Adam Levin Søbøtker


Adam Levin Søbøtker was a Danish estate owner, regeringsråd and General War Commissioner in the Danish West Indies. He was for a while the largest landowner on the islands and was the father of Johannes Søbøtker.

Biography

Søbøtker was third generation of a family of estate owners in the Danish West Indies. He was the son of Johannes Søbøtker and Else Nielsdatter.
He owned the estates Constitution Hill and Høgensborg on St. Croix. He married Susanne van Beverhoudt. They had one child, Johannes Søbøtker who was sent to Copenhagen but returned to the islands in 1721 where he became governor of St. Thomas and St. John.