History of Demerary related to Jacob Schattenkerk
Updated 3 January 2021
Summary
In this page more detail about the relationship between my ancestor Jacob Schattenkerk (1773-1841) son of the Schattenkerk-Eeftinck family with Essequebo-Demerary (now part of Guyana).
I want to express my thanks to Paul Koulen for his article in Gen. (Journal for family history of the CBG ( Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie) (* 6)) Furthermore, Paul has been very helpful in providing additional information from various sources. Also thanks to Tim Kooijmans (researcher in the team of Professor Dr. Abe de Jong.) Abe de Jong is professor of corporate finance and governance at the Rotterdam School of Management part of the Erasmus University. With this focus he investigates the history of plantations in the Dutch colonies around the mid-eighteenth century. (* 1)
Summary
Jacob Schattenkerk married in 1805 Maria Cornelia Bellij, born in Demerary and adopted daughter of the couple Charles Desbarats and Maria Catharina Blondel. The latter was a daughter of planter Jan Blondel and Cornelia Appelkrans. The Frenchman Desbarats was, among other things, owner of the coffee plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture and later, through his wife, part owner and manager of the plantation Blygezigt. The Desbarats-Blondel couple left for Europe in 1790, lived in Bordeaux in 1796 and later settled in the Netherlands where Desbarats died in Maarssen in 1808.
Jacob was a cousin of Willem Eeftinck (born approx. 1749 in Arnhem). Uncle Willem was a planter in Demerary and married Johanna Elisabeth Blondel , a sister of Maria Desbarats - Blondel. Since 1776 the Blondel sisters owned part of the Blijgezigt plantation from their parents estate. Eeftinck took over the management of that plantation from his brother-in-law before 1786. He eventually became full owner of Blygezigt together with his wife. In 1794 he returned to the Netherlands and the couple with son Jean Charles Philippe settled in Zwammerdam (now municipality of Alphen a / d Rijn) where he died in 1802.
In 1815 he and his wife inherited from the widow Desbarats-Blondel. The estate included a mortgage on, among other things, the plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture and the right of 500 acres of land, used by the Sabbathier heirs.
At the end of 1816 the widow Eeftinck-Blondel also died while her only son was already deceased at a young age. Jacob was heir together with a sister of Eeftinck. The inheritance included a piece of land next to the Blygezigt plantation at the Hayama creek located upstream in the Demerary river and the substantial Buitendorp house in Zwammerdam.
Jacob, who was executor of the will, sold Blygezigt in 1818 and in 1820 tried to collect agrued interest from the estate of the widow Desbarats. In 1828 L 'Heureuse Avanture was put up for sale with the proceeds with which he hopefully was compensated.
First something about the history of Demerary and the surrounding area.
Demerary (Demerarije Demerary, English: Demerara, French Demerari) was formally a Dutch colony until 1814, named after two rivers on the north-east coast of South America. Also called the " Wilde coast ". The river Demerary (346 km long and east of the even larger river Essequibo) was opened in 1745 by the WIC (Dutch West Indie Company) for the navigation, construction and exploitation of plantations. The colony grew rapidly and in the period 1760-1780 Demerary outnumbered Essequibo in economic importance and number of planters. The Demerary administrative center was established on Borsselen, an island in the river, shortly after it opened. During the American struggle for independence (1775-1783), in which the Netherlands chose the American side, the colony was briefly occupied by the English in 1781, after which it fell into French hands in 1782. At that time a small settlement at the mouth of the Demerary River, called Longchamps or Nouvelle Ville, was formed and the island of Borsselen was abandoned for government purposes. After the return of the colony to the Netherlands in 1784, the town was renamed Stabroek after one of the directors of the WIC.
1773 map of d Anville. Overview of Dutch Colonies on the
so called
" Wilde coast ".
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The Director General would from now on reside in Stabroek, Demerary, while Essequibo had to make do with a commander. In 1789 the colony was reunited under the leadership of a governor based in Stabroek. In 1791 the WIC was disbanded and the administration came into the hands of a state councilor. After 1795, the intervention of ex Stadtholder William V, who saw the English as an ally, led to political unrest between Patriots and Orangists, resulting in the Orangist
governor fled. After the British reoccupied the colony from 1796 to December 3, 1802, they returned Demerary, Essequibo and nearby Berbice to the Batavian Republic at the Peace of Amiens, but in September 1803 they re-occupied the colony. In 1812 they renamed the capital Stabroek Georgetown. At the London conference in 1814 it was agreed to cede Essequibo-Demerary and Berbice to the United Kingdom. The treaty was effectively enacted in 1815. In 1838 the colony became British Guiana (in Indian: land of many rivers) and in 1966 the colony became an independent state in the British Commonwealth under the name Guyana.
