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Last Edited14/03/2019
ShipVoyage On 20 December 1681 the Vrijheid departed Batavia enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 25 March 1682. Among those on board was the politically significant convict Rebecca van Macassar.3,4 
ShipVoyage* On 9 March 1686 the Vrijheid departed Wielingen enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 23 June 1686. Among the passengers on board were Francois du Toit and Guillaume du Toit.5,6,7 

Citations

  1. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 1519.7 from Wielingen to Batavia

    Number     1519.7
    Name of ship     VRIJHEID
    Master     
    Tonnage     1210
    Type of ship     
    Built     1666
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Zeeland
    Date of departure     09-03-1686
    Place of departure     Wielingen
    Arrival at Cape     23-06-1686
    Departure from Cape     03-07-1686
    Date of arrival at destination     07-09-1686
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     Via S. Tiago.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     158          1     0     2     156
    Soldiers     107          1     7     2     111
    Passengers     13     0     2     0     0     11."
  2. [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.
  3. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 5759.5 from Batavia
    Number     5759.5
    Name of ship     VRIJHEID
    Master     Valk, Jakob
    Tonnage     1210
    Type of ship     
    Built     1666
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Zeeland
    Date of departure     20-12-1681
    Place of departure     Batavia
    Arrival at Cape     25-03-1682
    Departure from Cape     28-04-1682
    Date of arrival at destination     ± 30-08-1682
    Place of arrival     
    Chamber for which cargo is destined     Zeeland (280,449)
    Rotterdam (131,696)
    Delft (71,052)
    Amsterdam (717)
    Particulars     
    Previous outward voyage     1385.5
    On Board     I     II     III
    Seafarers     109                         
    Soldiers     32                         
    Impotenten     17                         
    Passengers     12.                         "
  4. [S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007), section on the princes of macassar, citing Letters despatched: Lijst … de … Macasarschen Princen C.501. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
  5. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 1303.1 from Wielingen to Tuticorin
    Number     1303.1
    Name of ship     AARDENBURG
    Master     
    Tonnage     482
    Type of ship     fluit
    Built     bought 1672
    Yard     Zeeland
    Chamber     Zeeland
    Date of departure     15-08-1675
    Place of departure     Wielingen
    Arrival at Cape     ± 23-01-1676
    Departure from Cape     14-02-1676
    Date of arrival at destination     17-05-1676
    Place of arrival     Tuticorin
    Particulars     The ship sank near Buton in August 1685.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Total     100     2.               "
  6. [S325] Lorna Newcomb and Ockert Malan, compilers, Annale van Nederduits Gereformeerde Moedergemeente Stellenbosch No 1.., CD-ROM (Stellenbosch) Die Genootskap vir die Kerkversameling, 2004 0-9584832-1-3), Baptism Register, Lorna: Guilliam du Toit kom na die Kaap met sy broer Francois in die `Vryheit' en land op 23.6.1686. 16.5.1688 trou "Guiliam du Toit vryborger aan Stellenbos jongman met Sara Cochet weduwe van Pieter de Klercq geboortigh van Ost Zouborgh." Hy boer op Aan 't Pad (Cloetesdal). Guilliam het 'n aktiewe rol in sy samelewing gespeel. Hy was diaken en ouderling van Stellenbosch kerk en het as heemraad gedien. Hy was 'n vurige teenstaander van WA van der Stel.. Hereinafter cited as Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  7. [S486] Colin Graham Botha, The French Refugees at the Cape (Cape Town: Cape Times Limited, 1921), p.91. du Toit, Francois of Ryssel (Lille) arrived in 1686 in the Vryhteit; ...du Toit, Guillaume of Ryssel, brother of the above. He probably came out at the same time, i.e., in 1686.. Hereinafter cited as The French Refugees at the Cape.
 

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