'Sincko van Jambi1

M, #14024, b. circa 1633, d. before 5 March 1659

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Last Edited09/07/2015
Birth*'Sincko van Jambi was born circa 1633, he was said to be 21 years old in 1654.2
 
Death*He died before 5 March 1659 de Caep de Goede Hoop, when he is no longer recorded on the muster.2
 
(Witness) ShipVoyage On 8 March 1654 the Haes departed Batavia enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 17 July 1654. Among those on board was 'Sincko van Jambi, a convict being exiled to the Cape for murder.3,1 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.'Sincko van Jambi was also known as (?) 'tSincko.2
'Sincko van Jambi was also known as 'tSincko van Jambi.4
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 31 May 1657 'Sincko van Jambi was enumerated in the muster roll, being recorded among the convicts and men in chains as 'The Chinaman' for the term of his natural life.5
On 15 February 1658 'Sincko van Jambi was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded among the 'convicts and men in irons' as 'a Chinaman' for for life.6
Crime and relatedOn 29 November 1653 'Sincko van Jambi murdered a fellow Chinese named 'tSaeko, whom he accused of previously beating his uncle. He was sentenced to be executed on 5 December 1653.7
On 10 December 1653 the death sentence imposed on 'Sincko van Jambi was commuted to life, to be served as a convict at the Cape.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. "10 December 1653: Haes ex Batavia brings exiled Chinese convict ‘tSincko (from Jambi on Sumatra)."
  2. [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.290,293,297. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  3. [S673] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December 1651 - December 1653[5], Van Riebeeck's Journal, &c. Part I, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), 1654. July 17th.-Sentence carried out. Vessel sighted-becalmed boat pulled on shore; proved to be the Haes, viâ Mauritius from Batavia on the 7th March, with rice, &c., for this station; sent 3 boats to tow the yacht into the bay. God be thanked for the success obtained. Sent the boat to Robben Island with provisions, picks and shovels to prepare some ground, for wheat, &c., by way of experiment. S. East not so heavy there - it is supposed therefore that the wheat will thrive there better.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5].
  4. [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. "10 December 1653: Haes ex Batavia brings exiled Chinese convict
    ‘t Sincko     (from Jambi [Sumatra])."
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.290.
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.293.
  7. [S837] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters and Documents Received 1649--1662, H.C.V. Leibrandt; CD-ROM (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1898), 7th March 1654
    p.116
    No. 38.

    As it has appeared to the Court of Justice at Batavia that 'tSincko, a Chinaman, resident here, and from F' Jamboy, aged 21, at present a prisoner, did, on the 29th November, about two hours away from the city, at the gambling place near the Company's gardens, and without any reason or saying a word, seize hold of another Chinaman named 'tSaeko, sitting in the gambling place and gambling, by the hair, and strike him with his fists. Tsaeko loudly asking why he beat him, prisoner replied because you have beaten my uncle, and I am now paying you off for it, and continued his assault vehemently, unmercifully striking him without letting go his hair and wherever he could hitting him ; finally wrenching his head on one side and giving him one or two hard blows with the fist behind the ear that he at once fell down dead, as the inquest held on the same day showed.
    (Bruises described.
    Skull fractured in three places, which caused death.)
    As prisoner has therefore crbeen guilty of deliberate murder, and the Court cannot close its eyes to such a crime, but is to deal with it most rigorously, it therefore, whilst dispensing justice in the name of the States-General, condemns the prisoner to death, and with

    p. 118
    7th March 1654
    approval of the Governor-General and Council of India sentences him to be executed, and all his property to be confiscated.

    Done the 5th December, 1653, and published and executed on
    the 10th following.
    (Signed) Gaspar van den Bogaerden.
    Cornelis Faber.
    Wouter Sekoyen.
    Jan Ferinent Wynant Rutgers.
    Jan van Hoesum.
    Arent van den Helm.
    Fredrick Roest    , Sworn Clerk.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  8. [S837] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.118. Lower stood. Though this sentence is just, it has been shown, by a second consideration of the evidence, that the crime had not been committed with a set purpose but by accident, and not intentionally on the part of the prisoner. The Court therefore preferring mercy to rigour, has decided for the reason stated, to approve of it that the prisoner be exempted from the punishment of death, and that he shall be transported to the Cape with one of the first departing ships, to spend the rest of his life there in exile. In the Castle, Batavia, the 10th December, 1653.
    (Signed) Joan Maetsuyker.
    Agrees with the original.
    10th December, 1653.
    Fredrick Roest, Sworn Clerk.
    Extracted from the Sentence book preserved at the Secretariat
    Office, Batavia, and agrees with original.
    This 7th March, 1654.
    M. Wynant van Catersvelt.
 

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