Pieter Pietersz1
M, #13595, b. circa 1645
Last Edited | 27/12/2015 |
BirthOrigin* | Pieter was probably among the slaves who arrived in 1658 on the Amerisfoot (28 March) or the Hasselt (6 May) from Angola and from Guinea. If the latter, he would most likely have been from the region around modern day Benin. He was perhaps born circa 1645.2 |
Notes | On 1 October 1658 Pieter Pietersz and Pieter Rob I have assumed that these are two separate individual given that both had different owners on the same date. |
Slave Transactions | Between 6 May 1658 and 1 October 1658 Pieter Pietersz was sold by the Company to Leendert Cornelisz.3 On 1 October 1658 Jan Bruijn van Madagascar, Judas de Wever, Sara de Waster, Pieter Pietersz and Regina van Rapenberg van Guinea were, along with any of their future offspring, put up as security in a skuldbrief by Leendert Cornelisz: in favour of the wife of the commander Maria de la Queillerie. This was for a loan of f 300 at ¾% per month. Cornelisz: as well as all his possessions, were included as security. The payment in the first month was excused, thereafter he was to make monthly payments until the original amount, plus interest, was repaid. Presumably he carried out the agreement, because the skuldbrief was cancelled on 12 November 1658.1,4 On 12 March 1668 Pieter Pietersz was sold by Thomas Christoffel Müller to Henrick van Zuerwaarden, for Rds 100.4,5 |
Citations
- [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): 1.10.1658 CTD I, p.110
Leendert Cornelisz van Sevenhuijsen, vryburger en houtsaer, skuld Maria de la Quellerije, huisvrou van kommandeur Jan van Riebeecq, bedrag van f 300 wat hy van haar geleen het teen drie-kwart persent per maand, die eerste maand verskoon. Hy beloof om maandeliks te betaal tot die volle bedrag en rente betaal is, en stel as pand homself en al sy besittings, veral sy slawe en slavinne Jan Bruijns, Judas de Wever, Sara de Waster, Tavina van Rapenburg en Pieter Pietersz mel hulle kinders en nog te verwekte kinders. [Kantnota: Op 12. 11.1685 gerojeer.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)." - [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 1.10.1658 CTD I, p.110
Leendert Cornelisz van Sevenhuijsen, vryburger en houtsaer, skuld Maria de la Quellerije, huisvrou van kommandeur Jan van Riebeecq, bedrag van f 300 wat hy van haar geleen het teen drie-kwart persent per maand, die eerste maand verskoon. Hy beloof om maandeliks te betaal tot die volle bedrag en rente betaal is, en stel as pand homself en al sy besittings, veral sy slawe en slavinne Jan Bruijns, Judas de Wever, Sara de Waster, Tavina van Rapenburg en Pieter Pietersz mel hulle kinders en nog te verwekte kinders. [Kantnota: Op 12. 11.1685 gerojeer.] - [S810] Mansell Upham 'At Earth's Extremest End… Op 't eijnde van de Aerd … The genealogical impact of the 'Angola' & 'Guinea' slaves at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century', 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), August 2014. "A wifeless Leendert Cornelisz: borrows (1 October 1658) f 300 from Maria de la Queillerie, wife of Jan van Riebeeck. He puts himself up as surety together with all his possessions - especially the slaves the Cape-born heelslag Jan Bruijns and the ‘Guinea’ slaves: Judas de Wever, Sara de Waster [Koddo / Prodo aka Plad Oor] and Pieter Pietersz: aka Pieter Rob “including their children and children yet to be born”."
- [S810] Mansell Upham 'UL 20 At Earth's Extremest End…', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Pieter Pietersz: van Guinea aka Pieter Rob appears to be purchased by Thomas Christoffel Muller (from Leipzig) who in turn sells him (12 March 1668) to Hendrik Snijer."
- [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 127. 12.3.1668, pp. 203-204: Pieter from Guinea, sold by Thomas Christoffel Muller to Hendrick van Zuerwaerden for Rds. 100.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.