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Map of Schey 1770 showing the river Demeray. In yellow the island of Borsselen, then the administrative center and the Hayama plot of land that was in Eeftinck's estate. The plantation Blygezigt is not yet indicated here and is located on the coast near the east side (top) of the mouth of the river. See paragraph Bijgezigt.
About Willem Eeftinck in Demerary.
The name Eeftinck has many spelling variants such as Eefting, Effinck, Eftinck, Efting, Eftink, Ettink (Estink probably also occurs as a transcription error).
Click here for a partial genealogy of Eeftinck
1780 April 27. For Willem Eeftinck, a piece of land of 125 fields ("akkers") located at the mouth of the creek Coerabana on the coast east of the Demerary river is measured according to a note on transport deed 39 dated December 22, 1783 (* 1)
1780 September 26. The first real sign of life of Willem Eeftinck from Demerary comes from a letter dated 26 September 1780, captured by the British, written by him from the administrative center, the island of Borsselen in the Demerary river. In the letter addressed to his parents in Arnhem he tells, among other things, that he has courtshipwith a lady he wants to marry, but that her guardian does not think he is a good match. He goes on to write: Since some time we can see each other daily, we are so engaged to each other that I and the lady, for her part, do not want to cancel us getting married. She must have became his later wife Johanna E. Blondel, who was about 19 years old (* 2) at the time. A piece of land belonging to the Blondel's heirs was located close to Willem's, on which the latter was busy growing cotton at that time. More about the letter ....
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1785. The name of Willem Eeftinck appears under a request, written on June 10, 1785, from the planters and citizens of the colony of Essequibo and Demerary, a request and memorial to the States-General, to be able to show the high and mighty gentlemen the impossibility that this colony can remain longer under the administration of the West Indian Company, and that it is therefore felt with all respect that a change of administration is necessary. (source: Missive Gemtleman Thienen 1786 P15 ) In the same year he also appears on a handwritten list of names of owners of plantations in Demerary with the nationality of the Dutch and comments about the person (* 7). He is mentioned as "former carpenter".
1788- Willem Eeftinck was married after the letter from 1780 (when?) To Johanna Elisabeth Blondel (b. approx. 1761 Demerary) from which around 1788 a son named Jean Charles Philippe Eeftinck was born.
1791. Willem Eeftinck makes a will in Demerary in which he cites his forthcoming departure as the reason.
See here ....
1793. Only at the end of that year does Willem Eeftinck actually prepare to leave Demerary. (source: Essequibo and Demeraria Courant No. 9, Vol. I.29 December 1793: "Those who have anything to pretend from the undersigned, were asked to submit their pretentions in order to be paid , and those owe him. to come and pay their debts on the plantation Blygezigt before the 15th of January 1794.Because after that day it is intended to leave to Europe. Also is still for sale, Dutch meat in half barrels, gold rings and lock, silver belt buckles
and snuff boxes, spoons and forks, mahogany drawer tables and play tables, tea and tobacco boxes, drats and chess plates with its accessories: Saxsisch porcelain coffee and tea tableware, ditto bowls and chamber pots etc. Plantagie Blygezigt December 27, 1793. Wm. Eftinck "..
1794. Eeftinck leaves in April. (source: Essequibo and Demerari Courant. (No. 23.) April 6, 1794. (Vol. 1.) "List of the ships to the home county is now anchoring at the mouth of this river. The ship the Bravery Capt. J Marcussen heading tor Amsterdam: Passengers with them, de Heeren W. Estinck and C. Cart ". Is he traveling with his wife and son or have they left earlier ?
1795 Eeftinck buys the house Buitendorp just outside the South Holland village of Zwammerdam, in the direction of Alphen aan den Rijn.
1799: A last sign of life from Willem Eeftinck.
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Message from the Eeftinck-Blondel couple in the guestbook of the Biljoen ornamental garden near Velp (Source: J. Holwerda of the Groenverleden foundation)
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1802. 1802. On January 3 that year, Eeftinck died in Zwammerdam. According to the obituary, he had been struggling with a painful illness for several years. He leaves behind his wife and 14 year old son.
