The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

Appendix B: Archival and Museum Sources Consulted

193 appendix b. archival and museum sources consulted 1. The National Archives, The Hague, Netherlands The National Archives (formally the General State Archives, or Algemeen Rijksarchief) in the Hague holds the most comprehensive collection of documents left by the merchants and administrators of the VOC. The most important group of documents is the Dag Registers, written by Dutch merchants and officials who held posts at the VOC trading establishment in Mocha. These logbooks contain daily entries made by resident observers and serve as important records of everyday life. The Dag Registers were copied and sent back to officials in Batavia to be inspected by administrators there. They were then copied again and sent to the home offices in the Netherlands. The Dutch officials also wrote periodic reports on missions to Mocha before the establishment of the permanent, year-round factory, and they sent home comprehensive letters regarding the trade and the political situation of the host country. In the archives, many different types of documents are bound together, especially documents pertaining to the same establishment, so the same reference number may appear for multiple documents . I list the documents I consulted in the following three sections. Daily Reports from Seasonal Missions to Mocha Because most pages include multiple-date entries and some are unpaginated , in the endnotes I refer to the daily reports from seasonal missions to Mocha by date and VOC reference number rather than page number. The daily reports I used were the following: VOC 1434 (microfilm 1053) May–September 1685, pp. 513–99 VOC 1660 (microfilm 4236) May–September 1701, pp. 771–810; Report by Dirck Clercq and Cornelius Snoeck, Signed September 22, 1701 VOC 1714 March–September 1704, pp. 126–88; Report by Joan Josua Ketelaar and Slaacq van der Hoeve to Pieter de Vos VOC 9115 (Zeeland kamer) July 16, 1705–September 13, 1706; Report by Joan Josua Ketelaar and Joan van der Needen on the Oostersteijn to Mocha VOC 1784 (microfilm 2478) September 1, 1708–August 31, 1709, pp. 1862–2226 Dag Registers All the regular Dag Registers for Mocha open on July sixteenth and close on July fifteenth of the next year. Because many Dag Registers are unpaginated and most pages include multiple-date entries, in the endnotes I refer to the registers by date rather than page number, along with the VOC reference number. The name of the kamer, or regional home office, to which the register belonged is given in parentheses in the following list. VOC 9116 (Zeeland kamer) 1719–20 VOC 9117 (Zeeland kamer) 1722–23 VOC 9118 (Zeeland kamer) 1723–24 VOC 9119 (Zeeland kamer) 1724–25 VOC 9120 (Zeeland kamer) 1725–26 VOC 9121 (Zeeland kamer) 1726–27 VOC 9122 (Zeeland kamer) 1727–28 VOC 9123 (Zeeland kamer) 1728–29 VOC 2202 (Amsterdam kamer) 1729–30 194 Appendix B: Archival and Museum Sources Consulted VOC 2252 (Amsterdam kamer) 1730–31, first register, pp. 201–417 VOC 2252 (Amsterdam kamer) 1731–32, second register, pp. 161–275 VOC 2356 (Amsterdam kamer) 1733–34, first register, pp. 95–133 VOC 2356 (Amsterdam kamer) 1734–35, second register, pp. 106–82 VOC 2415 (Amsterdam kamer) 1735–36, pp. 205–316 VOC 2447 (Amsterdam kamer) 1736–37, first register, pp. 118–271 VOC 2447 (Amsterdam kamer) 1737–38, second register, pp. 98–182 VOC 9113 (Zeeland kamer) November 19, 1739–August 23, 1740 Reports and Logs The merchants who visited Mocha on exploratory missions during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, before the VOC establishment was permanently opened, wrote most of the reports and logs in the following list. For the reports, I refer to the documents by VOC number and page number, when available. VOC 1406 Report on a season of trade in Mocha by Hubert Cloecq and Aert Spender to Jacques de Bricquoy, dated September 20, 1683, pp. 1106–21 VOC 1406 Report on the city of Mocha by Hubert Cloecq and Aert Spender to Jacques de Bricquoy, dated September 20, 1683, pp. 1121–26 Van Hoorn Van Riebeck Papers 12 Description of the city of Mocha, from Gerrit Huigelbosch to Joan van Hoorn, dated March 24, 1701 VOC 1843 Report about the 1712 Mocha trade season by Christiaan van Vrijbergen to Abraham van Riebeck, dated August 20, 1713, pp. 32–59 VOC 1964 Report by Abraham Pantzer, dated August 19, 1719, pp. 74–120 Appendix B: Archival and...