[CARIBBEAN] VANTERPOOL

[Louise Daniel Hutchinson]

Alan,

The surname VANTERPOOL aka VANDERPOOL is probably Dutch in origin.

The Danish West Indies was a polyglot of varied ethnic groups,
nationalities, and cultures. Brokers for the Danes, the Dutch promoted
colonization of the Islands. The 1841 Census for St. John. enumerated
an Ellis and Ann Vanderpool. Many more were enumerated on St. Thomas.
The Social Security Death Index, U.S.: 1937-1997 includes the names of
persons with the surname Vanderpool and Vanterpool who died in the USVI;
also, the state of New York.

Well known on St. Thomas, a Rupert Vanterpool, in the Vocational
Division, taught Practical Arts at the Charlotte Amalie High School.

Louise Daniel Hutchinson

[Richard Bond]

What I have been told regarding the name Vanterpool is that the name
is Dutch and that the family is among the oldest in the Virgin Islands.
It supposedly predates both the British and Danish settlements of the
Virgin Islands. The BVI was first settled by Dutch buccaneers
who hunted and fished, raised crops and took advantage of the shipping
traffic through the Anegada channel. They werent pirates exactly but
they did take advantage of ships that had just crossed the Atlantic by
providing food, water, pilots and salvaging ships that ran aground. As
the islands were settled by the British and develped agriculturally they
intergrated with the Anguillan Wild Irish and Quakers. Virgin Gorda was
the place with the strongest historical tie. They show up in all the
Virgins and also on the list of boatmen capture by Rodney at Statia in
1781 and the foreign immigrants to Puerto Rico in the mid 1800s

[Alan Vanterpool]

Hello Richard:

Your reply contains very useful information for me. I had come to the same
conclusion myself, i.e., that the Vanterpools (or names with more Dutch type
spelling) were early settlers in the British Virgin Islands. The earliest I
have come across there is Mary Vanderpool, widow of the Island Commander,
who married James Parke in 1754-08-31. Do you have any information on her?

The earliest Vanterpool I have is John Van ter Pool, living on St Eustatius
in 1781, "born in Spanish Town" - he is listed in the "Rodney Rolls."

But, there were also Van de Poele's on Saba in 1687-8 and 1699 (Maijken
vdp), on St Eustatius in 1717
(Daniel Van der Poel), and St. Maartin (Daniel Van der Poolen 1758, Jan Van
der Poolen 1748 and William Van der Poolen, jnr, 1719).

Do you have any written references to your information? Do you know where
one my get lists of early settlers in the British Virgin Islands? Do you
know where one can get lists of settlers in the new world who were
associated with the Dutch West Indies Comapny?

With best wishes for the New Year,

Alan Vanterpool,
Edmonton, AB, Canada

[Richard Bond]

Spanishtown is on Virgin Gorda. One source is "Tortola and the British
Virgin Islands" by Florence Lewisohn. She speaks of the early Dutch
settlers. Including Adrian Block. You might try the New York Historical
Society for the Dutch West Indies Co.

[Richard Bond]

[Richard Bond]

[Bruce Manson]

Alan,
I'm not sure if you are aware of the 1753 Bakers map of St Kitts. A copy
of it hangs on my wall and I notice a Samuel Vanderpoole with a
plantation just east of Fort Londonderry next to the plantations of Lord
Romney and Mathew Mills. There are two single storey buildings on it and
what looks like a tall store house (not too clear) but no windmill.

Regards,

Bruce Manson

In message <38701D14...@oanet.com>, Alan Vanterpool
<avt...@oanet.com> writes

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Bruce Manson