First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Jacob Dircx Jaarsma¹

M, #15673, b. circa 1635

Copyright / Terms of Use Notice

The material on this website is subject to copyright.
Facts (names, dates, and places) are not copyright. You are free to transcribe them but not cut and paste into your data provided you use the correct attribution and citation.
I have created the narratives, sentences, and citations; they are copyright and may not be used.
You may not add them to your genealogy, your personal documents, your tree on Ancestry, nor in the data or profile sections on Geni, nor anywhere else.
Many of the images are also copyright. You may not copy them without the consent of the copyright holders.
You must use the correct attribution and citation, viz.: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. Here you add the page URL.

Last Edited

24/12/2014

Birth*

Jacob Dircx Jaarsma was born circa 1635.¹

Occupation*

Jacob Dircx Jaarsma was skipper of the Asia on 5 June 1683.²

Slave Transactions

Marcus van Bengale was sold by Jacob Dircx Jaarsma on behalf of Jacob Overwagen to Simon van der Stel on 5 June 1683, for Rds. 40.²
Unnamed Slave van Macassar was sold by Jacob Dircx Jaarsma on behalf of Jacob Overwagen to Simon van der Stel on 5 July 1683, for Rds. 40.^3,4

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 140.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 140. 5.6.1683: Marcus from Bengal (20) sold by Jacob Dircxz Jaarsma, skipper on Asia, on behalf of Jacob Overwater for Rds. 40 to Simon van der Stel.
[S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): In ‘n transaksie wat Böeseken verkeerdelik as 5.6.1683 opgee – eintlik is dit 5.7.1683 – koop Simon van der Stel ‘n slaaf teen 40 Rds. en nie vir 90 Rds. soos sy dit verstrek nie.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 140. 5.6.1683: Slave (not named) sold by Jacob Dircxz Jaarsma, skipper on Asia, on behalf of Jacob Overwagen, secr. of the Council of Justice in Batavia, to Simon van der Stel for Rds. 90.