Jan Vos1

M, #15321, b. circa 1648

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Last Edited07/02/2016
BirthOrigin*Jan was from Cap Vert (Dakar) and may have been born there circa 1648.2,3 
(Slave) ShipVoyage On 15 June 1661 the Nachtigal departed Vlie for the second time after returning earlier from an apparently aborted voyage. On the second attempt the vessel stopped over for ten days (between 12 and 22 August) at Cap Vert (now Dakar, Senegal) enroute to the Cape where it docked on 17 January 1662. The master was Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker, who at Cap Vert, had acquired the slave Jan Vos.4 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.An unknown date , the name of Jan was written in the record as Jan Vos van Cabo Verde.2
Slave TransactionsOn 27 January 1662 Jan Vos was sold by Fijaart Meindertsz Bakker to Bartholomeus Borns.5,6,2
On 6 February 1663 Jan Vos was offered by Bartholomeus Boorn to Joachim Blank, as surety for a loan of f 200 at ¾% per month. Included as surety were all his possessions owned together with his partner Thomas Christoffel Müller, including a house on Dassen Island, vessels, sheep and pigs.7
On 19 May 1663 Jan Vos may have been the slave offered as an element of the surety offered by Bartholomeus Boorn to Jan Martensz de Wacht, for the purchase of a home and erf in Table Valley for f 500 which he promised to pay in three instalments, the first of f 100 and the balance in equal annual payments on 1 January. The surety included the new home and erf, as well as half his possessions owned in partnership with Thomas Christoffel Müller, both here [Table Valley?] and on Dassen Island, which were huisie, vaartuie, varke, skape along with his own slaaf. [Hattingh offers the date of 19.5.1662 - but I have assumed the year to be 1663 because of where it appears in the record]8
On 3 January 1667 Jan Vos was sold by Bartholomeus Borns to Sr. Pieter van Meerhof.9,10
On 23 October 1669 Jan Vos, owned by the widow of Pieter van Meerhoff, Krotoa of the Goringhaicona, who had been placed in the care of the Church Council, had been on loan to Jan Verhagen for a month. On 1 January 1670 it was noted in the margin of the entry that the slave had been returned together with an appropriate loan fee.11,12,13
Slaves owned by individualsJan Vos may have been the slave owned by Bartholomeus Boorn on 27 December 1664 and who was said to be an element of the surety offered by Borns for his debt to the Company for purchase of the boat De Bruijt for f 1000 which he promised to pay in two equal annual instalments iin the month of January [1665 and 1666]. The first component of the surety was De Bruijt together its mast, sail, and equipment; the second his house on Fortsplein in Table Valley; and the third his residence on Dasseneiland, which in addition to the said slave, also included his sheep, pigs, vaartuie [vessels?] and traanketel.14,15
Property TransactionsOn 24 June 1662 Thomas Christoffel Müller and Bartholomeus Boorn signed a skuldbrief or lien in the amount of f 3050 in favour of Cornelis Mostaert for the purchase of his home, payable in two equal instalments of f 1525, the first on 1 April 1663 and the second one year later. They were individually responsible for paying half of each instalment. As surety they offered their own recently purchased home on the corner of Fortsplein and the street on the strand [?], as well as their vaartuie, huisies, slawe, varke, skape - i.e. vehicles [wagons?], little houses/buildings, slaves, pigs, sheep, etc. At the time Müller owned at least the following slaves, Pieter van Guinea, Pauwels Das, Oude Hans van Guinea and Gegeima van Guinea while Borns owned Jan Vos, all of whom may have been part of the surety.16

