He takes his discharge and becomes a free burgher

15 August 1690 · family · Cape Colony / South Africa

[SRC-095] "Datum uit dienst 15-08-1690. Waar uit dienst: Kaap de Goede Hoop. Reden uit dienst: VRIJBURGER." Five years and three months in the Company's service, and then he stops being a servant and starts being a settler. EVERY PERSON IN THIS PROJECT DESCENDS FROM THAT DECISION. In the same year the ship that carried him out was lost near the Shetland Islands on her fifth homeward voyage.

Who is on record here

• 1665 Johannes "Jan" Oosthuijsz (stamvader)

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• OOSTHUIJSZ Johan - van Woerden, adelborst, 1685 NL-HaNA 1.04.02 (VOC 1602-1811), inventarisnummer 5331, folio 215

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• subject The muster roll