4034 (1694-1695)
Part of the floorplan for the newly proposed hospital.
This volume contains papers and letters for the period 1694 to 1695 and were received in the year 1695.
- The Daghregister has two folios numbered 144. Several notable incidents were recorded, amongst others:
- fo. 111. The captain of the English ship Josias (Joshua) complains how a black boy on his ship, who was not a slave and entrusted with his goods, stole gold and gems worth 600 guilders and escaped the ship during the night.
- fo.126. Catrijna Backers of Enschede, wife of Laurens Pieters, is apprehended as a stow-away on the ship Ridderschap. She was disguised in male clothing intending to make her way to Batavia. She is charged on the same day for fleeing and theft. She claims to flee the continual violence and abuse by her husband. She is sentenced to be severely flogged and imprisoned in a women's institute for fifty years, working for the public works. She is also to pay a fine of one hundred 'Reals of Eight', plus costs due to the court.
- fo. 131. A fire broke out in a freeman's horse stable which then spread to several other freemen's houses which were all destroyed in the fire. Five horses lost their lives.
- fo. 136. Joseph van Batavia, a seventeen year old slave, was sentenced to be severely flogged, branded and put in chains for the theft of gold and silver articles from the house of Theunis Dircksz van Schalckwijk whilst helping to save furniture from the fire of the fourth of February.
- fos. 145-155. Publication of an extensive Plakkaatboek with many decrees covering ten folios.
- fo. 163. Mention is made of a flu or cold virus going around affecting the general population, with many sick, and as many as half the company's slaves sick in bed. News comes in that a good hot-water spring has been discovered close by.
- fo. 164. The flu virus is still very active and a freeman's wife and child reportedly died as a result. Johannes Pretorius, borgerraad, also dies as result of the 'flu'.
- fo. 168. A freeman, Hendrik Persijn, died of wounds sustained from an attack by a leopard. On the seventeenth Jan Herbst, a freeman from Stellenbosh, is reported to have been attacked by a lion. He is still alive but not expected to survive.
- fo. 169. During the night, thieves attempted to break into the house of Jans Stevensz Botma but were unsuccessful. Several people were arrested.
- fo. 174. A small fleet of homeward-bound English ships; Charles the Second, Modena, Samson and Samuel, unexpectedly departed without notifying the authorities. At the same time, a group of unknown men violently robbed a free-black fisherman on the beach of his day's catch and subsequently escaped to one of the departing English ships.
- fo. 175. During the night the body of a slave child was discovered near a freeman's house. After an inquest by the fiscal and delegates, it was concluded that the child had died of disease.
- fos. 181-187. Comprehensive instructions to the captain and council of the ship De Tamboer, concerning the slave trade on Madagascar and subsequent transport to Ceylon.
- fos. 204-206. Sentencing of Bastian van Bengalen, slave of Gerard van der Bijl for theft, and Catharina van Bengalen and her husband Andries Voermeester for receiving and possession of stolen goods.
- fo. 208. A posse comprising of freemen and company employees assembled to go out and search for a group of about twenty run-away slaves and fugitives.
- fo. 209. A young manumitted free-black confessed to having had intercourse with a fourteen year old girl of Dutch parents and getting her pregnant.
- fo. 212. A summons was issued against the fugitive soldier and cowherd, Jan Hendrik Schoonhek of Garlen, to report to the Court of Justice at the Castle of Good Hope within three times twenty-four hours. He is a suspect in the murder of a fellow soldier, Jacobus Jansen of Campen, on the outpost 'De Bottellerije'. A reward of twenty-five Rixdollars is offered for any information leading to his apprehension or arrest.
- Folios 238 to 240 depict the proposed building plans for renovations to part of the Castle of Good Hope.
- Folio 249 depicts a building plan for the newly proposed hospital.
- Folios 490 to 491 contain the expense accounts of eight ships, spread over nine unnumbered folios.
- Folios 569 to 571 were not bound in the correct order. They are bound in the following order: 571, 569 and 570.
The archives have added a note to this inventory which reads: "Fol. 238: gefacsimileerd in Grote Atlas van de Oost-Indische Compagnie deel VII p. 396; Fol. 239: gefacsimileerd in Grote Atlas van de Oost-Indische Compagnie deel VII p. 396". This note refers to the floorplans for the new hospital on folios 238 and 239, which have been incorporated into an atlas compiled by the archives.
