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 1721 where he became governor of St. Thomas and St. John.[2]

Adam Levin Søbøtker painted by Jens Juel in 1792
Susanne S'b'ykrt, née van Beverhoudt

References
  1. "Huset og familien" (in Danish). Øregård Museum. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. "Johannes Søbøtker" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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