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List of colonial governors of the Dutch Gold Coast

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There are many lists available of Director-Generals of the Gold Coast in service of the Dutch West India Company, all with slightly conflicting names and dates. The most accurate information is available for the eighteenth century, as Harvey Feinberg compiled a list of Director-Generals of that
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on 1 January 1792. The last Director-General installed by the Dutch West India Company, Jacobus de Veer, became the first Director-General under the direct authority of the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Republic was succeeded by the
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on 3 June 1621, Dutch traders nominally were at the direct control of the Dutch government. Initially, the regulation of trade was left to the traders themselves, but after the building of
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The Dutch West India Company was dissolved in 1791, and its colonies reverted to the rule of the States-General of the
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proclaimed in 1815, until the cession of the possessions on the Gold Coast to the United Kingdom in 1872.
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Een woord aangaande de vraag: "Wat moet Nederland doen met zijne bezittingen ter kuste van Guinea?"
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at Mouri in 1612, a general was installed to administrate the new colony.
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Although the Kingdom of Holland was incorporated into the
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century on the basis of day registries available at the
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Dutch West India Company liquidated 31 December 1791
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Lists of Dutch colonial governors and administrators
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Index

List of colonial heads of the Dutch Gold Coast
Dutch Gold Coast
Director-General
Dutch
Governor-General
Commandant-General
Governor-General
Commander
Governor
Dutch West India Company
Fort Nassau
Jacob Adriaensz Clantius
A.J. Roest
Arent Jacobzen van Amersfoort

Jacob Ruychaver

Jan Valkenburgh

Dirck Wilre


Jan Pranger


Nationaal Archief
Arent Jacobsz. van Amersfoort
Jan Jochemsz. Sticker
Pompeius de la Sale
Nicolaes van Yperen

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