At the beginning of February, the Buitendorp homestead was put up for sale in an foreclosure auction to be held on the 27th of that month by a certain J.C. Oto, broker from Amsterdam. (ref. a.o. the Oprechte Haarlemsche courant of 11 February) That announcement is withdrawn 2 days later. It seems like a tough action by a moneylender to put pressure on the widow. This may have to do with a mortgage on Buitendorp and/or the Blygezigt plantation. It is guesswork for now.
About the Blygezigt plantation in chronological order.
NB there are many writing variants for the plantation: Blij gezicht (happy face), Blygezigt, Blygezight, Blijzigt, Bly zigt. I have used the current spelling in Guyana namely Blygezigt except for direct quotes. The meaning in this context will not have been the happy face of the owner, but something like Nice view.
Map NA-1494 from 1759, NA-1514 from 1767, NA-1497B from 1783 and NA-1498B from 1784. Yellow is Blygezigt, red is the new administrative center, the settlement Longchamp here indicated as Nouvelle Ville, later renamed Stabroek (* 5)
1759 The 1759 map does not yet show a plantation on the East coast near the mouth of the Demerary, where Blygezigt would later come.
1767 Eight years later, map NA-1514 shows a 500-acre plot of land with Blondel as owner. His right neighbor is listed as Leary
1772. The plantation Blygezigt (Blyzigt) located on the Oostwal (East shore) of the river Demerarij between the lands of Cornelius Leary & Andries Verbiest with the same slaves, buildings, planting and planting is sold on February 4, 1772 to Jozeph de la Chau and Diederik Paridon Meijer for the sum of 40,000 guilders. Jan Blondel is mentioned as the first owner (* 1) NB The mortgage on Blygezigt van Blondel started on February 20, 1769 according to the mortgage deed of 1772, but in the previous deed of sale that date was set at November 27, 1771. The plantation was 500 acres in size and there worked 29 slaves (* 1).
1776. Apparently the plantation is now back in the possession of Jan Blondel who, following an inheritance issue, transports half of the property on June 27, 1776 to his children with Cornelia Appelkrans's his deceased wife. Blondel has since remarried and continues to manage the plantation as guardian. The number of slaves has now increased significantly to 50. (* 1)
1780. Jan Blondel died in 1779 and son-in-law Charles Desbaratz, charged as principal of the will and guardian of the two minor children Blondel from a previous relationship. The widow Blondel, Maria Cornelia van Elzen, is next to the children also a heiress. After much haggling, Blijgezigt fell to the children and the location at the creek Coerabana to the widow now was remarried to Mr Buttler. (*2)
1783.NA-1497B Detail of the Blygezigt plantation owned by the Blondel heirs. (* 5)
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1783-1784 On card NA-1497B Blondel is mentioned as owner, but on card 1498B the name of Desbarats is mentioned as husband of Maria Catharina Blondel. Flanked in both maps by plantations of (De) Saffon on the left and Cumming on the right. Map NA-1497B seems to be very different from the others, but I suspect it only shows the previously cultivated part and the others. the land property.
1786 detail from Map UBM: Map etc .: 102.18.03 UVA
1786. On a map of that year the name Etting or Eftink (by which Willem Eeftinck will be meant) appears as plantation owner and / or partial owner and manager of Blygezigt. Presumably he was now married to the second daughter from the marriage Blondel-Appelkrans Johanna Elisabeth. It seems likely that he had bought out the other two children Blondel a brother (name unknown) and Maria Catharina Desbarats-Blondel.
On a map of 1792 his name mentioned with Blygezigt is indicated as Wm. Eftinck.
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1794 Eeftinck leaves the colony. It is not yet known who manages the plantation in his absence.
