(1) See the Amsterdam City Archives Marriage Register, archive number 5001, inventory number 547, page 38.
(2) That it is really about our Maria is evident from the fact that she signs it in full with Martje Claas Boef.

(3) See also in the Amsterdam City Archives the authorization on March 21, 1716 which Hendrik Schalkenius had drawn up by notary Michiel Servaes.

(4) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of April 19, 1727 by notary Isaak Angelkot.

(5) They call Maria here Masje de Graeff. Previously we also came across the forms Martje and Marja, but for the sake of readability we will continue to call her Maria.

(6) This deed was recorded on April 19, 1727 by notary Isaak Angelkot (can be found in the Amsterdam city archives).

(7) This is one of the maids who inherits money when Evertje dies.

(8) See the deed of March 4, 1727 with Isaak Angelkot in the Amsterdam City Archives. In addition, other witnesses also gave a fairly intense character sketch of Rigt Douwes as a lying, cheating and stealing whore madam who even prostituted her own daughters: on February 27, plus April 5 and 19, 1727, also with Isaak Angelkot.

(9) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of November 9, 1735 by notary Jan Ardinois (an earlier will dated October 23, 1734 by notary Mathys van Son).

(10) See the Marriage Registers in the Amsterdam City Archives, archive number 5001, inventory number 579, page. 53 and 85.

(11) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of November 13, 1732 with notary Isaak Angelkot (see also the deed with notary Jan de Vicq junior on the same day).

(12) Can be found in the books of the VOC, safely kept in the National Archives in The Hague. See accession number: 1.04.02, inventory number: 5970 and folio number: 8.

(13) See in the Amsterdam City Archives DTB Begraven, archive number 5001, inventory number 1104, page 15. Two wills made by Maria on April 2 and October 31, 1737 by Mathys van Son also date from this period.

(14) By J.J. Kalma, called Epo Sjuck van Burmania (1698-1775) en Wybrand van Itsma (1693-1759), twee Oranjevrienden en “premiers” uit de 18de eeuw (Epo Sjuck van Burmania (1698-1775) and Wybrand van Itsma (1693-1759), two royalist friends and “prime ministers” from the 18th century), published in 1981.

(15) The most important source in this is Wikipedia, supplemented with the Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden (Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands) by A.J. van der Aa from 1867 and the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (New Dutch Biographical Dictionary) by Wumkes.

(16) In wich he imagines himself sitting in a boat with other passengers and describes his conversations with them. A good way to make your point... These texts can be viewed in the treasuries of Tresoar, the Frisian Historical and Literary Center located in Leeuwarden.

(17) Location: Tresoar - Pc 3806.

(18) On April 30, 1739 at notary Jan Ardinois (in the Amsterdam city archives).

(19) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of May 9, 1739 by notary Philippus Pot, which states, among other things, that the bride and groom indicate they will expressly cancel and destroy the marriage contract.

(20) See the marriage registers in the Amsterdam City Archives, archive number 5001, inventory number 582, page. 99 (dated May 1) and Marriage Register Reformed Municipality of Leeuwarden, archive number 28, Collection of baptismal, marriage, membership and burial records - Tresoar, inventory number 0991, deed number 387 and inventory number 0909, deed number 2791.

(21) This eulogy also contains a reference to another famous person with the surnam Vlaming, namely the poet Pieter Vlaming (1686-1734; who had already died at the time of this marriage). In this context, Maria is referred to as his nice. Although we wonder how the exact family relationship between these two “Vlamingen” was. Pieter Vlaming was the son of Willem Gerritsz Vlaming, a schoolmaster born on Vlieland, who later moved to the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam as a merchant and got married to a certain Holcke Floris. This Willem Gerritsz Vlaming walked around on Vlieland and in Amsterdam in the same period as our Willem Hesselsz Vlamingh did and there must have been a family relationship between the two if Maria was later called Pieter's niece. Willem Gerrits' father was Gerrit Willemsz Vlaming, skipper on Vlieland, married to Aecht Houbers. So far, all this information does not help us any further.

(22) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of June 20, 1739 with notary Mathys van Son.

(23) On November 19, 1739, Wybrand and Maria appear to have drawn up a joint will with notary Emilius Vitringa in Leeuwarden, when Maria was seven months pregnant, but we have not been able to find it. Most likely they both left everything to their (unborn) firstborn.

(24) In the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (New Dutch Biographical Dictionary).

(25) In the Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden (Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands).

(26) Baptism book Walloon municipality in Leeuwarden, archive number 28, Collection of baptism, marriage, membership and burial records - Tresoar, inventory number 1010, certificate number 553.

(27) See in the Amsterdam City Archives the deed of October 13, 1745 with notary Jan Ardinois (and for the settlement of Evertje's estate also the deed of November 29, 1744, January 16, March 23, September 15, plus 13 and 18 October 1745 by notary Jan Ardinois).

(28) Although the funeral records of Vlieland from this period are missing, their names cannot be found anywhere among the registered dead in Amsterdam, nor among the extraterrestrials who were transported to other places and whose names we have all painstakingly traced to the source. From this we could conclude that Willem de Vlamingh and his wife did not die in Amsterdam. Which would mean our hero, after living on Vlieland all his life and perhaps living with his daughter in the capital for a short period of time, ultimately died on the island! (See the Registers of declaration of the means on burial (archive number 5005, inventory number 6-8) and Fines on burial (archive number 343, inventory number 570 to 572) at the Amsterdam City Archives).

(29) Although we have also found a number of deeds in the Amsterdam City Archives, such as those of November 22, 1745 and February 16, 1750 with notary Jan Ardinois about the vacancy of the house in the Bergstraat, those of November 27, 1748 and August 25, 1750 with notary Salomon Dorper about a clogged sewer in the rented house on the Keizersgracht and see number 3141 of the Court of Holland in the National Archives in The Hague in a case on May 5, 1761 in which Maria is diametrically opposed to yet another tenant, to whom she eventually sold the house on the Keizersgracht on May 14, 1766 (according to the Remission Book of Amsterdam). Maria arranged the transfer on April 27, 1766 with notary Lambertus van Alphen in The Hague, which shows that Maria not only at the time of the lawsuit before the Court of Holland in 1761, but also at the sale of this house in 1766 stayed in The Hague.

(30) At the notary Lambertus van Alphen in The Hague. It dates from June 29, 1762. (Not found).

(31) Because then Hermanus de Groot will sell the house in the Bergstraat to Keetje Post after all! From the choice of words it can be concluded Maria has now died, on October 8, 1772.