Maerten Jacobsz1

M, #13893, b. circa 1630

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Last Edited30/08/2015
BirthOrigin*Maerten was from Amsterdam and may have been born there circa 1630. His age is estimated.2 
Marriage*He married Cathalijntje Abrams circa 1659.1
 

Family

Cathalijntje Abrams b. c 1639
Child
Names in the record, in publications, etc.20 March 1656, the name of Maerten was written in the record as Maerten Jacobsz.2
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 20 March 1656 Maerten Jacobsz was enumerated in the muster roll, as an arquebusier.2
On 31 May 1657 Maerten Jacobsz was enumerated in the muster roll, as a arquebusier earning f 11 per month.3
In 1660 Maerten Jacobsz was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as of Amsterdam, master gardener.4
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusOn 15 May 1660, Maerten Jacobsz was granted a vrijbrief or letter of freedom which released him from his contractual obligations to the VOC and accorded him the status of vrijburgher or free burgher. He was recorded as a master gardener at the Fort.5

Citations

  1. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012. "Cornelis Jacobs son of Maarten Jacobs(sen) (from Amsterdam) & Cathalijntje Abra(ha)ms: (from Rijssel); dies in infancy Cape (8 January 1661).
    "Cornelis Martenssen, a child of the free gardener Marten Jacobssen [from Amsterdam] died at 9 o'clock in the evening"."
  2. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.284-286. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  3. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, pp.287-289.
  4. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.299.
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.269. Marten Jacobsz:, of Amsterdam, master gardener at the Fort. Granted 15th May., 1660.
 

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