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Jacob Alewijnsz. Tol circa 1600-1662 Lijsbet Dircx van der Piet 1626-1692 Jan Smit died 1696 Adriana Tol 1656-after 1722

Hilletje Smit 1 born 1691 2 baptized 1 April 1691, Cape Town 3 died 16 December 1760, Waveren 4 Notes: Although she later appears in the records as Hilletje, she was baptised Hulsie according to the Cape Town registers - perhaps this was the way the dominee heard her parents say her name? Throughout the baptisms of her own children her name is spelled in various ways, generally suggesling the pronunciation 'Heiljtje'. Around March 1705, aged fourteen, on her way home to her step- father's house in Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch, with a jug of beer that she had been sent out to fetch, she was waylaid by a slave, Jacob van de Cust Coromandel, who asked her to sleep with him. On being repulsed he told her he would force her. When she started to scream for help, he threatened to cut her throat, but she was rescued by the Freedman, Casper Vigier. On the 10th June 1705 Jacob was hanged and his body left hanging to rot as a mirror and deterrent for others. (From the account given in the records of the Council of Justice, Cape of Good Hope, CJ 782, 4). I have assumed that she is the same Hilletje Smit, wife of Matthias de Beer, whose Estate Accounts were drawn up in 1763, although only one of her children would be named for her side of the family.

married (1) 24 October 1705 at Stellenbosch 5 Matthijs Andriesz: de Beer wagonmaker (1705) 6

Helena b.1710 Samuel b.1711 Samuel b.1714 Maria Elisabeth b.1716 children Zacharias b.1719 Mattijs b.1721 Johanna Adriana 1724 - bef.1763 children Heijltje b.1726 Jan Jurgen b.1729

married (2) 3 April 1757 20 Jan Georg Zorn died after January 1761 21 Notes: He arrived as a soldier in 1739, worked as a farmhand from 1744 to 1748 and later as a tailor in Stellenbosch. His first marriage was to Maria du Plessis in 1749. (From: Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, by Dr. J. Hoge)

children of Hilletje Smit and Matthijs Andriesz: de Beer Helena de Beer born 1710 born 1710 7 baptized 1 June 1710, Drakenstein 8 Notes: Not mentioned in her mother's Estate Distribution Accounts of 1763, so presumably died before that without leaving heirs. Samuel de Beer born 1711 born 1711 9 baptized 1 September 1711, Stellenbosch 10 Notes: He presumably died before 1714 when a brother received the same name. Samuel de Beer born 1714 born 1714 11 baptized 20 May 1714, Stellenbosch 12 Notes: Francois Smit was one of the witnesses at his baptism. Not mentioned in his mother's Estate Distribution Accounts of 1763, so presumably died before that without leaving heirs. Maria Elisabeth de Beer born 1716 baptized 4 October 1716, Stellenbosch  married (1) unknown Zappel  married (2) Jan Hartmann 13 Zacharias de Beer born 1719 born 1719 14 baptized 5 March 1719, Stellenbosch 15 Notes: Alewijn Smit was one of the witnesses at his baptism. Mattijs de Beer born 1721 baptized 8 June 1721, Stellenbosch 16 Johanna Adriana de Beer 1724-before 1763 born 1724 baptized 6 February 1724, Drakenstein died before 1763, (noted as deceased in 1763 Estate Accounts)  married Jan Smit 17 Heijltje de Beer born 1726 baptized 29 December 1726, Stellenbosch 18 Notes: Not mentioned in her mother's Estate Distribution Accounts of 1763, so presumably died before that without leaving heirs. Jan Jurgen de Beer born 1729 baptized 26 June 1729, Stellenbosch 19 Notes: In his mother's Estate Accounts his name is given as 'Jan Jurgen' but he was baptised 'Johannes Jurge'.

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