EENKAPENAAR ALS GOUVERNEUR-GENERAAL VAN SURINAME: J. F. DE FRIDERICI

One of the Governor-Generals of Surinam during the 18th century, J. F. De Friderici, was the son of an official of the Dutch East Indian Company, who served during twelve years in the Cape Colony. The boy who was born there, emigrated with his family to Surinam, where his father soon died. Governor W. Crommelin was his tutor, he had a brilliant military career, and became a major-general and Governor of the Dutch West Indian Colony. An extensive description of the festivities on occasion of his installation in 1792 is given. De Friderici capitulated when Great Britain sent a fleet to Paramaribo and offered its protectorate in 1799; he was maintained as a Governor, but when in 1802 the colony again became Dutch he was immediately suspended. He remained in Surinam as a planter and died in 1812, during another British occupation of the country. His last descendant bearing the name of De Friderici died there in 1903.