First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

William Carel Hartsinck¹

M, #15811, b. 12 July 1638, d. 22 May 1689

Copyright / Terms of Use Notice

The material on this website is subject to copyright.
Facts (names, dates, and places) are not copyright. You are free to transcribe them but not cut and paste into your data provided you use the correct attribution and citation.
I have created the narratives, sentences, and citations; they are copyright and may not be used.
You may not add them to your genealogy, your personal documents, your tree on Ancestry, nor in the data or profile sections on Geni, nor anywhere else.
Many of the images are also copyright. You may not copy them without the consent of the copyright holders.
You must use the correct attribution and citation, viz.: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. Here you add the page URL.

Last Edited

31/12/2014

Birth*

William Carel Hartsinck was born on 12 July 1638 in Firando (Hirado), Japan.^2,1

Death*

He died on 22 May 1689 Beverwijk, , at age 50.²

Occupation*

Between June 1660 and 26 June 1686 William Carel Hartsinck was an increasingly important VOC official culminating in him being the VOC governor of North Coromandel.³

Slave Emancipations

Paul de Kock was emancipated by William Carel Hartsinck at the Cape, apparently with permission to return to Batavia, where he would have to serve Constanteijn Ranst until he decided whether to be a servant or to work as a free man. But a second deed was executed the same day, stipulating that Paul de Kock would first have to serve Rijckloff van Goens for five years following his return to Batavia.⁴
On 4 April 1686 Unnamed and Gendler Unspecified Slave was emancipated by William Carel Hartsinck, on condition that he first serve Merchant Klinck.⁵

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.144.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S818] Website Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/) "HARTSINCK (Willem Carel), broer van Pieter (1), die voorgaat, geb. te Firando 12 Juli 1638, overl. te Beverwijk 22 Mei 1689."
[S818] Website Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/) "Hij trad in dienst der Compagnie, waarbij hij snel promotie maakte en reeds spoedig den rang van opperkoopman bereikt had. Als zoodanig was hij van Juni 1660-63 secunde te Datcheron aan de Godavari in Voor-Indië, van 1663-77 opperhoofd van onze nederzetting in Golconda, ten N. van den mond der genoemde rivier, van 1677-79 eerste te Mazulipatam, van 1679-81 gouverneur van Noord - Coromandel. Hij repatrieerde als admiraal op een retourvloot van zestien schepen (26 Juni 1686)."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.144. 4.4.1686: Paul de Kock was given his freedom by Willem Carel Hartsinck, the former president of Masulipatnam. Back in Batavia, he would have to serve Constanteijn Ranst until he decided whether he wanted to be a servant or find work as a free man.
On the same day another deed was passed in which it is recorded that Paul de Kock, on his arrival in Batavia, would have to serve Rijckloff van Goens for five years.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.144. 4.4. I 686: Hartsinck manumitted another slave (name not given), who would have to serve the merchant Klinck before manumission.