1802. Willem Eeftinck dies. Blygezigt's property is in his estate.
UVA map from 1798 (Willem Eftink at nr 73, Blygezigt) and the map of Swaen from 1802 (Rotterdam library)
1804 Shortly after Demerary is occupied by the English again, the plantation Blygezigt is offered for sale by a certain Pieter Willem Prins (source: Essequebo and Demerary Gazette 1804 March 03 "By JC Otto a Amsterdam is for sale out of hand, the plantation Blygezigt, located between the plantations de Ketty and Bel Air a Demerary, under conditions of relief, for the purchase tokens to the satisfaction of the seller, without interfering in an exchange of letters. Demerary the 1 Jan. 1804. PW Prins, q. q " No report was found that the plantation was actually sold at the time. Initially it seemed that Prins owned the plantation (* 4), but that is not the case, as will be apparent from the sequel. A probable reason is that the plantation was considered collateral for a mortgage and Mr Otto is behind this action on behalf of a financier as happened with Buitendorp (see above)
1811-1812. There are reports indicating that F.N. Sabbathier (* 3) operates in Blygezigt. (Source: Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette, August 31, 1811 and November 14, 1812)
1813. In an overview table from the Essequibo and Demerary Royal Gazette of 1815 that refers back to the situation in 1813, it is stated that Blygezigt only produced cotton at the time at 37,788 thousand pounds that year with a slave occupation of 95. Bel-Air only produces sugar and partly Rum, the Kitty also produces that also but cotton as well. Considering the tax, the Kitty is about three times as big as Blygezigt and Bel Air twice as big. See here......
1814. On August 13, the London conference following the defeat of Napoleon decided to hand over the colony of Essequibo-Demerara and Berbice to England. With the status clearly arranged, it's time to get back to business in Demerary. Cousin Jacob Schattenkerk, who is appointed as representative of the widow Eeftinck in place of Mr. Otto Zie hier ..., has put together a local management team for Blygezigt consisting of François Nicolas Sabbathier (* 3) and Jacob Schoemaker instead of P.W. Prince. This shows that the plantation is still in the possession of the widow Eeftinck and that Mr. Prins apparently had a role as administrator. From which time the duo Otto and Prins left the service it is not stated in the relevant deeds that it was before 1812 (* 4). Taking into account the failed attempts to sell Buitendorp and Blygezigt in 1802 and 1804 respectively, the assumption seems likely that a supposed mortgage lender was satisfied with the proceeds of Blygezigt and that mortgage had now been paid off. If so, then it is logical to assume that the financier had already exercised control through Mr Otto from 1804. Question: Who was in charge of the plantation before 1804?
1816. The results of the management team apparently leave much to be desired and Sabbathier is replaced by Gerrit Timmerman. The goal of the new team is to claim Sabbathier's account and accountability for its administration in recent years and the general condition of Blygezigt, to collect owed income from it and generally take over management,
See here....
The widow Eeftinck died on December 19 that year in Zwammerdam. The majority of her estate goes equally to her cousin Jacob Schattenkerk and sister-in-law Barendina Eeftinck. Jacob is appointed executor of the will.
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1818. The actions of the new management team of Blygezigt result in sales as seen below in the Royal Gazette of Demerary and Essiquebo volL. XIII. No. 1157. March 21, 1818. "AT the Commissary Court of the 6th April, 1818, the following transport and mortgages will be passed by J. Schoemaker and G. Timmerman, qq the heirs of Mrs. the widow Efting, transport of plantation Blygezigt , with all the cultivation thereon, to Messrs. Rodie and Shand, and John Staunton. " Full. XIII. No. 1196.June 20, 1818. "AT the Commissary Court of the 6th of July, 1818, the following transports and mortgages will be passed: - By Jacobus Schoemaker, qq the heirs of Efftink, transport of a piece of land, situated in Hayama Creek, in favor or FCH Kuster. " This is the end of the story regarding Schattenkerk. The plantation Blygezigt and another field owned by Uncle Eeftinck has been sold by his management team. (* 4)
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Detail of a map from 1823 (rotated 180 degrees due to similarity with the others). The canal indicated as the Cumming Canal (after a previous owner) has apparently been extended. I assume that the numbering of the plantations has remained the same. The relative sizes of the different maps are quite different. Finally the situation of April 2015 (mapcarta.com/19104344)
Further information about plantation Blygezigt:
1821. Blygezigt is put up for sale again (source: London Gazette, April 3, 1821) "In the month of March 1822, the sugar plantation Bel Air and Blygezigt, situated on the East Coast of the colony of Demerary, taken in execution at the suit of EJI Henery versus And. C. Johnstone. "
1824-1825 In a number of Dutch newspapers, including the NRC, advertisements in English appear about the imminent foreclosure sale of several plantations, including Blygezigt. . See ad ..
