Cape Council of Policy
127
1657-10-27
Minute details
- Entry number
- 127
- Date
- 1657-10-27
- Year
- 1657
English translation
Today the Commander has inspected a certain copse, lying approximately three hours' walk from here, northwards in the corner of the forest hill against the forest mountains southwards below the Taeffelbergh, pointed out by the free carpenter Leendert Cornelisz van Zevenhuijsen and requested from him to have it for himself, with the privilege that no one but him may take any wood from it; to be used for good cause, without desecration, but for the improvement of the copse and for the convenience of the E. Compe. and freemen to cut and supply all kinds of planks, bricks, ribs, etc., at their own expense.
Having considered this entirely necessary and without the burden of the E. Compe, it would be very convenient for him to acquire the aforementioned piece of forest, along with a plot of 20 morgen of land located approximately on the aforementioned forest hill against the forest hills, for cultivation; provided that, in the place of this agreed-upon time, he must remain a freeman for at least 15 years and summon his wife from the homeland at the first opportunity, as granted in the free letter.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, date as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
Having considered this entirely necessary and without the burden of the E. Compe, it would be very convenient for him to acquire the aforementioned piece of forest, along with a plot of 20 morgen of land located approximately on the aforementioned forest hill against the forest hills, for cultivation; provided that, in the place of this agreed-upon time, he must remain a freeman for at least 15 years and summon his wife from the homeland at the first opportunity, as granted in the free letter.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, date as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
Original Dutch transcription
Heden den Commandeur hebbende wesen besightigen seecker bosschagie, stijff 3 uijren gaens van hier leggende N. waerts in de hoeck van den bosheuvel tegen de bosbergen Z. waerts beneden den Taeffelbergh , aengewesen door den vrij timmerman Leendert Cornelisz van Zevenhuijsen ende bij hem versocht ‘t selve voor sigh te mogen hebben, met privilegie dat niemandt als hij daer eenigh hout uijt sal mogen halen; om tot goeden oirbaer, sonder schendinge, maer tot verbeteringe van do. bosschagie te gebruijcken ende daer uijt tot gerieff van d’ E. Compe. ende vrijeluijden op eijgen costen te saegen ende leveren alderhande plancken, blicken, ribben404 etc.,
Soo is ingesien sulx gansch nootsaeckelijck sij, ende buijten last van d’ E. Compe. seer gerieffelijck sal vallen hem ‘t selve stuck bos ten eijnde voorsz toegestaen ende vergunt, neffens oock een perck van 20 mergen lants, daer omtrent op voorsz bosheuvel tegen de bosbergen gelegen om te bebouwen; mits in plaetse van desselffs verbonden tijt hier in vrijdom te woonen nu ten minsten 15 jaren sal moeten vrijman blijven ende sijn vrouw met d’ eerste gelegentheijt uijt ‘t vaderlandt ontbieden, volgens de vrijbrieff hem verleendt.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
Soo is ingesien sulx gansch nootsaeckelijck sij, ende buijten last van d’ E. Compe. seer gerieffelijck sal vallen hem ‘t selve stuck bos ten eijnde voorsz toegestaen ende vergunt, neffens oock een perck van 20 mergen lants, daer omtrent op voorsz bosheuvel tegen de bosbergen gelegen om te bebouwen; mits in plaetse van desselffs verbonden tijt hier in vrijdom te woonen nu ten minsten 15 jaren sal moeten vrijman blijven ende sijn vrouw met d’ eerste gelegentheijt uijt ‘t vaderlandt ontbieden, volgens de vrijbrieff hem verleendt.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.