Jørgen Iversen Dyppel

Jørgen Iversen Dyppel (1638-1683), also called George Iversen , was the first governor of Saint-Thomas, in the the Danish Western Indies, of 1672 with 1680. It was born with Helsingør and was the son of a baker of the Sønderjylland.

After its studies, it went to the Western Indies to make trade with the British and Dutch colonists. It undergoes however losses because of British pirates and went back to Denmark in 1665.

It there Maria Birgitte Pedersdatter in 1670 and was named first governor of the island of Saint-Thomas in 1671 by the Danish Company of the Western Indies and of Guinea because of its experiment in the Western Indies. It took up duty on May 26th, 1672, on its arrival on the island, for a three years mandate.

At that time, Saint-Thomas had been left with the abandonment by the preceding English colonists and the first tasks of Dyppel consisted in organizing the clearings, building roads and plantations. It was a complicated company, in particular because of the difficulties of the Danish colonists of adapting to the climate, and of the wars free-Dutchwoman and anglo-Dutchwoman. Its mandate was extended and it obtained from the assistance of the established British colonists with Tortola. The war caused problems with the Dutch workers of the island and, on February 2nd, 1678, the island was attacked by the French who were pushed back.

The task to defend Saint-Thomas was difficult and, in September 1679, Dyppel asked to be replaced. He resigned officially on July 4th, 1680, yielding his function to Nicolai Esmit. On its return to Denmark, it went up quickly in rank within the Company and it was decided in 1682 qu ' it would turn over to Saint-Thomas to become again about it the governor. Before setting out again, it remaria with the niece of the mayor of Copenhagen Bartholomæus Jensen, its first wife having died in 1679.

It tested however difficulties of finding people of agreement to accompany it as colonists and had to be solved to take along prisoners with him, with the promise of freedom. During the voyage, these prisoners mutinèrent themselves and Dyppel was thrown over edge with one of his/her children. His wife survived and remaria with an owner of plantations of Saint-Thomas.

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