Willem Jacob Cranssen

Life

1. 10 October 1762
   Baptism Wedde

   Wedde[1]
2. 28 December 1779–30 August 1796
   Corporal in VOC service (Enkhuizen chamber), sailed out on the Jonge Hugo; origin Wedda

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3. 1799–1801
   Governor of Ternate; defended the island against the English; Ternate was surrendered on 21-6-1801

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4. 1804–1808
   Governor of Amboina (instruction 1804-1805; handover memorandum 1808)

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5. 1810–1811
   Co-owner (with N. Engelhard, P. Engelhard and P.W.H. van Riemsdijk) of the private estates Pondok Gedeh, Tjawie, Tjiejerok, Tjomas and Dermaga near Buitenzorg

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6. 1811–1816
   President of the aldermen at Batavia; member of the Council of the Indies during the English interregnum (the only Dutchman after Muntinghe left); friend of Raffles

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7. 1821
   Died

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Family and ties

Parents

Willem Cranssen · Magdalena Hesse

Partners

Maria Eleonora Hartman · Wilhelmina Jacoba Nessnarc

Children

Catharina Rica Cranssen · Willem Leonard Cranssen · Wilhelmina Nicolasina Cranssen

Ties

Business: co-owner of the private estates Pondok Gedeh and others near Buitenzorg (1810–1811), with Nicolaus Engelhard