Choa Chong Long

Choa Chong Long (born circa 1788 in Malacca) the distinguished son of Kapitan Chua Su Cheong,^[1] a Kapitan China under the Dutch,^[2] ventured to Singapore, but unlike most of the Chinese and Malays who went there to seek their fortune, Choa Chong Long was already rich. His daughter married Kiong Kong Tuan.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

He was an opium farmer.^[8][9] The earliest on the island and its last as well.

He was thought to be one of the first Chinese to manage a plantation in Singapore.^[10]

He was an early Chinese shopkeeper.^[11]

He celebrated his forty-fourth birthday by giving a grand dinner to which all influential residents of the island, including many Europeans, were invited.^[12]

Dying in 1838, he left a will containing "a devise for ever of certain properties for sinchew (ancestral worship) purposes which was eventually declared void.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]}

He died in China.

References

1. A gallery of Chinese kapitans - Page 4 - by Choon San Wong - Foreign Language Study - 1963
2. Karya lengkap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi, Volume 2 By Amin Sweeney ISBN 979-9100-46-1, ISBN 978-979-9100-46-7
3. One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore by Ong Siang Song
4. Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control By Carl A. Trocki Published by Routledge, 2006 ISBN 0-415-26385-9, ISBN 978-0-415-26385-6; pp. 17
5. The Straits Settlements, 1826-67: Indian Presidency to Crown Colony By Constance Mary Turnbull Published by Athlone Press, 1972; pp. 31, 33, 415
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8. Opium and empire: Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 Asia, east by south (Food Systems and Agrarian Change) by Carl A. Trocki, Published by Cornell University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8014-2390-2, ISBN 978-0-8014-2390-1
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11. SPAFA journal: a publication of the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA)., Volumes 11-12 by SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (Bangkok, Thailand)
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13. The study of Chinese society: essays By Maurice Freedman, George William Skinner published by Stanford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-8047-0964-5, ISBN 978-0-8047-0964-4
14. Chinese law and custom in Hong Kong - Page 141 - 1953
15. A selection of oriental cases decided in the Supreme courts of the Straits' Settlements by Straits Settlements. Supreme Court, Robert Carr Woods, Compiled by Robert Carr Woods, Published and Printed for private circulation, 1869
16. Cases heard and determined in Her Majesty's Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements 1808-1890, Volume 1, by James William Norton-Kyshe, Straits Settlements. Supreme Court published by Singapore and Straits Printing Office, 1885
17. Journal of Southeast Asian history - Page 69 - by University of Malaya (Singapore). Dept. of History - History - 1962
18. A cycle of Chinese festivities by WONG Choon San, published by Malaysia Pub. House, 1967

See also

• Holding the Fort: Melaka Under Two Flags, 1795-1845 by Brian Harrison - Malacca (Malacca) - 1985 - Page 145

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2. Physical adjustments in a changing landscape: the Singapore story By Avijit Gupta, John Pitts published by Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, 1992 ISBN 9971-69-172-8, ISBN 978-9971-69-172-1
3. Stories of early Singapore By Harold Frank Pearson, University of London Press, 1954
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