Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (Memorials) 1715-1806. vol. I-VW. A. Richards & sons, 1906 - Archives |
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Adriaan agriculturist Andries Anthonij appointed arrived asks for burgher asks permission Batavia behalf Bengal Bergh bookkeeper Brakel burgher Councillor burgher papers Cape Captain Carel Ceylon chief mate Christiaan Christoffel Church Council Coenraad Company Company's consequence Daniel December Diagram annexed discharge District exhib False Bay farm favour female slave Frederik free black freehold Governor Graaff-Reinet grant Heemraden Heemraden.-Landdrost and H. H. Heijning Hermanus Jacob Jansz January Johannes junior merchant Kerkeraad land Landdrost late lessee Lieutenant Lodewijk Louw manumission manumit his slave Maria mate Meermin Meijer memorialist Michiel morgen Muller named Nicolaas Orphan Chamber Oudshoorn Paarl passage home Petrus Pieter prays proposed as deacon proposed as Heemraad Regiment request residents Resolution return ship sailor Saldanha Bay Signature skipper soldier Stellenbosch and Drakenstein submits sureties surgeon Swellendam sworn clerk Table Valley vessel vice Villiers widow wife Willem wishes to manumit wishes to remit
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Page 485 - ... shall serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three...
Page 771 - ... he has lost all control and authority over his slaves, to such an extent that they do not in the least respect him, but commit all kinds of excesses on the farm, and during the night and...
Page 772 - The nearest neighbours have often told me that strange things happen on the farm, which is the happy resort of Hottentot women who have run away from their masters, and who already form a considerable number, remaining there, in spite of...
Page 768 - Will annexed, and also list of the articles to be sent away, which are as follows :— 2 dark blue silk cotton lined Moorish coats ; 1 white flowered silk doublet, embroidered with gold...
Page 768 - They wish to send the whole away in a case, and add to the parcel, for the...
Page 679 - Lever (Abraham); burgher; submits that in 1749 he took on quitrent from the Company for 15 years a piece of garden land adjoining his farm behind the
Page 828 - Commission consisting of a Member of the Court of Justice, a member of the Burgher Senate, and the...
Page 768 - ... 1 dark red silk doublet, gold embroidered ; 1 blue velvet doublet, gallooned with gold...
Page 634 - ... or keep breeding cattle, but only builds a house on it, and keeps about...
Page 605 - King placed to rule over them, and as the saviour of himself and his fellow-sufferers, and if he does not help them as the ruler appointed by God, there will be no help for them at all ; he prays that he may be allowed to return to Batavia.) (No.