Jan Claesz: Vetteman1

M, #14034, b. circa 1635

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Last Edited10/07/2015
BirthOrigin*Jan Claesz: Vetteman was from Amsterdam and may have been born there circa 1635 was from.1,2 
Marriage*He married Pn Vetteman before 1652.3
 
Occupation* Before 30 January 1657 Jan Claesz: Vetteman was a opperchirugijn (chief surgeon) de Caep de Goede Hoop.1 
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 6 March 1657 Jan Claesz: Vetteman was enumerated in the muster roll, as the chief surgeon.4
On 31 May 1657 Jan Claesz: Vetteman was enumerated in the muster roll, as an arquebusier earning f 10 per month.5
On 31 May 1657 Pn Vetteman was enumerated in the muster roll, as the wife of the chief surgeon, Jan Claesz: Vetteman, along with a slave owned by her husband. This would most likely have been.3
On 15 February 1658 Jan Claesz: Vetteman was enumerated in the muster roll among the freemen, as a free burgher and surgeon. Enumerated with him was Hans Isaacq Manget, described as 'in his service.6'
On 15 February 1658 Pn Vetteman was enumerated in the muster roll as the wife of the chief surgeon Jan Claesz: Vetteman, she has thus far eluded further identification in the record. She was enumerated with a slave owned by her husband, most likely Jan van Bengale.7
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusOn 5 January 1658, Jan Claesz: Vetteman was granted a vrijbrief or letter of freedom which released him from his contractual obligations to the VOC and accorded him the status of vrijburgher or free burgher. He was recorded as the chief surgeon.8
Slave TransactionsAfter 21 February 1657 Jan van Bengale was sold by an unknown person to Jan Claesz: Vetteman the Cape.9

Citations

  1. [S332] Webpage tanap.net (http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/) (Original records held by Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Roeland Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa) "Reference code: C. 1, p. 208.
    Dingsdagh den 30en Januarij ao. 1657.
    Den opperchirurgijn Mr. Jan vetteman, genesen hebbende den persoon Edmon Born van Hoorn, van [1] seeckere particuliere sieckte buijten dienst van d' E. Compe. gecregen, ende daer op genomen de verclaringe van den patient voorsz waer bij blijckt de waerheijt van de sake, [2] namentlijck dat den selven beloofft heefft voorsz meester daer voor te betalen een somma van 40 gl. eens, welcke penningen hem ontbreeckende sijn, ende dierhalven sonder persuasie aen den Commandeur ende Raet versoeckt, deselve van sijn op des mrs. reecke. mogen werden overgeschreven, soo is gemerckt het oock daer wel aen verdient heefft 't selve toegestaen, ende den boeckhouder deser fortresse uijt crachte deses ordre gegeven, voorgenoemden debiteur op sijn lopende reecqe. in de soldijeboucken aen gem. chirurgijn daer voor ter somma voorsz te belasten, ende den meester te crediteren, op dat alles blijcke na behooren.
    Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in 't Fort de Goede Hoope datum ut ante.
    JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
    JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
    ROELOFF DE MAN.
    CASPAR VAN WEEDE, Secrets. 1657.
    ----
    Notes.
    [1] Die gekursiveerde woord was uitgelaat en is tussen die reëls bygeskryf.
    [2] Na "sake" is een of twee woorde baie deeglik deurgehaal."
  2. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
  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.290.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  4. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.286-287.
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, pp.287-289.
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.294.
  7. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.293.
  8. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.265. As above to:- "Meester" Jan Vetteman, chief surgeon, of Amsterdam, d.d. 5th January, 1658.
  9. [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 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)].    "
 

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