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Daniel Zaaijman 1 of Cape Town 2 born Flushing 3 died 1713, most probably, and presumably during the smallpox epidemic 4 Notes: Prior to coming to the Cape around 1708, he had lived with his family on the island of Mauritius, then a Dutch East India Company Settlement, where they had grown sweet potatotes on the Lemoenboomvlakte. In 1696 he had two slaves to help him and they were expected to plant out 1000 half-aums of sweet potatoes each year and then dig up the crop. The Comander at Mauritius suggests that for this they really need about 30 or 40 slaves. Upon the abandonment of the settlement on Mauritius, he was one of the freemen who elected to go to the Cape (rather than to Batavia) (Source: Leibbrandt - Letters Received 1695-1708, pages 92, 168 & 453) On the 11th March 1711 he and his son, Pieter Zaaijman, informed the Burgerraad that they were planning to move from the Cape District to that of Stellenbosch and received permission to do so. (1 STB 15/2) At the time of his death he owned a house and yard in the Table Valley, block gg, numbers 11 and 12. This house was sold from his estate to Jan Jacob Stockvliet in March of the following year. His household goods seem to have been minimal, a bed, mattress and pillows plus some table and kitchen ware. Apart from these, a large stock of silver buttons (58) and trouser fittings perhaps indicates that he dealt in these? There is also a chest with coopering tools, perhaps another trade he or one of his five slaves, practised. His children are listed in the order given in the documents below. (Source: Inventory dated 1st December 1714, MOOC 8/3, and Deceased Estate Accounts dated 15th June 1717, MOOC 13/1/1, 89)

married Pieternella Meerhof died 1713

Catharina d.bef.1715 children Eva d.bef.1714 children Magdalena d.bef.1709 children Maijke d.1713 children Pieter children Daniel c1698 - 1725 Johannes b.1704 Christiaan b.1708

children of Daniel Zaaijman and Pieternella Meerhof Catharina Zaaijman died before 1715 died before 1715  married Roelof Diodati 5 died before 1729 Eva Zaaijman died before 1714 died before 1714  married (1) Herbert Jans van der Meyden 6  married (2) 30 September 1711 Stellenbosch Johannes Smit 7 1683-1714 Magdalena Zaaijman died before 1709 died before 1709  married Johannes Bocklenbergh 8 circa 1668-circa 1709 surgeon (1699) Maijke Zaaijman died 1713 born Mauritius died 1713, probably during the smallpox epidemic  married Hendrik Abrahamsz de Vries 9 1676-1744 Pieter Zaaijman born Mauritius  married 10 January 1712 Stellenbosch Anna Maria Coopman 10 born 1695 Daniel Zaaijman circa 1698-1725 sailor in the emply of the Dutch East India Co. 11 born circa 1698, Mauritius 12 died 15 July 1725, in the far east, probably Ceylon 13 Notes: He made his profession of belief on 16 August 1718 to become a member of the Cape Town NG Church with Johanna van Es, wife of Hendrik de Vries as his witness. On 29th November 1718 he applied to the Council of Policy to enter the service of the Dutch East India Company to try his fortune in India, saying that he was at present a ward of the Orphan Chamber and very poor. (source: Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Requesten (1715-1806), by H.C.V. Leibbrandt) Johannes Zaaijman born 1704 born 28 January 1704, Mauritius 14 baptized 17 February 1709, Cape Town 15 Notes: He had presumably died before 1714, since he is not named in the the inventory drawn up after the death of his father, Daniel Zaaijman. Christiaan Zaaijman born 1708 born 27 March 1708, Mauritius 16 baptized 17 February 1709, Cape Town 17

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