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

David Jansz:¹

M, #17292, b. circa 1635, d. 19 October 1653

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

07/09/2015

Birth*

David Jansz: was born circa 1635.¹

Death*

He died on 19 October 1653, he was murdered.¹

Company Journal

On on 19 October 1653 Company Journal van Riebeeck 1651 to 1655 wrote in his journal: (Sunday). After service we heard that the interpreter. Also mentioned: Herry of the Goringhaicona.²

Citations

[S673] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December 1651 - December 1653[5], Van Riebeeck's Journal, &c. Part I, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), pp.161-162: 1653 Friday, Feb. 21. See journal of the same date.
(N.B. The young shepherd David Jansz, murdered by Herry and his comrades, is here described as having had a hand in slaughtering and eating the sheep stolen by Jan Banx and others.). Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5].
[S673] Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5], p.85.