Salomon Sweers

Salomon Sweers (15 June 1611 in Nijmegen – 2 March 1674 in Amsterdam) was a bookkeeper and a counsel for the Dutch East India Company.

Salomon Sweers was the son of Aernout Sweerts, a member of the vroedschap, and Alida van Bronckhorst.

In 1628 the family moved to Amsterdam, when his father became a representative in the East India Company.

Seventeen-year-old Salomon joined the East India Company VOC[clarification needed] as a clerk.

In 1649 Sweers bought a house on next to Johannes van Rensselaer, Patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck in the New Netherlands.

Aerial view of southern part of Sweers Island, 2009