Sijtje van Macassar1

F, #13882, b. circa 1669

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Last Edited08/11/2015
Birth*Sijtje van Macassar was born circa 1669.1,2
 
Baptisms - WitnessSijtje van Macassar and Emanùel van Macasser witnessed the baptism of Dirkje de Graaf on 7 December 1704 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.3
She and Fredrik van Santen witnessed the baptism of Adriana van de Caep on 20 January 1709 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk (Cape Town).4
Slave TransactionsOn 25 May 1690 Sijtje van Macassar, a slave, was was placed on loan from Franciscus Johannesz: Villerius, in service to Jan Holtsmit, the latter undertaking to maintain her until Villierius returned from Holland. However, Villerius died after leaving the Cape, because a note added to the file stipulated that his brother was his only heir and entitled to claim Sijtje as his property. This brother has now been identified as Rochus Johannesz: Villerius who in fact never travelled to the Cape. The Pijlswaert went down near the Shetland Islands enroute from the Cape to Patria, and all on board, including skipper Franciscus Johannesz: Villerus, lost their lives.5,6,7
Sijtje van Macassar, a slave, was was placed on loan from Jan Holtsmit, in service to Octavius van Macassar on 27 February 1698 de Caep de Goede Hoop.8,9

Citations

  1. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Who is Jannetje Rutgertroost? A genealogical investigation into the origins of a Cape of Good Hope-born mesties woman variously found in the records as: Jannetie / Jannetie Hans:/Hanse: Rutgertroost', 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), April 2012. "Seijtje / Sijtje / Zijtje van Macassar (born c. 1670)."
  2. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.157, 25.5.1690, pp.484-485: Sijtje from Macassar (20/21/).... Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  3. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[1704]; 7 Dec: Dirk Janse de Graaf en Elizabet Markùsz onder getuyge van Emanùel van Maccasser en Sytje van Macasser. Gen[aem]t - Dirkje; https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/… - last accessed 13 May 2012."
  4. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[20 Januarij 1709] Een slaavinne-kind van Jacob Paasa, de moeder was Anna van Madagascar; de getuigen waren Fredrik van Santen, en Seijtje van Macasser. - Adriana
    familysearch.org."
  5. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 30 Jannetje Rutgertroost', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "On 25 May 1690 she (then aged 20/21) given in loan by Franciscus Villerius, skipper of Pijlswaard to Jan Holsmit who undertakes to look after her maintenance until Villerius returns to Holland."
  6. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.157. 25.5.1690, pp. 484-485: Sijtje from Macassar (20/21), given in loan by Franciscus Villerius, skipper of the Pijlswaard, to Jan Holsmit who undertook to look after her maintenance until skipper Villerius returns from Holland. A note was added to this document, stating that the brother of the by now deceased Villerius was the only heir and entitled to claim Sijtje of Macassar.
  7. [S847] E-mails from Andries Penders to Delia Robertson, 2015 "The "Pijlswaert" left Capetown on 1-06-1690, bound for Holland, but the ship shipwrecked near the Shetland-Islands, North of Scotland, with all 170 men on board."
  8. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 30 Jannetje Rutgertroost', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "On 27 February 1698 she is given in loan to free-black [sic], Octavia [sic] van Macassar, by Holsmit, who is about to return to Patria. He promises to return Zijtje to the heirs of her former master, the late Francicus Villerius, should they come to the Cape to claim her."
  9. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 182. 27.2.1698: Zijtje from Macassar, who was about 20 in 1690, now given in loan to the Free Black, Octavia from Maeassar, by Jan Holtsmit, who was about to return to Patria. Octavia promised to return Zijtje to the heirs of her former master, the late skipper Franciscus Villcrius, should they come to the Cape to claim her. See also 25.5.1690.
 

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