Ingekomen stukken betreffende Suriname en omliggende kwartieren
Item
Country
NL
Name of institution (English)
Zeeland Archives
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
dut
Contact information: postal address
Hofplein 16, 4331 CK Middelburg
Contact information: phone number
0031 0118 67 88 00
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
info@zeeuwsarchief.nl
Reference number
2035
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Documents received concerning Suriname and surroundings
Title (official language of the state)
Ingekomen stukken betreffende Suriname en omliggende kwartieren
Language of title
dut
Creator / accumulator
Zeeuws Archief
Date(s)
1667/1683
Language(s)
dut
Extent
507 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection comprises incoming documents concerning Suriname and its surroundings from 1667 to 1683. Among these letters, some are related to the Sephardic community settled on the island. A few examples are the following:
2035.246: Petition about December 1674 from the representatives of the Jewish nation to Governor Pieter Versterre, seeking to exempt the Jewish inhabitants from the generally instituted Sunday ban. The letter is signed by several Sephardic Jews, including David Israel Pereira, David Nassy, David Baruch Carvalho, Baruch Louzada, Aaron de Fonseca Mesa, and Isaac Montezinos.
2035.258: Letter addressed to the states of Zeeland in May 1675, mainly concerning a petition against the increased taxes. Some of the subscribers are Sephardic Jews, such as David Nassy, Aaron da Silva, Samuel Nassy, and Isaac Drago.
2035.261: List of Jewish men living in Suriname annexed to a letter from P. Versterre on July 4, 1675.
2035.282: Letter from Abel Thisso, the military
commander and interim governor, on December 18, 1678, informing that 40 planters had been killed and that the Amerindians hoped “to exterminate the entire Dutch and Jewish nation here".
2035.376: Letter from Jan van der Spijck, whose ship had been chartered by Samuel Nassy and Johannes Heinsius to trade goods in Cayenne. He reports that he could not complete the voyage due to weather conditions and was subsequently summoned to return to Suriname. Instead, he set sail for Barbados. January 18, 1680. See Samuel Nassy's letter in 2035.387.
2035.390: Petition from Samuel Nassy to Governor Johannes Heijnsius on January 30, 1680, in which Nassy states that he wanted to sell runaway slaves that had been captured for him by Amerindians.
Ph. Dikland in Paramaribo made transcripts of some letters, which are available on:
2035.246: Petition about December 1674 from the representatives of the Jewish nation to Governor Pieter Versterre, seeking to exempt the Jewish inhabitants from the generally instituted Sunday ban. The letter is signed by several Sephardic Jews, including David Israel Pereira, David Nassy, David Baruch Carvalho, Baruch Louzada, Aaron de Fonseca Mesa, and Isaac Montezinos.
2035.258: Letter addressed to the states of Zeeland in May 1675, mainly concerning a petition against the increased taxes. Some of the subscribers are Sephardic Jews, such as David Nassy, Aaron da Silva, Samuel Nassy, and Isaac Drago.
2035.261: List of Jewish men living in Suriname annexed to a letter from P. Versterre on July 4, 1675.
2035.282: Letter from Abel Thisso, the military
commander and interim governor, on December 18, 1678, informing that 40 planters had been killed and that the Amerindians hoped “to exterminate the entire Dutch and Jewish nation here".
2035.376: Letter from Jan van der Spijck, whose ship had been chartered by Samuel Nassy and Johannes Heinsius to trade goods in Cayenne. He reports that he could not complete the voyage due to weather conditions and was subsequently summoned to return to Suriname. Instead, he set sail for Barbados. January 18, 1680. See Samuel Nassy's letter in 2035.387.
2035.390: Petition from Samuel Nassy to Governor Johannes Heijnsius on January 30, 1680, in which Nassy states that he wanted to sell runaway slaves that had been captured for him by Amerindians.
Ph. Dikland in Paramaribo made transcripts of some letters, which are available on:
Archival history
From 1667 to 1683, Suriname was a colony of the Zeeland region. In 1667, Abraham Crijnsens was commissioned by the States of Zeeland to conquer Suriname from the English. An extensive correspondence immediately followed between the appointed governors and commanders, on the one hand, and their principals, the States of Zeeland, and the executive committee of these States, the Gecommitteerde Raden van Zeeland, on the other.
These incoming documents were probably removed from the general series of incoming documents as early as the 19th century and combined in a file under the heading "Ingekomen stukken betreffende Suriname en omliggende kwartieren." In the inventory of K. Heeringa, they were subsequently described as separate, with the reference number 2035. In later years, this number was divided into two boxes for conservation reasons and now consists of two numbers: 2035.1 and 2035.2. The series of letters came to an end in 1683 when the province of Zeeland sold the Suriname colony to the Sociëteit van Suriname, a cooperative body of the city of Amsterdam, the West India Company, and the Van Aarssen van Sommelsdijk family.
These incoming documents were probably removed from the general series of incoming documents as early as the 19th century and combined in a file under the heading "Ingekomen stukken betreffende Suriname en omliggende kwartieren." In the inventory of K. Heeringa, they were subsequently described as separate, with the reference number 2035. In later years, this number was divided into two boxes for conservation reasons and now consists of two numbers: 2035.1 and 2035.2. The series of letters came to an end in 1683 when the province of Zeeland sold the Suriname colony to the Sociëteit van Suriname, a cooperative body of the city of Amsterdam, the West India Company, and the Van Aarssen van Sommelsdijk family.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2023
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