Although the island was then part of the Danish West Indies, there was a large, growing population of English, Irish, and Scots inhabitants.

[3] The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts funded the church in its first years; the group felt that Christianity in colonial areas was neglected and that morals of citizens there were too relaxed.

[4] Between 1765 and 1773, United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his family attended worship services here intermittently, as their residence was located nearby.

[5] The 1768 death of Hamilton's mother, Rachel Faucette, was recorded in St. John's burial registry; however, she was buried alongside relatives on Tuite's Grange Plantation, located outside of Christiansted.

Hamilton would later publish a recount of the hurricane's devastation in the Royal Danish American Gazette; it was this account that gained him enough recognition to enable him to enter high society and fund his education in the United States.

[4] The African diaspora made up a large part of St. John's congregation, and Black residents―both free and enslaved―worshipped alongside white residents.

However, worship services were segregated; Black worshippers had an allocated spot apart from their white counterparts and were unable to sit in the pews.

[4] However, their presence caused contention and pushback from white parishioners, and in 1810 the decision was reversed, barring Black worshippers from occupying any pew.

An account from the 1830s notes that Black attendees now had an allocated spot to worship but were still made to enter the church through a separate entrance from their white counterparts.

Over this period of reconstruction, the church flourished and membership jumped from 300 to 1500 worshippers; and by this time, the majority of attendees were Black Crucians.

[4] From the period following the restoration and fire, St. John's struggled financially, and local leadership was critical of the church's neglect of the Caribbean.

Additionally, emigration en masse to the United States caused Saint Croix's population to dwindle from 32,000 in 1803 to just 14,700 by 1917; so too did the congregation's membership suffer.

Still, St. John's continued to suffer from low financial support and declining membership; by 1940, 700 members remained, less than half of what it had been 20 years prior.

[4] On October 4, 2016, St. John's Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its rich multicultural heritage, architectural significance, and its association with Alexander Hamilton.