Document dated 19th November 1784, 425 x 330 mm, 3 pages, embossed taxation stamp on page 1, wax seal on page 3. Some spotting and fraying of the edges but a very good example of an eighteenth century deed with the seal intact.
Two pages are beautifully framed, the third page is loose in a plastic sleeve. This page reads translated from the Dutch:
'Appeared before Us, the undersigned... the Assistant Abraham Fleck, who declared to have well and lawfully sold, and consequently by these presents does cede and transfer in full and free ownership to and for the benefit of the Burgher Hermannus Dempers, a certain house and erf with everything thereon fixed by nature or nail, standing and situated in this Table Valley in Block HH, being there a portion of No. 4 measuring in its ground Eleven square roods, sixty-eight feet, and One hundred twenty-two equal inches.'
Block HH: This block was part of the residential expansion of the city during the 1780's. Historically, Block HH is located in the area currently bounded by Bree Street, Loop Street, and Longmarket Street. At the time of this transfer this area was a fashionable residential district favoured by high-ranking VOC officials like Abraham Fleck and successful Burghers like Hermannus Dempers. This specific property would have been a typical Dutch colonial townhouse. The mention of everything ‘fixed by nature or nail’ (aan aard en nagelvast) indicates a substantial building situated close to modern day Strand Street.
Dempers was baptised in 1759 and in 1782 married Johanna Vlok. They had seventeen children!
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- Size: 425 x 330 mm
