Adam Levin Søbøtker
Adam Levin Søbøtker (3 August 1753 – 2 February 1823) was a Danish planter, landowner, colonial official and military officer in the Danish West Indies. He was for a while the largest landowner on the islands and was the father of Johannes Søbøtker. Søbøtker was third generation of a family of planters in the Danish West Indies.[1] He was the son of Johannes Søbøtker (born 1724) and Else Nielsdatter. He owned the slave plantations of Constitution Hill and Høgensborg on Saint Croix. He married Susanne van Beverhoudt; the couple had one child, Johannes, who was sent to Copenhagen but returned to the islands in 1821 where he became governor of St. Thomas and St. John.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Huset og familien" (in Danish). Øregård Museum. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ "Johannes Søbøtker" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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- 1753 births
- 1823 deaths
- 18th-century Danish businesspeople
- 19th-century Danish businesspeople
- Danish planters
- 19th-century Danish landowners
- Danish slave owners
- Danish sugar industry businesspeople
- People from the Danish West Indies
- 18th-century Danish farmers
- 19th-century Danish farmers
- Sugar plantation owners