Jacobus van der Puije
Jacobus van der Puije (c. 1754 – 24 June 1781) was an administrator of the Dutch West India Company. He became President of the council (acting Director-General) of the Dutch Gold Coast in 1780.[1]
Jacobus van der Puije | |
|---|---|
| President of the Council of the Dutch Gold Coast | |
| In office 11 April 1780 – 30 December 1780 | |
| Preceded by | Pieter Woortman |
| Succeeded by | Pieter Volkmar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1754 Middelburg, Netherlands |
| Died | 24 June 1781 (aged 26–27) Dutch Gold Coast |
Biography
Jacobus van der Puije was born in Middelburg to a family that originally came from Sint-Maartensdijk.[2] His father was William van der Puije (born 1703).[3] He was governor of Fort Crèvecoeur in Accra from 1776 till 1780, when he succeeded Pieter Woortman as the colonial governor of the entire Dutch Gold Coast.[4]
Jacobus van der Puije had a daughter named Anna van der Puije with an enslaved African woman named Asoewa. Anna van der Puije herself was also enslaved and freed for 1 mark of gold, paid for by Jacob Rühle, who subsequently married her.[4] He also had a son, Peter van der Puije (born c. 1775), with a local Ga woman from Accra by the name of Madam Ayeley Ablah.[3]
Legacy
Jacobus van der Puije is the direct patrilineal ancestor of the Vanderpuije (sometimes spelt as Vanderpuye) family in Ghana.[1] Descendants include politicians Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye and Isaac Nii Djanmah Vanderpuye, newsreader Claudia-Liza Armah-Vanderpuije, actor William Vanderpuye, and musician Joseph Bartlett-Vanderpuye.
Citations
- Doortmont 2004, p. 69.
- Van der Rijt, Franka (2009-11-30). "Dit voelt voor mij als warme thuiskomst". BN De Stem. Archived from the original on 2009-12-02. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- "Jacobus van Der Puije". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- Doortmont, Everts & Vrij 2000, p. 519.
References
- Doortmont, Michel R.; Everts, Natalie; Vrij, Jean Jacques (2000). "Tussen de Goudkust, Nederland en Suriname. De Euro-Afrikaanse families Van Bakergem, Woortman, Rühle en Huydecoper: IV Rühle". De Nederlandsche Leeuw. 117 (11–12): 490–557.
- Doortmont, Michel (2004). The pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: a collective biography of elite society in the Gold Coast Colony. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004140974.