Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker1

M, #15343, b. circa 1620

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Last Edited03/01/2016
Birth*Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker was born circa 1620.1,2
 
Occupation* On 23 April 1661 Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker was ship's Master.1 
(Master) ShipVoyage On 15 June 1661 the Nachtigal departed Vlie for the second time after returning earlier from an apparently aborted voyage. On the second attempt the vessel stopped over for ten days (between 12 and 22 August) at Cap Vert (now Dakar, Senegal) enroute to the Cape where it docked on 17 January 1662. The master was Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker, who at Cap Vert, had acquired the slave Jan Vos.3 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.27 January 1662, the name of Fijaart was written in the record as Tjaert Meijndetsz Backer.4
Slave TransactionsOn 27 January 1662 Jan Vos was sold by Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker to Bartholomeus Borns.5,6,7

Citations

  1. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0949.1 from Vlie to Pulicat
    Number     0949.1
    Name of ship     NACHTEGAAL
    Master     Bakker, Fijaart Meindertsz.
    Tonnage     80
    Type of ship     galjoot
    Built     1660
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     23-04-1661
    Place of departure     Vlie
    Arrival at Cape     17-01-1662
    Departure from Cape     31-01-1662
    Date of arrival at destination     02-06-1662
    Place of arrival     Pulicat
    Particulars     On 15-06-1661 for the second time from the Vlie. Via Cape Verde (12 till 22-08) and Saldanha Bay (06-12-1661 till 10-01-1662). Wrecked off Ceram, 09-02-1665.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     20     4               24
    Soldiers                              25. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  2. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide - Based on his occupation as a skipper in 1661.
  3. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "17 January 1662: Nachtigal [Nachtegaal] - galjoot en route to Paliacatta [Pulicat] stopping at Cap Vert (12-22 August 1661) brings 1 slave ex Cap Vert, Senegal
    Jan Vos van Cabo Verde [sic - Cap Vert] [sold (27 January 1662) by Fijaart Meijnderts Bakker to free-burgher Bartholomeus Borns (from Waerden [Friesland].)]"
  4. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 27.1.1662     CTD I, p.307
    Tjaert Meijndertsz Backer, …. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  5. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 27.1.1662     CTD I, p.307
    Tjaert Meijndertsz Backer, skipper van die galjoot De Naghtegael, verkoop aan Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vryburger, die ‘Cabo Verdesz’ slaaf, Jan Vos, wat hy van ‘Cabo Verde’ gebring het. [Geen ouderdom of bedrag vermeld.]
  6. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 125. 27.1.1662, I, p. 307: Jan Vos from "Cabo Verdcsz", probably Cape Verde, sold by Tjaert Meijdertsz Backer. skipper of the Nagtigael, to Bartholomeus Borns.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  7. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "17 January 1662: Nachtigal [Nachtegaal] - galjoot en route to Paliacatta [Pulicat] stopping at Cap Vert (12-22 August 1661) brings 1 slave ex Cap Vert, Senegal
    Jan Vos van Cabo Verde [sic - Cap Vert] [sold (27 January 1662) by Fijaart Meijnderts Bakker to free-burgher Bartholomeus Borns (from Waerden [Friesland].)]
    "
 

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