The Nationaal Archief has kindly supplied us with links to this atlas which is available as both digital images and as PDF files. They can be found in archive number 2.14.97 'Inventaris van een gedeelte van het archief van het Nationaal Archief, vanaf 2002', inventory number 11.7 'Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch East India Company - Volume VII: Oost-Azië, Birma tot Japan = East Asia, Burma to Japan & supplement 2010' for the digital images and number 11.7ED for the PDF files. Page 396 which is referred to in the note, can be found on image 400 of the digital images.
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... | Register der brieven en papieren van de Cabo de Bonne Esperance overgekomen in den jaere 1695Tweede Deel | 6 |
1...3 | Origineel register | 11 |
4...65 | Originele missive door den Raed Extraord:s en Gouverneur Simon van der Stell en den Raed in 't Fort de Goede Hoope, aen de Vergaderingh der Heeren Seventiene gesz: in dato 9 May 1695, met een p:t schriptum | 18 |
66...67 | Dito missive als vooren in dato 11 May 1695 | 80 |
68... | Dito missive van deselve aen de Heeren Bewinthebberen ter Camer Amsterdam in dato 9 May 1695 | 83 |
69...72 | Copie missive door den Gouverneur Generael en de Raeden van India, aen den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance geschreven in dato 4 February 1695 | 84 |
73...101 | Dito missive van het Opperhooft Roeloff Deodati en den Raed op 't Eylant Mauritius aen den Gouverneur Generael en de Raden van India in dato 2 July 1694 | 89 |
102...109 | Copie rapport door Jeremias Brons aen den Gouverneur Generael en de Raden van Indien overgegeven wegens den sleghten uytslagh der slaven handel aen 't Eylant Madagascar, met het jaght De Stantvastigheyt gedaen in dato 14 Janua: 1695 | 121 |
110...219 | Daghregister gehouden aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance, beginnende met p:mo January en eyndigende ult:mo December 1694 | 131 |
220...221 | Memorie der persoonen dewelke door den Gouverneur van der Stel toegestaen is, haere soldy reecq:e met procuratie naer 't vaderlant te senden | 245 |
222... | Authenticq extract uyt d' instructie by d' Heer van Mydrecht L:M:, aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance gelaten, spreeckende van de situatie des Casteels, timmeringh van koorn packhuysen, wooninge etc:a in dato 16 July 1685 | 247 |
223... | Extract uyt de resolutie by den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance over eenige versoghte verversinge voor de aenwesende Fransche schepen genomen in dato 16 Juny 1687 | 249 |
224... | Extract uyt een missive door den Heer van Mydrecht L:M: uyt Nagapatnam aen den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Caep geschreven wegens de fortificatie en 't onthael der Franschen aldaer in dato 19 December 1687 | 251 |
225...227 | Extract uyt de missive door den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance aen de Vergaderingh der Heeren Seventiene in dato 26 April 1688 geschreven, nopende de aenkomst van eenige Fransche schepen aldaer, mitsgaeders het onthael aen deselve gedaen | 255 |
228...229 | Extract uyt de resolutie by den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Caap genomen in dato 19 May 1688 wegens het beeltenis van de Coninck van Vranckryck, dat uijt desselfs naem aen de Gouverneur voorn:t is vereert | 259 |
230...231 | Extract resolutie als vooren in dato 3 April 1691 spreeckende dat de houtkappers alle jaeren 3000 stx: jonge eyckeboomen in 's Comp:s bosch moeten planten | 261 |
232...234 | Extract uyt de missive door den Gouverneur en den Raed aen de Caap, aen de Vergaderingh der Heeren Seventiene geschreven in dato 12 April 1693, dienende tot verantwoordinge wegens 't onthael der Fransche aldaer | 263 |
235...237 | Copie verklaringh van de baas metselaer en timmerman wegens de bouwvalligheit van de Gouverneurs iude wooningh in 't Fort de dato 26 April 1695 | 267 |
238...240 | Twee affteeckeninge van de platte gront van 't nieuwe gebouw aen de Caap met desselfs descriptie | 272 |
241...244 | Copie beedighde verklaringh der officieren soo militaire als burgere, in actuele dienst aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance geweest ten tyde van 't aenwesen der Fransche schepen a:o 1687 tot derergie van den Gouverneur verleent in dato 5 May 1695 | 280 |
