Cape Council of Policy
296
1662-07-05
Minute details
- Entry number
- 296
- Date
- 1662-07-05
- Year
- 1662
English translation
The gardeners and slaves (who are present outside under the mountain in the E. Comps. bog garden) have informed us several times that their dwelling (in the same garden standing in front of the common main road) had become so dilapidated and run down due to old age that staying there any longer in this rainy, monsoonal and cold weather would not be possible. Therefore, they earnestly requested that it be decorated and made habitable again with the first weather. But because we found after a visit that helping and improving the same old straw house would be little or nothing, it was unanimously agreed and decided after careful deliberation to have the aforementioned old dilapidated house further demolished and the small stone redoubt. Coornhoop (which is situated a little more than a musket shot from it and has been left unoccupied for quite some time, as it is also unsuitable for longer, to demolish it completely, as well as the stone, wood and ironwork that might come off, on the other hand, another dwelling house in the said garden, of which as large above with a floor to be understood as the aforementioned old materials will stretch and be sufficient for this, so that when the work is completed, the lower part of it will be made available to the said gardeners and above a closed loft or room we can guard for ourselves236, so that when we sometimes cross the woods or arable lands in rain and wind, always by day or night, a better shelter and resting place (as long had been the case) there, especially since our workers, primarily masons, cannot, due to a shortage of stone, be assigned any other more necessary work than this.
Furthermore, it was also understood at this meeting that from now on, our senior sergeant and present warden of this fortress, Pieter Evrart, will take command in place of provisional Lieutenant Francois Tullekens (who, due to his impotence, had himself departed via Walcheren for Batavia on the third of this month at his own request) by way of provisional dedication to this garrison until a change in his person could be made, provided that he will be excused from helping to maintain the daily guard for so long, and that In addition, the aforementioned sergeant's office will be exercised.
Thus done and resolved on the date and year as above, in the Fort of Good Hope.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1662.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1662.
Furthermore, it was also understood at this meeting that from now on, our senior sergeant and present warden of this fortress, Pieter Evrart, will take command in place of provisional Lieutenant Francois Tullekens (who, due to his impotence, had himself departed via Walcheren for Batavia on the third of this month at his own request) by way of provisional dedication to this garrison until a change in his person could be made, provided that he will be excused from helping to maintain the daily guard for so long, and that In addition, the aforementioned sergeant's office will be exercised.
Thus done and resolved on the date and year as above, in the Fort of Good Hope.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1662.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1662.
Original Dutch transcription
De hoveniers en de slaven (die tegenwoordigh buijten onder ‘t geberchte in des E. Comps. bogaert bescheijden zijn) ons diversche malen te kennen gegeven hebbende dat in haer woonhuijs (in deselve thuijn voor aen de gemeene heerewegh staende) door ouderdom nu soo vergaen en leek geworden was, dat haer in dit regen-mousson en koude weer langer daerin te blijven niet behelpen en conden, dierhalven versochten gants ernstelijck dat haer ‘t selve doch met den eersten weder wat versien en woonbaer gemaeckt mocht werden, Maer omdat wij na genomen visite bevinden dat aen ‘t selve oude stroijehuijs met helpen en verbeteren weijnigh off niet te doen sal wesen, Is na goed overlegh hierin eenpaerigh verstaen en vast gestelt ‘t gemelte oude vervallen huijs voorts onder de voet te laten halen ende de kleijne steene redout Coornhoop (die weijnigh meer dan een musquetschoot daervandaen gelegen ende geruijmen tijt als langer ondienstigh oock onbeset gelaten zij t’ enemael aff te breken mitsgaders van de steenen, hout en ijserwerck dat ‘er affcomen moght, daerentegen een ander woonhuijs in gemelte thuijn, daervan soo groot boven met een verdiepingh te begrijpen, als de voorsz oude materialen hiertoe sullen strecken en toereijcken willen, als wanneer nae volbrachten werck ‘t onderste gedeelte van ‘t selve tot gebruijck van gemelte thuijniers sullen overgeve ende boven een verslooten solder off camer voor ons selffs bewaden236 cunnen, op dat wij wanneer somtijts de bossen off bouwlanden in regen en wint doorcruijssende altijt ‘t sij bij dagh off nacht, een beter schuijl en rust-plaets (als dus langh gehad) aldaer cunnen vinden, te meer onse arbeijts-lieden voornamelijck metselaers voor tegenwoordigh door gebreck van steen aen geen ander noodiger werck als hier toe stellen cunnen.
Wijders is oock te deser vergaderingh verstaen dat men voortaen onsen outsten sergiant ende tegenwoordigh waghtmeester deser fortresse genaempt Pieter Evrart het commando in plaets van den provisionelen lieutenant Francois Tullekens (die vermits sijn impotentie als op sijn eijgen versoeck op den derden deser per Walcheren na Batavia hebben laten vertrecken) bij provisie over dit guarnisoen soo lange te deffereren, totdat hierin veranderingh in sijn perzoon gedaen mocht werden, mits deselve soo lange van de dagelijcxe wacht te helpen opvoeren geexcuseert blijven, en eenelijck daerbenevens sijn voorsz wachtmeestersampt ex-erceren sal.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert ten dage ende jare als boven, in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1662.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1662.
Wijders is oock te deser vergaderingh verstaen dat men voortaen onsen outsten sergiant ende tegenwoordigh waghtmeester deser fortresse genaempt Pieter Evrart het commando in plaets van den provisionelen lieutenant Francois Tullekens (die vermits sijn impotentie als op sijn eijgen versoeck op den derden deser per Walcheren na Batavia hebben laten vertrecken) bij provisie over dit guarnisoen soo lange te deffereren, totdat hierin veranderingh in sijn perzoon gedaen mocht werden, mits deselve soo lange van de dagelijcxe wacht te helpen opvoeren geexcuseert blijven, en eenelijck daerbenevens sijn voorsz wachtmeestersampt ex-erceren sal.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert ten dage ende jare als boven, in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1662.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1662.