Ann, have a look at the ryborg book online in pdf format at the danish consulate/st.croix/genealogy page. I can send you the link if you havent yet seen it. i have four of my RUANs "arriving" from Anguilla and Martinique and St.Martin during the time just before 1736 and into the early 1740s. John Ruan who owned No. 19 West End Quarter was there before the Danish. I have an email somewhere that explains how this was deduced from the Professor with the cadastral index-cartography site for st.croix. i am looking for the same sort of information that you have posted to the list. kind regards, jason Carpenter Pacific Palisades