Twed, Jens

Born ?. Died 1757 on the Nicobar Islands (Møller 1797)

Timeline

1734 - Employed by the Asiatic Company and travelled to India on the ship Cronprintzen af Danmark (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1736 - Appointed as underkonstabel (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1737 - Appointed overkonstabel (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1751 - May, Twed applied to be demissioned, and leave India (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1752 - Appointed interimssekonde on the factory Calicut and sailed there on the English ship Malmoody (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1756 - Moved to the factory College (Larsen Ostindiske Personalia)

1757 - As underofficer, Twed was named opperhoved for the new Danish colony on the Nicobar Islands (VGK 6,Struwe, 232). Møller writes of how Twed brought much tobacco and many textiles that were given to the inhabitants of the islands, which made it difficult for Lund, Christian Frederik to do any trade with them afterwards, where they only wanted "guns and iron". Møller also refers to Twed as an old man who had a problem with drink (Møller 1797 500-501)

1757 - Died 18 days upon his arrival to the Nicobar Islands. The men he had brought with him were all ill upon arrival (Møller 1797, 500)