Adam Levin Søbøtker (3 August 1753 – 2 February 1823) was a Danish planter, landowner, colonial official and military officer in the

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. 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

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in the Danish West Indies. He was the son of Johannes Søbøtker (born 1724) and Else Nielsdatter. He owned the

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s of Constitution Hill and Høgensborg on

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. He married Susanne van Beverhoudt; the couple had one child, Johannes, who was sent to

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but returned to the islands in 1721 where he became governor of St. Thomas and St. John.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Soeboetker, Adam Levin 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