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

Claer Roeloffsz: ter Maet¹

M, #17432, b. circa 1640, d. 1661

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Last Edited

10/09/2015

BirthOrigin*

Claer was from 's Gravenhage and was perhaps born there circa 1640. The date is estimated.¹

Death*

He died in 1661, he was recorded among the deceased in 1661. He had been employed by the Delft Chamber.²

(Passenger) ShipVoyage

On 13 March 1660 the De Vogel Phoenicx departed Goeree where it docked on 9 June 1660. Among those on board was Claer Roeloffsz: ter Maet, Louys Isaacsz: and Isaacq Jansz: de Graeff.³

Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)

On 1 March 1661 Claer Roeloffsz: ter Maet was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from 's Gravenhage, cadet.¹

Citations

[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.302. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.311.Claes Roelofsz: Ter Maet, of the Hague, cadet, arrived in the Vogel Phenix in 1660.
[S406] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), Appendix: xiv. June 9. The ship De Vogel Phenix, Skipper Jan Lucasz Meeuw, from Goeree the 13th March, with 273 men, 2 drowned and 1 dead. Voyage performed in the very short time of 2 months and 26 days.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.