Citations

  1. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 125. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  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. "17 January 1662: Nachtigal [Nachtegaal] - galjoot en route to Paliacatta [Pulicat] stopping at Cap Vert (12-22 August 1661) brings 1 slave ex Cap Vert, Senegal
    Jan Vos van Cabo Verde [sic - Cap Vert] [sold (27 January 1662) by Fijaart Meijnderts Bakker to free-burgher Bartholomeus Borns (from Waerden [Friesland].)]
    "
  3. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
  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), "17 January 1662: Nachtigal [Nachtegaal] - galjoot en route to Paliacatta [Pulicat] stopping at Cap Vert (12-22 August 1661) brings 1 slave ex Cap Vert, Senegal
    Jan Vos van Cabo Verde [sic - Cap Vert] [sold (27 January 1662) by Fijaart Meijnderts Bakker to free-burgher Bartholomeus Borns (from Waerden [Friesland].)]"
  5. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 27.1.1662     CTD I, p.307
    Tjaert Meijndertsz Backer, skipper van die galjoot De Naghtegael, verkoop aan Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vryburger, die ‘Cabo Verdesz’ slaaf, Jan Vos, wat hy van ‘Cabo Verde’ gebring het. [Geen ouderdom of bedrag vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  6. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 125. 27.1.1662, I, p. 307: Jan Vos from "Cabo Verdcsz", probably Cape Verde, sold by Tjaert Meijdertsz Backer. skipper of the Nagtigael, to Bartholomeus Borns.
  7. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 6.2.1663     CTD 2, p.3
    Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vry Saldanhavaarder, se skuldbrief ten gunste van Jochum Blanck van Lubeck, dispensier in die fort, vir die bedrag van f 200 wat hy geleen het teen ‘n driekwart persent per maand. Borns bied as pand die helfte van al die goedere, soos sy huis op Dasseneiland, hul vaartuie, skape en varke wat hy saam met Thomas Christoffel Muller, mede vry Saldanhavaarder, besit asook sy eie slaaf genaamd Jan Vos.
  8. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 19.5.1662 [19.5.1663?]                                     CTD 2, p.66
    Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vry Saldanhavaarder en vryburger se skuld brief ten gunste van Jan martens de Waght vir die gedrag van f 500 weens die koop van ‘n huis en erf in Tafelvallei. Hy beloof om in drie paaiemente te betaal, die eerste van f 100 en die resterende in gelyke bedrae jaarliks op die eerste Januarie, en bied as pand veral die nuwe huis en erf asook die helfte van sy besittings wat hy saam met Thomas Christoffel Muller [nou sy buurman langs Fortsplein] besit, hier en op Dasseneiland, huisie, vaartuie, varke, skape asook sy eie slaaf. [Naam nie vermeld nie.]
  9. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.29. On the 3rd of January 1667 Bartholomeus Borns, a Free Burgher from Waerden, sold a slave to Pieter van Meerhoff. This slave had the unusual name of Jan Vos and was said to have come from Cape Verde, the cape on which Dakar lies to-day.
    p. 127. 3.1.1667, III, p. 119: Jan Vos from Cape Verde, sold by Pieter [Bartholomeus] Borns to Pieter van Meerhoff.
  10. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 3.1.1667     CTD 3, p.119
    Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vryburger, verkoop aan Pieter van Meerhoff van Copenhagen, chirurgyn, die ‘Cabo Verdens’ slaaf, Jan Vos. [Geen bedrag vermeld.]
  11. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 23.10.1669     CTD 3, p.303
    Die vryburger Jan Verhagen leen vir een maand van die kerkraad die gebruik van die slaaf Jan Vos, behorende aan die weduwee van wyle Pieter van Meerhoff [die Khoivrou Eva] en belowe indien die slaaf in sy diens iets sou oorkom na behore daarvoor te vergoed. [Kantnota] Die slaaf is weer op I Januarie 1670 aan die kerkraad besorg met die daartoe behoorde loon.
  12. [S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): Wat Böeseken hierin as die hoofaspek stel, naamlik dat die weduwee Meerhof haar slaaf in die sorg van die Kerkraad plaas, is bloot 'n ondergeskikte identifiseringstelling van die stuk, terwyl dit wat volgens haar net 'n kantnota is, eintlik die essensie van die werklike document is.
         Met ander woorde, in werklikheid ontvang Jan Verhagen die slaaf Jan Vos van die Kerkraad vir die duur van 'n maand "in lening" en beloof terselfdertyd om hom virs sy dienste na behore te vergoed. Die weduwee Meerhof was natuurlik die bekende Hottentot-vrou, Eva, wat na die dood van haar man onder die sorg van die Kerkraad gekom het. Die betrokke kantnota van 1.1.1670 sê net dat die slaaf wel met die "daartoe behorende loon" aan die Kerkraadt terugbesorg is.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
  13. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, pp. 127-128.23.10.1669, III, p. 303: Jan Vos, a slave belonging to the widow of Jan [Pieter] van Meerhoff, was placed in the care of the Church Council. In the margin a note added on 1.1.1670 states that Jan Vos had been hired out to Jan Verhagen for one month.
  14. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 126. 27.12.1664, II, p. 117: Amongst the possessions of Bartholomeus Borns a
    slave is mentioned as surety that he would pay his debts.
  15. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 27.12.1664     CTD 2, p.115
    Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vry Saldanhavaarder, koop van die Kompanjie die opgeboude boot, 6 laste groot genaamd De Bruijt, en verklaar aan die Kompanjie skuldig te wees die bedrag van f 1000 wat hy beloof om in twee gelyke jaarlikse paaiemente in Januarie te betaal. Die boot, mas, seil en gereedskap sal in die eerste plek as pand dien en daarna sy huis aan Fortsplein in Tafelvallei, sy woning te Dasseneiland, sy slaaf, skape, varke, vaartuie en traanketel. [Geen naam vermeld.]
  16. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 24.6.1662     CTD 1, p.326
    Skuldbrief aan [van?] Thomas Christoffel Muller van Leypsigh en Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vryburgers en Saldanhavaarders, gesamentlik verskuldig aan Wouter Cornelisz Mostert, oud burgerraad, die som van f 3 050 vir die koop van van Mostert se huis. Elkeen verantwoordelik vir die helfte van die paaiement van f 1525 waarvan die eerste betaalbaar is op 1 April 1663 en dan die jaar daarna. Hulle bied as pand hulle nuut gekoopte huis op die hoek van Fortsplein en die straat aan die seestrant asook hulle vaartuie, huisies, slawe, varke, skape, ens. soos op Dasseneiland en in Tafelbaai. [Geen name word vermeld nie.]
 

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