Around 5 years before 1764, the governor of Manila sent three large galleys to escort two wankangs and a galliot to collect rice from Iloilo. After arriving at Iloilo, when the galleys were returning to Manila, they were attacked by 180 pirate ships from Mangindanao. The pirates captured the ships and brought them to Mangindanao. The witness was then taken to Passir where the pirates sold him to a Chinese merchant from Samarang. When the merchant sailed to Macassar, the witness was captured at the Bugis settlement and sold.
This statement was recorded at the political secretary's office in Castle Rotterdam at Macassar on April 17, 1764. It was marked with a cross by the witness and signed by Secretary Joseph Smoder in the presence of C. Oostendorp and Jan David van Etighoffen.
On April 28, 1764, it was discovered that after being captured by Mangindanao pirates and sold to a Chinese merchant from Samarang, the witness was later captured by Bugis people and sold to the wife of Barend Jansz. She did not know he was a Christian and resident of the Spanish Manila. After learning this and becoming aware that such people could not be sold according to recently published rules, Barend Jansz showed willingness to release the person if required.
National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 1.04.02, Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811), inventory number 3120, Heren Zeventien en kamer Amsterdam, INGEKOMEN STUKKEN UIT INDIË, Overgekomen brieven en papieren, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, 1765. Zesentwintigste boek: Batavia's ingekomen brievenboek, deel III: Makassar, Banjarmasin
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