He was one of the longest-serving Director-General of the Dutch Gold Coast, in office between 1767 and 1769 (ad interim) and from 1769 until his death in 1780.
[2] Pieter Woortman was born in Soest, Brandenburg-Prussia, to Johann Georg Wortmann and Margaretha Elisabeth Plange.
[4] Woortman settled in Groningen, set up a grocery store, married Elisabeth Carrier, and founded a family.
Here he cassared a local African woman named Afodua or Aphodewa, with whom he would have six children.
Their offspring in male line in Ghana still carries the name Woortman.