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Aug 15, 2020 · However, when I was researching the history of flamboyant trees in the Caribbean, I found a number of sources linking them to Philippe de Longviliers de Poincy, a French governor in the 1600s who was involved with the colonization of St. Kitts, St. Martin, St. Barths and St. Croix.
Known as “St. JanCo,” The St. John Heritage Collective is a community land trust, on the small island of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). St. JanCo is on a mission to preserve the history, identity, and culture of St. John’s people, especially those whose ancestry on St. John predates the 1917 American Purchase of the USVI from Denmark, and the 1956 establishment of the Virgin ...
Sep 11, 2018 · Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l’isle Saint-Domingue, vol. I. (Philadelphia: 1797), 93. Of additional interest is an excerpt from the memoir of Marc-Antoine Caillot, a clerk of the French Company of the Indies; on the way to Louisiana via Saint-Domingue in the late 1720s, he wrote ...
Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy (French pronunciation: [fijip də lɔ̃vilje də pwɛ̃si]; 1584–1660) [1] was a French nobleman and Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta. He governed the island of Saint Christopher from 1639 to his death in 1660, first under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique and later under the Knights of Malta themselves.
Saint John (Danish: Sankt Jan; Spanish: San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Saint John (50 km 2 (19 sq mi)) is the smallest of the three main US Virgin Islands. [4]
May 27, 2024 · Les Saintes Location and Information. Les Saintes, also known as Iles des Saintes, is made up of nine unspoiled islands in total, two of which are inhabited – Terre de Haut and Terre de Bas. It is a dependency of Guadeloupe which in turn is an Overseas Territory of France. The euro is the official currency and French is the official language.
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Mar 15, 2019 · Long before the Revolution, George Bologne de Saint-Georges had returned to Guadeloupe to oversee his plantation. He died there and left his fortune to his white daughter. In the late 1790s, the ...
