Sint Eustatius Genealogy

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Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records of Sint Eustatius (aka Statia).

See also Netherlands Antilles (dissolved in 2010).

Sovereignty
The Netherlands, England, and France were especially active in seeking to control the extremely prosperous trading center of Sint Eustatius. Twenty-two flag changes occurred between the first European settlement sponsored by the Dutch West India Company (1636) and final hand-off to the Netherlands in 1784. Some of the time the island was a neutral port. Two of the more interesting flag changes happened during the invasion by the British in February 1781 as retaliation for helping to arm American revolutionaries, and invasion by the French in November 1781.

Did you know?

 * Sint Eustatius played a pivital role in the American War for Independence. She provided the first official recognition of American independence, nearly half of all U.S. military supplies, and the British invasion of Sint Eustatius and subsequent delay of the British Navy in Sint Eustatius directly resulted in the dominance of the French naval blockade and victory of the American Army at the final Battle of Yorktown.


 * That on this island you can find the University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine

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