1833 The British Parliamentary Papers of January 1833 show Bel Air and Blygezigt merged. They produce sugar and employ 209 slaves, 121 of whom are men
1835. Blygezigt and nearby Bel Air are in the possession of Charles and William Shand Parliamentary papers p.120 T71/885
1943 The area of Bel Air, Blygezigt and their neighboring plantations on the east coast is now owned by the Corentyne Sugar Company, Ltd. Only a small part is used for cane sugar production. The rest consists of some scattered rice fields, grass and other fields and houses. Georgetown is advancing! ref Cheddi Jagan Research Centre
Regarding the Desbarats-Blondel couple and their legacy
The Frenchman Charles Desbarats (Spelling variants: Debaratz, Desbarratz and transcription error: Desbarets, DS Barats, Desmarestz) was, like Willem Eeftinck, planter in Demararary. His original profession was land surveyor according to a list of names from 1785. There are seven maps in the National Archives, predominantly of the west side of the Demerary, entirely or partly by his hand, made around 1776. One of inv. 1510 shows his own plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture (Aventure) on the south side of canal 1. See below left
Left NA-1510 from 1776 in blue plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture then owned by Desbarats with signature of the surveyors.
Right NA-1498B from 1792 owned by the Sabathier family in blue. Blygezigt in yellow. L 'Heureuse Avanture above. (* 5)
Desbarats married the planter's daughter Maria Catharina Blondel, from which a son was born in 1783. Because of his marriage and as executor of Jan Blondel's estate, he was initially regarded as the owner of the Blygezigt plantation, which had been partly owned by his wife since 1776 (* 2).
Just like Eeftinck, Desbarats, after the colony was again under Dutch rule in 1784, signed the request to the States General of 1785. In 1786 his name appears in connection with a lawsuit lost by him over the ownership of him and Mr Azemar of a coffee plantation called L'Observator, located on the north side of channel 1 and a little more west of L 'Heureuse Avanture. He was a member of the electoral college and left the colony in 1790. (The journal of the Royal Agricultural and commercial Society of British Guiana p. 343/344) See here for advertisements about the plantations other than Blygezigt that Desbarats had to deal with.
In 1796, the Desbarats-Blondel couple are in Bordeaux and travel to Hamburg with adopted daughter Maria Cornelia Bellij, the later wife of Jacob Schattenkerk and the then 9-year-old Nicolas Sabathier (* 3) (source: Archives Departementales Bordeaux Collection Passeports. April 1, 1796 "Charles Desbarats avec son epouse Marie Catherine Blondel, sa fille adoptive Marie Corneille Belly et Nicolas Sabathier age de 9 ans"
"Charles Desbarats avec son epouse Marie Catherine Blondel, sa fille adoptive Marie Corneille Belly et Nicolas Sabathier age de 9 ans" See .....
The couple moved to the Netherlands in Maarsen where Desbarats died in 1808 . Then his widow moved to Zwammerdam where she went to live in a house next to that of her sister Johanna. The Schattenkerk-Bellij and Johanna couple each inherited half of the main part of her estate in 1815, but Johanna only received the use of her part after which after her death in December 1816, fell to the Schattenkerk-Bellij couple.
See here for their will
Possessions of Desbarats in Demerary after his departure in 1790
1792. The properties of Desbarats described above now belong to François Sabbathier. The latter was not yet on the planters list in 1784. I have not yet found information about the sale.
In the estate of the widow Desbarats to the Schattenkerk-Bellij couple, according to the list of property rights at the start of the transfer to England mentioned in the introduction, is a mortgage from April 1790 (the year Desbarats leaves the colony) on ( part of?) the plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture covers 60 fields and another 500 fields north of the canal. Both at that time owned by the Sabbathier heirs. (see map from 1798 above) The annual interest is 8% of 13.504 guilders = 1.080, -. guilders per year Now it appears in 1814, 24 years after the conclusion of the agreement, that there is an outstanding amount of 14,273 guilders. So, in fact, payments have been made for about 10 years, but not 14 years, or underpayments have been made every year in 24 years, so that in 1814 there is a payment corresponding to 14 years of annuity. . (source: P. Koulen mail 1-4-2015)
1805. There is also another mortgage established in 1805 on the plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture south of the Sabathier canal or probably an extension of it large 250 fields by Messrs Doekscheer and Steenbergen. (source: P. Koulen mail 1-4-2015)
1804. The original owner of the collateral François Sabbathier died in 1804.
1807 In the Essequibo and Demerary Royal Gazette of June 13, 1807 the following advertisement appears "By F. Martin qq C. Desbratz Transport half of a Concession or plot of land emptied on the north side of the Canal No 1, on the widow Sabbathier, and from them to Otto & La Haye
It seems like a curious construction in which Desbarats transports a piece of land to the widow Sabathier, who hands it over to Otto & La Haye or their client.
