Jacob de Jong

Jacob de Jong was an acting Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was appointed on 26 February 1752 and was Governor until 10 September 1752. He was succeeded by Joan Gideon Loten.[1]

Jacob de Jong
Acting Governor of Ceylon
In office
26 February 1752 – 10 September 1752
Preceded byGerard Joan Vreeland
Succeeded byJoan Gideon Loten
Personal details
BornMannar, Sri Lanka

De Jong was born in Mannar, Sri Lanka as the son of Jacob de Jong Senior, from Veere and in 1722 Commandeur of Jaffna, and Johanna Pasque de Chavonnes, from Hulst. He worked his way up in the Dutch East India Company. He served as special commissioner at the pearl fishery in 1722 and as Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Kandy in 1736. He was promoted to Commandeur' of Galle in 1742 and, like his father, to Commandeur of Jaffna in 1748, before acting as Governor of Ceylon during an interregnum. He was married four times, his first wife, Elizabeth Mooyaart, dying in Galle in October 1747.[2] His fourth wife, Cornelia Schokman, remarried as widow in 1765.

References
  1. Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  2. S.A.W. Mottau, "Galle Two Centuries Ago", Memoir by Jacob de Jong, Commandeur of Galle, for his successor, 18 May 1748.
Government offices
Preceded by
Gerard Joan Vreeland		 Governor of Ceylon
1752-1752		 Succeeded by
Joan Gideon Loten
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