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Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper

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247:. Despite this being a principal fort (its head being a chief merchant like in Accra), trade with the hinterland was hindered by local warfare. However, Huydecoper's prestige with the administrators of the Dutch West India Company began to rise as his reports were of higher quality than those of the other members of the Council. This created so much rivalry that after Erasmi's death in 1764, Huydecoper succeeded only just in convincing the directors back in Holland to appoint him as director-general. Between September 1764 and June 1767, Huydecoper was 185:, one of five constituent admiralties of the Dutch Navy, and Sara Maria van Asch van Wijk (1691-1728), who died in the year he was born. The young Huydecoper was then brought to his godparents, Pieter Theodoor van Herzeele and his wife, in 236:, where he was stationed. After the death of Director-General Lambert Jacob van Tets, Huydecoper was interim Director-General (so-called President of the Council) of the Gold Coast between March 1759 and March 1760. 259:
Huydecoper had three relationships with local women when he was stationed at the Gold Coast. In 1758 he married the Afro-European woman Penni Raems. They had two children:
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Huydecoper failed to convince the West India Company's directors back in Holland to appoint him as director-general. The new director-general, David Pieter Erasmi, sent to
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Willem Pieter Cornelis Christiaan Huydecoper (1763–1799) founded the (African) Huydecoper dynasty, which would become a prominent Elmina
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Huydecoper had a reputation for being a rake and was more occupied with women than with more serious business. After moving to
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to Adriaan Huydecoper (1693-1740), chief commissioner of the navy depot at Hellevoetsluis, the port of call of the
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in 1752, Huydecoper was so much indebted by 1756 that he decided to employ himself with the
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Vriendschap en de kunst van het overleven in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw
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between 1759 and 1760 (ad interim) and from 1764 until his death in 1767.
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Huydecoper had another son with a local woman named Johanna:
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Huydecoper also had a son with a local woman named Abeba:
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Index

Director-General of the Dutch Gold Coast
Pieter Woortman
Hellevoetsluis
Netherlands
Elmina
Dutch Gold Coast
Dutch West India Company
Director-General of the Dutch Gold Coast
Hellevoetsluis
Admiralty of the Maze
Utrecht
Latin school
Amsterdam
Geneva
Dutch West India Company
Dutch Gold Coast
Fort George
Elmina
Fort Crevecoeur
Accra
Fort St Anthony
Axim
Director-General of the Gold Coast
mulatto
Willem Huydecoper
Jacob Huydecoper


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