do so were fined the sum of twenty-five pounds of tobacco. 2. Non-Danish-speaking persons were also required to attend worship at the Fort on Sunday afternoons. Those who did not attend were also fined twenty-five pounds of tobacco. 3. The head of each household was expected to encourage his servants to be religious. Those who permitted their servants to do work on Sunday that could have been done on Saturday were fined fifty pounds of tobacco for each offense. 4. The head of each household was required to maintain for himself and for others in his employ a specified amount of weapons and ammunition to help defend the colony against armed enemy attacks. Those who neglected to do so were fined one hundred pounds of tobacco. 5. Colonists were required to be alert and to be ready and available to defend the colony against armed attacks. Those who were found to be neglecting required and specified assignments were fined twenty-five pounds of tobacco for each offense. 6. Anyone found leaving the Island without permission from the governor was fined five hundred pounds of tobacco. Anyone found aiding another to leave was fined one thousand pounds of tobacco as well as being held responsible for all the debts and other liabilities of the person that was aided to leave. 7. Servants who unlawfully left their master's service were required to work additional time depending on the length of their absence. 8. Masters were forbidden to permit their black servants or slaves to leave their estates after sunset without good cause. 9. Any colonist who found a strange black person at night-time on his estate was required to catch him or her and take the person to Fort Christian the following morning for punishment.3 The Orders of Governor Jorgen Iversen shed light on some of the objectives, challenges and fears of the earliest Danish settlement. There was a strong emphasis on religious worship and piety. There was a pervasive fear of armed attack from