Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin1

M, #17192, b. circa 1629, d. 14 April 1696
Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin (c 1629-96), Councillor of the Dutch East Indies and Commander of the Garrison at Batavia, attributed to Jan de Baen, 1650 - 1702 (wikipedia)

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Last Edited12/03/2016
BirthOrigin*Isaac was from the French province of Béarn and was perhaps born there circa 1629.1 
Death*He died on 14 April 1696.1
 
Baptisms - WitnessFrancina-Helena van de Caep was baptized on 8 July 1685 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The sponsors were High Commissioner Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, Simon van der Stel, Francina van Rheede and Elsie van Suurwaerden, However, Commissioner van Reede tot Drakenstein was not at the Cape and Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin acted in his place.2,3
Slave TransactionsOn 20 November 1676 Baddou van Bali was sold by Gouverneur Johan Bax to Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, for Rds. 50 for the use of Anthonij Jansz van Bengale. This is a rare, perhaps unqiue, transaction. It could not be that the authorities were unwilling to allow a former slave to become a slave owner and that this was a device to place a slave in his service; Anthonij was already the owner of a slave purchased earlier in the same year. Did l'Ostal St. Martin know Anthonij previously and want to help him? This remains to be seen. What is true, however, is that Anthonij and his subsequent wife, Catharina van Paliacatta, evidently had significant connections to a group of powerful individuals in the VOC hierachy and that they benefited from these ties.4,5

Citations

  1. [S428] Website Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_l'Ostal_de_Saint-Martin."
  2. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: den 8 Julii [1685] Francina-Helena den moeder Volandien een Malagasies slavyn. en de vader Steven Sinke-Pas [Cinque Pas?] soldaet de Agtbare Heer van Rede in syn E.[dele] plaets stont de Ed.[ele] Heer Martheng, de Ed.[ele] Heer Commandeur van der Stel, Juffrou van Rede en Juffrou Breugel.
    [My thanks to Mansell Upham for correcting this transcription.], transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ den 8 Julii [1685] Francina-Helena [later known as Nonje Francina] den moeder Volandien een Malagasies slavyn. en de vader Steven Sinke-Pas [Cinque Pas?] soldaet de Agtbare Heer van Rede [Commissioner Baron Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drake(n)stein, Heer van Mijdrecht (Amsterdam, 13 April 1636 - at sea 15 December 1691)] in syn E.[dele] plaets stont de Ed.[ele] Heer Martheng [Martin - Isaac de l'Ostal / Lostal de Saint-Martin (c. 1629-14 April 1696)] de Ed.[ele] Heer Commandeur van der Stel [Simon van der Stel], Juffrou van Rede [Francina van Reede - adopted slave-born daughter of Commissioner Baron Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drake(n)stein, Heer van Mijdrecht (Amsterdam, 13 April 1636 - at sea 15 December 1691)] en Juffrou Breugel [Elsje van Zuerwarden / Suurwaerden (1662 -1713?) wife to onderkoopman Albert Jansz: van Breugel / Breughel]. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
  3. [S839] Note by Mansell Upham, "den 8 Julii [1685] Francina-Helena [later known as Nonje Francina] den moeder Volandien een Malagasies slavyn. en de vader Steven Sinke-Pas [Cinque Pas?] soldaet de Agtbare Heer van Rede [Commissioner Baron Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drake(n)stein, Heer van Mijdrecht (Amsterdam, 13 April 1636 - at sea 15 December 1691)] in syn E.[dele] plaets stont de Ed.[ele] Heer Martheng [Martin - Isaac de l'Ostal / Lostal de Saint-Martin (c. 1629-14 April 1696)] de Ed.[ele] Heer Commandeur van der Stel [Simon van der Stel], Juffrou van Rede [Francina van Reede – adopted slave-born daughter of Commissioner Baron Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drake(n)stein, Heer van Mijdrecht (Amsterdam, 13 April 1636 - at sea 15 December 1691)] en Juffrou Breugel [Elsje van Zuerwarden / Suurwaerden (1662 -1713?) wife to onderkoopman Albert Jansz: van Breugel / Breughel]."
  4. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 20.11.1676     [Verlore]
    Goewerneur Bax verkoop aan St Martin vir die gebruik van Anthoni van Bengale, ‘vrij ingesetene alhier,’ die slaaf Baddou van Bali vir 50 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
  5. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 132: 20.11.1676: Baddou from Bali, sold by Governor Bax to St. Martin for the use of Anthoni from Bengal "vrij ingesetene alhier" for Rds. 50.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
 

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