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- Mollendal mellom Fish Bay og Genti Bay syd på St. John ble solgt etter hans død. Muligens menes det også Sieben, den andre av hennes plantasjer, som var nærmeste nabo i vest, over Fish Bay. [3]
- "Handwritten plantation reports by Dr. D?Jurco Vriehuus, dated January 12, 1805. Setting aside descriptions of soil types, noxious insects (borer, blast, grub), and diseases (he was an MD as well as a planter), they read in part:
"We then head farther down the Road to the Mollendahl Estate, where the humid air is scented by abundant bay rum trees (Pimenta racemosa). The estate was named by Gerhardt Moll for his son, who was sent to Holland for his education. Gerhardt was blind; we know this because his wife Maria, who inherited the estate as guardian in 1754, tells us so in an inscription she had engraved on his gravestone in the STT Danish cemetery. Maria led a troubled life?her son died before reaching his majority, so she remarried, passing title of the lands to her second husband, Commandant John van John, a duplicitous type who died in office. She tried again with Captain Wencel Kass, with whom she had two daughters before the plantation was sold."" [3]
- Oppføring i "A list of The names of Inhabitants...":
"Kaas, Rodkirk died (40) 1.9.1770 (Watersot) marr. Maria von John 21.6.1765". Dødsdato er sammenfallende med "Werner Christian", men hustruen må være Maria Testemacher gift med Wentzel Rotkirch Kaas.
For øvrig står i samme kilde:
"Kaas, Winzel captain died 9.6.1792 St. Cr. mentioned (AArøe) 3.6.1764 St. Th. his daugther:
Malene Elisabeth bapt 1.12.1766 St. Th". [4]
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