Catalogue description War and Colonial Department: St. Thomas Entry Books of Correspondence, etc.

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Reference: CO 259
Title: War and Colonial Department: St. Thomas Entry Books of Correspondence, etc.
Description:

This series contains entry books of correspondence relating to St Thomas. Includes shipping returns and accounts of the Commissioners for liquidating the Danish and Dutch loans for St Thomas and St John.

Date: 1808-1815
Related material:

For further records see WO 121-128 and 145.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

War and Colonial Department, 1801-1854

War and Colonial Department, Commissioners for liquidating the Danish and Dutch loans for St Thomas and St John, 1808-1812

Physical description: 6 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

St Thomas (now part of the United States Virgin Islands) was formerly a Danish colony and part of the Danish West Indies. however in 1801 and 1807-1815 the island was captured by Britain.

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