Dirk Jansz Smient was governor of Mauritius in the new settlement at Grand Port from 1666 to 1669, when he returned to Cape of Good Hope. He was replaced...
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century and is of uncertain origin. It is believed to be related to the Dutch smient ("wigeon") and the German Schmeiente or Schmünte, "wild duck." It is probably...
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Smient administered the new colony at Port de Warwick, with the cutting down and export of ebony trees as the main activity. When Dirk Jansz Smient left...
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Edam 38 Cornelis Gerritszoon Burger Captured (A) Schager Roos 38 Joosten Smient (A) Asperen 36 Adriaan van Veen (A) Vollenhoven 30 Hendrik Haeckroy (A)...
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island to be held accountable to the VOC for his actions.: 23 Dirk Jansz Smient was appointed to replace him. Wreede was sent to Saldanha Bay where the...
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Jansz Smient administered the new colony at Grand Port, with the cutting down and export of Ebony trees as the main activity. When Dirk Jansz Smient left...
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Jacobus van Oudenhoven: Ingebroken Alblasser-waert, in Zuyd-Hollandt. J.B. Smient, Dordrecht 1659; Vgl. T. Brienen: Jacobus van Oudenhoven (1600–1690). In:...
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Jan Swartwout. On June 3, 1631, Swartwout married Hendrickjen Barents Smient (b. 1609), with whom he would have eight children, among others Roeloff...
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Frederick Wreede 1665 1667 11. Jan van Jaar 1667 1668 12. Dirk Janszoon Smient 1668 1669 13. Georg Frederick Wreede 1669 1672 14. Swen Felleson 1672 15...
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teachers of the painter Gerard Dou (1613–1675) and Hendrick Jansz. van der Smient (c. 1600 – 1655). He also painted landscapes, portraits and mythological...
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fireship Koning David ( Dutch Republic Navy) was expended in battle. June — Smient ( Dutch East India Company ): The flute was lost somewhere between Batavia...
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De Graeff family, a rich merchant, Ship-owner and Politician Dirk Jansz Smient, governor of Mauritius in the new settlement at Grand Port from 1666 to...
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Gooyer Isaac Johannes Lamotius Jacob van der Meersch Reinier Por Dirk Jansz Smient Adriaan van der Stel Abraham Momber van de Velde George Frederik Wreeden...
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