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Last Edited16/09/2021
(Fleet) ShipVoyage In February 1655 the Dolfijn, Dordrecht, Gideon, Henriette Louise, Parel, Prinses Royael and Tholen, ships of the return fleet, departed Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 21 April 1655. Among those who arrived that day were the slaves Maria da Costa van Bengale and Maria van Bengale.2,3 
(Fleet) ShipVoyage On 4 December 1656 the Amersfoort, Wapen van Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Wapen van Holland, Westfriesland and Prins Willem, ships of the return fleet, left Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 21 February 1657. The Prins Willem brought the recently convicted and banished slave Catharina van Paliacatta, while the Amersfoort brought the slaves Angela van Bengale, Elisabeth van Bengale, Jan van Bengale, Claes van Bengale and Anna van Bengalen.4 
ShipVoyage* On 17 December 1657 the Dordrecht departed Goeree enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 28 April 1658. Among those on board was Jan Coenraad Visser.5,6 
ShipVoyage* On 7 December 1667 the Dordrecht, Kattenburg, Wapen van Middelburg, Oudshoorn, Hollandse Tuin and Vergulde Tijger departed Batavia enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 23 Feb 1668. Among those on board the Hollandse Tuin who remained when the fleet sailed, was Tobias Marquaert.7,8 

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. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "21 April 1655: Return Fleet (Dolfijn, Dordrecht, Gideon, Henriette Louise, Parel, Prinses Royaal & Tholen) ex Batavia brings
    Maria van Bengale (Marij da Costa) [belonging to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Maria van Bengale (Maria Sacharias:) [belongs 1stly to Hendrik Hendricksz: Boom (from Amsterdam) & 2ndly to Pieter van der Stael (from Rotterdam)].    "
  3. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006). Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  4. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "21 February 1657:     Return Fleet ex Batavia arrives:
    Prins Willem brings exiled convict (Company slave)
    Catharina (Groote Catrijn) van Paliacatta [Pulicat]
    Amersfoort brings 5 private slaves
    Angela / Engela (Maaij Ansela / Moeder Jagt) van Bengale [sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Bengale [misrecorded as Domingo [sic] - sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Jan van Bengale [sold to Jan Vetteman]
    Claes van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)]
    Anna van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)].    "
  5. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 0884.3 from Goeree to Batavia

    Number     0884.3
    Name of ship     DORDRECHT
    Master     Groot, Jakob Gerrit de
    Tonnage     920
    Type of ship     fregat?
    Built     1652
    Yard     Delft
    Chamber     Delft
    Date of departure     17-12-1657
    Place of departure     Goeree
    Arrival at Cape     28-04-1658
    Departure from Cape     13-05-1658
    Date of arrival at destination     14-07-1658
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     Via S. Vincente: 2 seafarers and 4 soldiers deserted there. The 30 'passengers' who embarked at the Cape were slaves; 28 of them arrived at Batavia.
    Next homeward voyage     5472.3
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     368     14     8          36     200
    Soldiers               6               110
    Passengers                    30          32."
  6. [S657] Mansell Upham 'Hell and Paradise... Hope on Constantia / De Hel en Het Paradijs... De Hoop op Constantia: Jan Grof (died ante 1700) and his extended family at the Cape of Good Hope', 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), February 2012. "Hailing from Ommen in the United Dutch province of Overijssel, Grof sailed (1657) on the VOC ship Dort [Dordrecht] for the Cape... The ship sailed from Goeree (17 December 1657) carrying 364 persons. She put in at the island of St. Vincent (3 February 1658) due to loss of her bowsprit and a mast, leaving again (6 February 1658) and arriving at the Cape (Sunday 28 April 1658)."
  7. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Name of ship                Master          Date of          Place of     Arrival at
    Departure     departure     Cape
    DORDRECHT                         07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668
    KATTENBURG               Jansz., Ouwel     07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668
    WAPEN VAN MIDDELBURG               07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668
    OUDSHOORN               Flodorp, Jan     07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668
    HOLLANDSE TUIN                    07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668
    VERGULDE TIJGER          Zwart, . . .     07-12-1667     Batavia          23-02-1668.
  8. [S836] Vrijboek 1681 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "Tobias Marquart van Hamburgh voor passagieren de Camer Amsterdam anno 1668 met den Hollandsen Thuijn aangelandt". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
 

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