Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp1

M, #7874, b. before 20 February 1629, d. 15 February 1667

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited24/02/2016
Birth*Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp was born before 20 February 1629 in Amsterdam.2,3
 
BaptismDs. Petrus Wachtendorp was baptized on 20 February 1629 Amsterdam.3 
Marriage*He married Maria Prignon circa January 1666.2
 
Death*He died on 15 February 1667 de Caep de Goede Hoop.3,2
 
Occupation* Between 12 November 1666 and 15 February 1667 Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp was acting NGK minister (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.4 
Slave TransactionsBetween 28 November 1665 and 18 June 1668 when Maria da Costa van Bengale and Lysbeth van Bengale were sold by Maria Prignon, widow of Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp, to Jacob van Borghorst they were either sold or passed along with their households by the incumbent ministers to their successors, who were Ds. Joan van Arckel, Dom:e Joannes de Voogd and Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp.5
After 19 October 1666 Abraham van Guinea was sold by an unknown person to Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp, this transaction is assumed.6
After 18 June 1668 Abraham van Guinea was sold along with Maria da Costa van Bengale and Lysbeth van Bengale by Maria Prignon the widow of the minister Ds. Petrus Wachtendorp for f 660. Included in the transaction were Lijsbet's two unnamed children, probably Anna Pieters and Anthonij van de Caep. The purchaser was the incoming commander Jacob van Borghorst.7

Citations

  1. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1667. May : 9 een soontie van Geertruyt Ment weduwe van Wilhem Lodowijck Wiederholt genaemt Wilhem Lodowijck, peeters waren Pieter van Klindenbergh en Maria Prigon weduwe van Do' Wachtendorp, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
  2. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1667
    May : 9 een soontie van Geertruyt Ment weduwe van Wilhem Lodowijck Wiederholt genaemt Wilhem Lodowijck, peeters waren Pieter van Klindenbergh en Maria Prigon weduwe van Do' Wachtendorp, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  3. [S201] Editor-in-chief C.J. Beyers Dictionary of South African Biography Vol V. (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1967), p.857. Wachtendorp (Wagtendorp), Petrus (bapt. Amsterdam, the Neth., 20.2.1629 - †Cape, 15.2.1667), minister at the Cape, was the son of the Reverend Petrus Wachtendorp and his wife, Angnieta Hage. . Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of SA Biography V.
  4. [S657] Mansell Upham 'Hell and Paradise... Hope on Constantia / De Hel en Het Paradijs... De Hoop op Constantia: Jan Grof (died ante 1700) and his extended family at the Cape of Good Hope', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), February 2012. "Wachtendorp had arrived (29 October 1666) with his wife Maria Prignon and children on the Beurs. They had left the Netherlands (1666) for the East but never got there, as he died unexpectedly at the Cape. In terms of a Council of Policy resolution (12 November 1666), he was appointed acting minister until the new resident minister-elect Burenus arrived but died the following year (15 February 1667)."
  5. [S657] Mansell Upham 'UL04 Hell and Paradise', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713),.
  6. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), October 2014. "Abraham (Abram) [Serry?] van Guinea. [purchased from the Company (17 April 1669) previously belonging to Johannes Petrus Wachtendorp (from Maasbommmel), his widow Maria Prignon (1668) & Commander Jacob Borghorst (1669)]"
  7. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), pp. 31.The widow of the Rev. Petrus Wachtendorp sold Borghorst a male slave named Serry [Abraham/Abram] who came from Guinea, together with two female slaves and two children, not mentioned by name, for f 660. In footnote 45 on this page, Böeseken notes that on his departure from the Cape in April 1670, Borghorst sold twelve slaves, including Serry, to the Company for f 2 842:10:-.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
 

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