Jacob Cauw1

M, #7815, b. circa 1630, d. before 2 September 1668

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited23/01/2016
Birth*Jacob Cauw was born circa 1630.2,3
 
Marriage*He married Anna Machtelt van Coevoerden circa 1650.2
 
Death*He died before 2 September 1668, when he was described as: den E.Heer Jacob Kauw zal.4
 
Occupation* On 15 May 1666 Jacob Cauw was was Admiral of the return fleet, and visiting Commissioner at the Cape.1 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.Before 2 September 1668, the name of Jacob was written in the record as E. Heer Jacob Kauw.
Baptisms - WitnessJacob Cauw and Anna Machtelt van Coevoerden, Luitenant Johannes Coon and Alexandrina Maxvelt witnessed the baptism of Elisabeth Barbara van Wullen on 25 April 1666 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.5
Slave TransactionsOn 15 May 1666 Jan van Bengale was sold by Jacob Cauw to Luitenant Johannes Coon, for Rds. 100. In terms of the agreement, Cau could purchase Jan back at the same amount; and if Coon did not have the purchase price immediately available, he could pay in instalments.6,7,8
On 15 May 1666 Diana van Bengale was sold by Jacob Cauw to Augustinus Boccaert, she would have accompanied Cauw and his wife from Batavia as they journeyed back to Patria. She was sold for Rds. 70 and was to be sold back to either of the couple should they return to the East.9

Citations

  1. [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): 15.5.1666     CTD 3, p.93
    Die edele heer Jacob Cauw, admiraal van die retoervloot en kommissaris…. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  2. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', 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), October 2014. "A man and his wife who also again come back into Groote Catrijn's life are Jacob Cau / Cauw and Anna Machtelt van Coevoerden. He is a junior merchant (1656) in Batavia serving later in Macassar and commander (1664) of the western coast of Sumatra. A jurist, he sits on the Council of Justice at Batavia. When admiral of the return fleet (May 1666), he inspects the Cape as commissioner where he again encounters Groote Catrijn."
  3. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide - Estimate is based on fact he was junior merchant in Batavia in 1656.
  4. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: an 1668
    den 6 Sept' een slaefinne kint van Juffr. Anna Machtelt van Coevoerden weduw van den E.Heer Jacob Kauw zal: onder getuijgenisse van de voorn. Jufr' wiert genaemt Loies des moeders naem was Diaen, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
  5. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1666
    Den 25 April een doghter van Jaoannes van Wullen en Catharina Herber[s] syn huis vrouw, wiert genaemt Elisabeth Barbara als getuijgen stonden den Hr Jacob [Cau] den Hr Zacharias Wagenaer: Juffr. N: Cau Juffr N: Coon, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  6. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 15.5.1666     CTD 3, p.93
    Die edele heer Jacob Cauw, admiraal van die retoervloot en kommissaris, verkoop aan Johannis Coon, vaandrig, ‘n Bengaalse slaaf, Jan van Bengale, op die voorwaarde dat Cauw hom weer kan terugneem wanneer hy die Kaap aandoen vir 100 Rds. [‘n Skuldbrief van Coon vir die bedrag kom op p.99 voor, dog is egter nie onderteken nie.]
  7. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 126. 15.5.1666, III, pp. 93-94: Jan from Bengal, sold by Jacob Cauw, Admiral of the return fleet, to Johannes Coon.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  8. [S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): 15.5.1666: Jan van Bengale word aan Johannes Coon vir 100 Rds. verkoop. Nie net word die prys in die addendum verswyg nie, maar ook die voorwaardes. Jacob Cauw kon hom teen dieselfde prys terugkoop. Indien Coon nie die koopsom dadelik sou kon bybring nie, kon hy wel in paaiement maar teen rente betaal.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
  9. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 15.5.1666     CTD 3, p.100
    Die edele heer Jacob Cauw, admiraal van die retoervloot en kommissaris, verkoop aan Augustijn Boccaert, boekhouer, die Bengaalse slavin Diana van die Kus vir 70 Rds op die voorwaarde dat as Cauw of sy vrou weer die Kaap sou aandoen hulle die slavin vir dieselfde bedrag mag terugneem.
 

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