Cape Council of Policy
610
1679-02-27
Minute details
- Entry number
- 610
- Date
- 1679-02-27
- Year
- 1679
English translation
On the 6th of this month, some envoys from the Hesse nation came to us with the message that they had been sent here expressly by their superiors to invite us to the cattle trade, with the assurance that for this purpose all their corals and negroes would gather at a certain place, locally called the Backeleijplaats, and that some of them were already on their way there (however, this invitation, in consideration of the fact that some people from our garrison had recently been sent inland to search for three fugitive Dutchmen, did not seem advisable for these reasons nor to send a larger quantity of people on hand) was postponed until after the expiration of 14 days, and our Meanwhile, the good news of peace has recently arrived from the fatherland, and it has also been noted that the rainy season is beginning to set in, which would seriously hinder our progress in that journey if we delayed any longer. It has therefore been decided not only to persist in our decision to undertake an exchange there, but also to allow it to proceed within one or two days, and to use Sergeant Lourens Visser and 18 experienced landed troops at his assistance, equipped with such mercenaries as are known to be most frequently employed by the aforementioned nation.
Thus arrested at Fort d'Goede Hoop, date above.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] JOHS. RAVENSBERGH.
[Signed:] Presenting me A. DE MAN, Secrets.
Thus arrested at Fort d'Goede Hoop, date above.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] JOHS. RAVENSBERGH.
[Signed:] Presenting me A. DE MAN, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Aangesien door eenige afgesanten van de Hessequaesnatie den 6 deser maant tot ons affgecomen, sijn bericht dat sij door haar overstens expres waren herwaarts gesonden om ons tot den veehandel uijt te noodigen met verseeckeringh dat tot dien eijnde alle hare coraalen en negereijen aan seeker oort, bij haar d’ Backeleijplaats genaamt, soude vergaderen, en reets enige daarvan na derwaarts al op wegh waren (doch dese uijtnoodinge uijt consideratie dat doenmaals eenigh volck van ons guarnisoen landtwaarts in gesonden waren tot opsoeckinge van drij fugitive Nederlanders, niet wel raadsaam scheen om dese en geene redenen noch meerder quantiteijt volck van d’ handt te senden) tot nae d’ expiratie van 14 dagen uijtgestelt, en ons inmiddels de heuglijcke tijdinge van vreede uijt ‘t vaderlandt onlancx toegecomen, mitsgaders daar besijden aangemerct sijnde dat ‘t regensaijsoen seer begin[t] ge naacken, ‘t welck ons bij langer uijtstel in die tocht merckelijck soude obsteren: Soo is niet alleen verstaan bij ons besluijt van een ruijling derwaarts t’ onderneemen te persisteren, maar oock goetgevonden deselve binnen 1 a 2 dagen te laten voortganck neemen en daar toe te gebruijcken den sergeant Lourens Visser met 18 ervaren landtgangers t’ sijnen adsistentie, versien met soodanige coopmanschappen als men weet bij de gemelte natie meest getrocken sijn.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] JOHS. RAVENSBERGH.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] JOHS. RAVENSBERGH.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.