Sheriff of St. Thomas, St. Thomas Police Office: Police journals

Description

This archive series contains journals from the St. Thomas Police office, 1804-1891. The police journal was a daily report in which the officers recorded everything that took place at the police office including all reports filed. For instance, if enslaved workers filed a complaint against their overseer for maltreatment, if there was a brawl in a rum shop or if dead dogs had been found in town. Consequently, the police journals offers information on daily life, especially in the towns, and on what people in general regarded as a matter for the authorities.

The transcription of the police journals takes a different form than that of for instance the tax records. In this case, we ask for a full text transcription, meaning that the entire text must be transcribed, not just names, places and dates.

You find the specific transcription guide for this series here: https://www.sa.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/police-court-proceedings-and-police-journals.pdf

The image is a detail of a painting showing the harbor of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, c. 1881. At the center is Fort Christian, which from the 1870s housed the police office. Original held at the Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore, image no. 000035621.

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Danish West Indies

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1804 - 1812 67 Klar til indtastning 66 159 291 Klar til indtastning 0 0 293
1812 - 1821 369 Klar til indtastning 0 4 373 Klar til indtastning 0 0 373
1825 - 1826 130 Klar til indtastning 0 5 135 Klar til indtastning 0 0 135
1827 - 1829 291 Klar til indtastning 0 4 295 Klar til indtastning 0 0 295
1829 - 1832 282 Klar til indtastning 0 6 288 Klar til indtastning 0 0 288
1832 - 1838 342 Klar til indtastning 0 10 352 Klar til indtastning 0 0 352
1838 - 1842 222 Klar til indtastning 0 4 226 Klar til indtastning 0 0 226
1844 - 1848 230 Klar til indtastning 0 7 237 Klar til indtastning 0 0 237
1854 - 1857 92 Klar til indtastning 0 6 98 Klar til indtastning 0 0 98
1858 - 1863 288 Klar til indtastning 0 15 303 Klar til indtastning 0 0 303
1863 - 1876 289 Klar til indtastning 0 8 297 Klar til indtastning 0 0 297
1876 - 1883 300 Klar til indtastning 0 9 309 Klar til indtastning 0 0 309
1883 - 1891 269 Klar til indtastning 0 43 312 Klar til indtastning 0 0 312