Jacob Peter Huydecoper (11 November 1811 – 12 February 1845) was an early 19th-century Elmina Euro-African civil servant and diplomat on the Dutch Gold Coast.
Huydecoper started his career in the colonial administration of the Dutch Gold Coast in July 1832, when he was installed as a provisional assistant at Elmina.
Huydecoper was charged with the recruitment of the so-called Belanda Hitam, Gold Coastan and Akan recruitments for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, at the Ashanti capital of Kumasi, between 1838 and 1842.
Huydecoper returned from Kumasi on 1 February 1842, and was honourably discharged of all his duties on 31 March 1842.
[1] Huydecoper is considered the initiator of the Methodist mission in Elmina, established in 1842, after he himself was converted to Christianity by The Reverend Thomas Birch Freeman when the latter was stationed at Kumasi in 1839.