Pieter van Helsdingen1

M, #15231, b. circa 1650

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Last Edited15/05/2015
Birth*Pieter van Helsdingen was born circa 1650.1
 
(Official) Travel After 16 February 1689,Claesje van Angola travelled from (Cape Town) to Suratte on the Wapen van Alkmaar to serve as midwife - vroetvrouw - to the pregnant wife of Pieter van Helsdingen. According to a resolution of the Kasteel Batavia she sought permission on the 27th May to return to the Cape with the first available return fleet. She also asked to be emancipated as this had been promised her by Van Helsdingen and this request was referred to the Commander at the Cape, who at the time was Simon van der Stel. This request was never approved because she died in the Slave Lodge in 1732.2 
Occupation* On 11 May 1697 Pieter van Helsdingen was the fiscal on the Zion.3 
Slave TransactionsOn 11 May 1697 Frans van Malabar and Candas van Pattana were sold by Pieter van Helsdingen to Albert Coopman, for Rds. 130.3
Slave EmancipationsOn 18 June 1686 Flora van Timor was emancipated by Pieter van Helsdingen, she was left at the Cape as a free person on condition that if her former master or a member of his family called at the Cape enroute back to Batavia, she would once again have to slave for them.4

Citations

  1. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.147.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  2. [S729] Webpage tanap.net (http://databases.tanap.net/cgh/) (Original records held by Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Roeland Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa) "Reference code: C. 20, pp. 46-47.
    Woensdag 16 Februarij 1689.

    In tegenwoordigheid van alle de leden, behalven mr. Dirk van Cuijk.

    Het versoek-schrivt van den E.Pieter van Helsdingen, gedesigneerde fiscâl ten dienste van d' E.Comp. na Suratta, thans op 't hier ter rhede geankerde schip 't Wapen van Alkmâr bescheiden, in Raade geleesen zijnde, inhoudende versoek om uijt 's Comps. slavenhuijs een slavinne genaamt Claasje tot vroetvrouw ten dienste van sijn swangere hujsvrouw na Batavia mede te mogen neemen. So is eenpaarig verstaan den suppt. syn versoek toe te staan en hem de voors. slavinne ten fine voorn. te laaten volgen, mits dat hij ter taxatie van de Hooge regering van India kost en vragt geld voor heen en weer reis in 's Comps. cassa op Batavia betaale, en de E.Comp. voor de schaade goedspreeke die deselve soude komen te lijden, indien de meergenoemde slavinne Claasje voor haar wederkomst kwame te sterven, of weg te loopen. [1]


    In 't Casteel de Goede Hoop aldus geärresteerd en beslooten ten dage en jaare als voren.
    S. v. STEL.
    ANDS. DE MAN.
    DOMINIQUE DE CHAVONNES.
    JACOB ROOTSTEEN.
    L. v. STEL.
    CORNELIS PTZ LINNES
    J. H. BLUM.
    Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.


    Notes.

    [1] Vgl. V.C.12: Dagregister, 1689-1690, 1692, pp. 124-125. Hierdie Claasje van Angola het volgens 'n resolusie van die Kasteel Batavia op 27 Mei 1689 versoek om met die eerste retoerskepe weer na die Kaap te mag terugkeer. Haar versoek om in vryheid gestel te mag word, omdat Van Helsdingen dit aan haar belowe het, is na die Kommandeur en Raad van die Kaap verwys. (Sien Kol. Arch. 604: Resolutiën van den Generaal en Raden, 1689, pp. 275-276."
  3. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 176. 11.5.1697, p. 166 (verso): Frans from Malabar (22/23) and Candas (female) from Pattana (14/15), sold by Pieter van Helsdingen, fiscal of the Zion, to sick-comforter Albert Coopmans for Rds. 130.
  4. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.147. 18.6.1686: Flora from Timor, left at the Cape as a free person by Pieter van Helsdingen on condition that if he or one of his family should call at the Cape on their way back to Batavia, the slave was to return to his service.
 

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