A possible explanation for this double transport construction is that the Sabbathier family had used the soil and that the soil had become more valuable through their cultivation. They will then only have paid Desbarats a fee for the bare concession and a rent for the use of the land. The second sale will have served to pay off a debt.
I note that Desbarates apparently had even more land than the one he handed over to Sabbathier in 1790 and for which he himself provided the mortgage. Which are they and why are they not on the maps ?
1807 The widow Sabbathier, Maria Barbe Voiturier, remarried that year to Eugene Henry Tempest. She died before 1816. Two sons from the first marriage, Louis and François Nicolas Sabbathier, named under Blygezigt, were the likely heirs of the plantation. (P. Koulen mail 1-4-2015)
1813. In an overview map from the Essequibo and Demerary Royal Gazette of 1815 that refers back to the situation in 1813, it is stated that L 'Heureuse Avanture produced 10,200 thousand pounds of coffee with an occupation of 43 slaves. See here.....
1820. After publication of the property rights around 1819, the Schattenkerk-Bellij couple appointed Arend Hendrik Walstab in Demerarij as agent to claim arrears and / or interest on the said mortgages from the estate. See here..
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1828. Apparently it is not possible to claim the arrears. Schattenkerk is now passing a deed specifically aimed at the sale of the loan or collateral by the same Mr. Walstab.
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1828 Probably through action by Walstab, the plantation l 'Heureuse Avanture 150 acres in size was offered for sale by the local government in October 1828 on 23 September 1829 with a call to rights holders to register. See advertisement.. It is unknown whether Schattenkerk received what he believed he was entitled to.
I couldn't find anything about the sale of the mortgage on the 500-acre piece of land north of channel 1.
1833 in de Britse Parliamentary Papers van januari 1833 l 'Heureuse Avanture still appears to produce coffee. They employ 71 slaves, 45 of whom are men.
Note *1 For my attempt to transcribe the received old documents about Blygezigt via professor de Jong see here ..
Note *2) About the history of the Blondel family through marriage closely associated with both Willem Eeftinck and Charles Desbaratz. see here .. .
Note *3) François Nicolas Sababbathier (name variants: Sabathier and Sabatthier) was accompanied in 1796 by the Desbararats-Blondel couple in Europe in 1796, possibly in connection with his education. He is almost certainly the son of François Sababbathier until his death in 1804, the owner of the plantation L 'Heureuse Avanture. This personal relationship may have been a reason for sister-in-law Johanna Eeftinck-Blondel to charge him with supervision of the Blygezigt plantation after his return to Demerary..
Note *4) Because, very confusingly, there is a Cornelia Efting in the Prins family and there is mention of the death of the widow Prins in 1818, the year of sale of Blygezigt, during the investigation there was a theory that has since been proven incorrect that Prins had taken ownership of the plantation at some time and in any way.
Note *5) The maps marked NA-xxx come from the General National Archives, The Hague, Collection of Foreign Maps Leupe, number access 4.VEL, inventory number xxxx unless stated otherwise.
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Regarding the sizes: The Surinamese "field" that one will have used in Demerary in the WIC time was equal to 0.43 hectare or 10 square chain (1 chain is 66 Rhenish feet, 20.72 meters ). The current Anglo-Saxon acre is slightly smaller at 0.401 hectares. The map from 1823 comes from the English Wikipedia de Engelse wikipedia
Note *6) Journal for family history of the CBG ( Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie), Volume 21 number 1 March 2015. "Dutch interests in Berbice, Demerara and Essequebo". The article mentioned is partly based on an English overview from 1815 of a "list of Dutch proprietors of plantations in Demerara, Essquibo and Berbice", published in 1818-1819 (Colonial office 111/28, National Archives London) More ...
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Note *7). Found on the internet an attachment to a letter from presumably an official of Demerary of owners of one or more Plantations, who were in Demerarij in July 1785 (the time of the Requeste and Memorie to the States General) with rather frank qualifications. More..
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My connection with Willem-Eeftinck over 7 generations is as follows: Schattenkerk- Eeftinck (she is a sister of Willem) / Schattenkerk-Bellij / Eeftinck Schattenkerk - Kwakernaak / Eeftinck Schattenkerk - Boers / Hees - Eeftinck Schattenkerk / De Jongh - Hees / De Bie - De Jongh / Henk de Bie.
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