Johan Peter Testman

en nedenfor meddelte Avtobiografi tilhører Hr. Kaptejn P. O. Testman •og er meddelt Udgiveren af dennes Datter, Frøken C. Testman. Den ev indført i en Bog i Oktav, der tillige indeholder en Autobiografi af Johan Peter Testman, der var Dattersøn af Henrik Fuiren. https://archive.org/stream/personalhistori02juligoog/personalhistor...

Joh. Christopher a public trustee died 21.6.1798 and Madame died 25.12.1799 St. Cr.

• Johan Christopher Testman was born in Norway in about 1724.
• On 5 January 1773, he was living at 5 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• On 7 January 1777, he was living at 5/59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• On 6 January 1778, he was living at 59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• On 30 December 1779, he was living at 59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• On 2 January 1781, he was living alone at 59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• He was married, on 5 April 1783, in the St. Croix Lutheran Church to Andrea Cathrina Platfus, who was born in Copenhagen in about 1753. She was the widow of Christian Siegfried Hellevad.
• On 27 November 1783, he was living with his wife at 59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted.
• On 25 November 1784, he was living with his wife at 59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted. etc.

Johan Christian Testman, senior (1724 – 1797/1798):

Enslaved Persons:
59 Queen’s Street, Christiansted, 1781: Capables: 8; Children: 3 1783: Capables: 9; Children: 2 1784: Capables: 13; Children: 2 1786: Capables: 17; Children: 4 1797: Capables: 5 men, 5 women; half grown: 2 girls; children: 5 boys, 5 girls 1798: Capables: 1 man, 2 women; children: 3 boys, 4 girls

On 6 September 1780, he purchased a boy, named Helston, no. 342, from the Danish Frigate Ningo for 240 rd.

On 17 October 1781, he purchased a woman from the Danish Frigate Christiansborg, which arrived in Christiansted on 12 October 1781, for 260 rd. The frigate came from the non-Danish coast of West Africa. [She does not appear in the 1781 tax list, so she may have died.]