245...246 | Dito verklaringh van den opperchirurgyn aen de Caap, raekende de constitutie van 't sieckenhuys aldaer, ten behoeve als vooren verleent, in dato 5 May 1695 | 284 |
247... | Specificatie der verstreckingh aen 't hospitael aen de Caap sedert a:o 1665 tot 1694 gedaen | 287 |
248... | Als vooren aen de passerende schepen sedert 1665 tot 1694 gedaen | 289 |
249... | Project van een nieuwe hospitaal aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance | 290 |
250...253 | Twee stx: copie beedighde verklaringe van Jan Hendrick de Beer, tuynier aen de Caap wegen den aenteel van vrught- en eycke boomen | 291 |
254...256 | Copie beedighde verklaringh van Hendrick Barentsz Oldenlant baes thuynier en geswooren landmeter aen de Caap wegens de aenteelt als vooren | 295 |
257...487 | Extracten uyt de brieven, behelsende ordres die door de Heeren Bewinthebberen syn gegeven sedert den jaere 1651 tot April 1690. In margine wat daer op is gedaen off naegelaten, synde voor aen gevoeght een register om ieder ordre op zyn letter te komen vinden | 299 |
488... | Extract uyt het soldyboeck van de Caap, waerby blyckt dat den predicant Leonardus Terwolt den 20 Aug: 1693 met Mydreght van daer na Batavia is vertrocken | 543 |
489... | Extract uyt de missive door den Gouverneur Generael en Raeden van Indien aen die van de Caap in dato 8 December 1693, wegens het verlossen naer het vaderlant van voorn:e predicant | 545 |
490...491 | Onkost reeckeningen van de schepen, de welke successivelyck nae 't vertreck der eerste retourvloot aen de Caap syn aengeweest | 547 |
492... | Memorie van eenige cadjangh en ryst aen de Caap uyt het retourschip De Spiegel gelight | 556 |
493... | Dito van de rocken en laersen aen de laeste retourschepen nae 't vaderlant medegegeven | 557 |
494... | Cognoscement van een legger Caapse wyn in het retourschip De Spiegel geladen, en geconsigneert aan de Vergaderingh dre Heeren Seventiene | 558 |
495... | Copie verklaringh van de opperhoofden van 't schip Sir Jans Lant, komende uyt het vaderlant, hoe dat omtrent het land vande Caap een vreemt vaertuygh hadde gesien | 560 |
496... | Dito verklaringh van de opperhoofden van de retourschepen De Spiegel en 't Huys ten Duyne over het selfde subject | 562 |
497...499 | Missive door den schipper en ondercoopman van 't schip Spaer gesz: aen de Heeren Bewinthebberen ter Camer Amsterdam van 't Eylant Tercera in dato 26 May 1694 met een postscriptum uyt de Tafel Bhay aen de Cabo de Bonne Esperance in dato 28 Nov: 1694 | 564 |
500... | Onkost reecq:e van voorn: schip geduyrende het legge aen 't Eylant Tercera | 568 |
501...516 | Diversche stucken, soo resolutie in den scheeps raed van 't voorn: schip Spaere getrocken, rakende het rebelleren van eenigh volck, verklaringe 't haren laste, de sententie daer op gevolght, en aen 't voorn:e Eylant geexecuteert | 569 |
517... | Originele missive door den schipper van 't schip De Voetboogh aen de Heeren Bewinthebberen van de Camer Amsterdam ten ancker leggende voor de Caap in dato 16 April 1695 | 591 |
518...519 | Originele missive door den schipper en de ondercoopman van 't schip De Waelstroom aen als vooren in dato 8 May 1695 | 593 |
520...521 | Originele missive door den fiscael Arnout van Alsem, en den schipper van 't schip Sir Jans Lant aen als vooren in dato 7 May 1695 | 596 |
522... | Register der papieren | 598 |
523...532 | Originele missive door den Gouverneur Simon van der Stel en den Raed aen de Caap aen: Vergaderingh van de Seventiene gesz: in dato 14 Novemb: 1695 | 599 |
533...536 | Copie missive als vooren in dat 28 Mey 1695 | 611 |
537...538 | Dito missive als vooren in dato 16 Juny 1695 | 615 |
539...552 | Copie missive door 't Opperhooft Roeloff Deodati en Raed op Mauritius aen den Gouverneur en Raed aan de Caep gesz: in dato 30 7ber 1695 | 617 |
553...554 | Dito missive door 't Opperhooft Deodati particulier aen deselve in dato als vooren | 631 |
555...568 | Originele missive door den voorn:e Gouverneur van der Stel en Raed aen de Caep, aen de Vergaderingh van de Seventiene geschreven in dato 23 January 1696 | 633 |
569...571 | Dito missive als vooren in dato 5 Febry: 1696 | 647 |
572... | Copie missive door de opperhoofden van eenige uytgaende schepen aen de Camer Amsterdam gesz: in dato ... Janry: 1696 | 625 |
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