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Last Edited13/09/2017
ShipVoyage* On 22 November 1656 the Oranje departed the Vlie enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 17 March 1657. Among those on board was Roeloff Hansz: and Rijcklof van Goens. Van Goens, as Commissioner, was on orders to inspect the settlement.2,3 
ShipVoyage On 19 April 1657 the Oranje departed the Cape enroute to Batavia where it docked on a date to be confirmed. Among those on board were Rijcklof van Goens, the visiting Commissioner who took with him, apparently as a servant, the Goringhaiqua interpreter Doman of the Goringhaiqua.4 
ShipVoyage On 12 February 1659 the Oranje departed Holland where it docked on 28 June 1659. Among those on board was Jan Willebrandt.5 

Citations

  1. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', 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), January 2012.
  2. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0863.7 to Batavia

    Number     0863.7
    Name of ship     ORANJE
    Master     
    Tonnage     700/1200
    Type of ship     
    Built     1643
    Yard     Zeeland
    Chamber     
    Date of departure     22-11-1656
    Place of departure     
    Arrival at Cape     17-03-1657
    Departure from Cape     19-04-1657
    Date of arrival at destination     01-07-1657
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     At the Cape 27 soldiers went from the ORANJE to the MALACCA.
    Next homeward voyage     5455.7
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     254     5     6     10     6     252
    Soldiers     136     0     27     2     0     111
    Passengers     9     0     0     0     0     9. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  3. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p. 309. Roeloff Hansz:, of Christiania, freeman, who arrived in the (Orangie in 1657 (of the Amsterdam Chamber).. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  4. [S405] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol II 1656-1658 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), p.58. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol II 1656-1658.
  5. [S406] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), Appendices xii. June 28. The ship Orange, Skipper H. v. d. Putten, of Zealand; had left Holland 12th February, with 410 men, 15 dead, 40 sick.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.
 

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