lot #19, Isaac Hartman/Baron vonPucke, Barron Spot/La Reine Lot #30, Alex. Moirs, Barren Spot EAST END QUARTER B Lot #6, Abraham Markot/Jacob Madsen, Mount Retreat Lot #7, Isaac Markoe/Benjamin Gums, Gumbs land NOTE: These are not misspellings, but exact extractions from the original map. Good Luck, Ann"Sharing the information."Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:10:02 -0700> Subject: Re: [Carib] Geographic Dictionary of the Virgin Islands of the US> > > If you will list the Quarters on St. Croix that your family had property, I have a list of all the property owners, I will be happy to extract the info for you, re Beck's map.> Ann"Sharing the information."Researching the USVI, St.Eustatius, St. Barths, Barbados. -------------------------------> ***************************> The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message