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Jan Oesebrant Geertsema

1749–1784WIC principal shareholder · Other colonial · WIC servant

Life

  1. 10 August 1749
    Born
  2. 10 August 1749
    Baptism; parents Petrus Geertsema and Sijbilla Plantina Clant van Aijkema
  3. 1760–1772
    Principal shareholder of the WIC Stad en Lande chamber (on both lists, c. 1760 and c. 1772, as a minor)
  4. 1769–1777
    Clerk on the Standvastigheyd (captain Pieter Hanson), drost (bailiff) on Curaçao
  5. 1769–1773
    "Schrijver" (clerk) on Curaçao; fled with Willemina Wendel to the Danish islands
    [1]probably
  6. from 1770
    Stayed on Curaçao from 1770
  7. 1784
    Died

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