Zacharias Allewelt

[1][2] In 1725, he captained the galiot Den unge Jomfrue when it embarked on a trading voyage to the Guinea region of West Africa, where the slave ship purchased a group of African slaves and then transported them to and sold them in the Danish West Indies.

In 1733, he thus served as chief mate onboard Slesvig on the newly established company's second expedition to Canton.

[5] Allewelt married Gjertrud Andersdatter Dahll, a woman from Neskilen, in the village of Eydehavn in 1725.

[1] They lived alternately in Copenhagen and Allewelt's farm on Merdø island off the Arendal coast.

[6] In Canton, Zacharias Allewelt commissioned local "face-makers" to create two life-size clay busts of him; one is now kept at the Aust-Agder Cultural History Center in Arendal, Norway, and the other is located at the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark in Kronborg.