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Tobias van Iddekinge

1582–1663WIC director · WIC principal shareholder

Life

  1. 1582
    Born
  2. after 1622
    Seat of the WIC Stad en Lande chamber in the West-Indisch Huis on the Munnekeholm: office, archive and meetings (from 1622 until the dissolution of the WIC) (Bewindhebber)
  3. 1628–1641
    Sworn council (gezworen meente) (1628-1629, 1631-1632, 1634, 1640-1641)
    [1]probably
  4. 1628–1653
    Guild court magistrate (gildrechtsheer) (1628, 1632-1633, 1636, 1638, 1653)
    [1]probably
  5. 1628–1658
    Councillor (1628, 1645, 1648-1649, 1651-1652, 1654-1655, 1657-1658)
    [1]probably
  6. 1629–1653
    Sworn inspector (gezworen keurheer) (1629-1630, 1635-1636, 1638, 1642, 1645, 1653)
    [1]probably
  7. 1631–1663
    Director of the WIC (Stad en Lande chamber)
  8. 1633–1653
    Orphan master (weesheer) (1633-1634, 1636-1637, 1653)
    [1]probably
  9. 1635
    Treasurer (busheer) of the guild court (gildrecht)
    [1]probably
  10. 1635–1642
    Council inspector (raadskeurheer) (1635-1636, 1639, 1642)
    [1]probably
  11. 1635–1644
    Spokesman (taalman) of the sworn council (gezworen meente) (1635, 1637-1638, 1643-1644)
    [1]probably
  12. 1638
    Admiralty at Dokkum
    [1]probably
  13. 1639–1644
    Provincial audit office (rekenkamer)
    [1]probably
  14. from 1643
    Principal shareholder of the WIC Stad en Lande chamber (list of 1643, city resident); also principal shareholder of the Amsterdam chamber
  15. 1645
    Delegate (with Haellewijn and Hage) to advise the Heren XIX, according to the catalogue on the trade in enslaved Africans
    [1]probably
  16. 1653–1656
    Provincial Executive (Gedeputeerde Staten) (for the city) (1653, 1656)
    [1]probably
  17. 1658–1662
    Burgomaster (1658, 1661-1662)
    [1]probably
  18. 1659–1663
    Headman (hoofdman) (1659-1660, 1663)
    [1]probably
  19. 1663
    Died

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