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Archives created in Asia and South Africa
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2. Archives transferred from Batavia to
The Netherlands
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ARCHIVES OF THE HOGE
REGERING OR SUPREME |
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GOVERNMENT IN BATAVIA |
he
archives of the Hoge Regering
mainly concern areas outside Indonesia. It was transferred
to the Netherlands from the Landsarchief
in 1863. It is a heterogeneous collection of documents of
widely disparate origin. Besides indexes compiled in Asia
and other finding aids to important series, there are considerable
sections of the correspondence of several factories and a
number of memories van overgave
(final reports) in this holding. It seems that the bulk of
the collection derives from the series of gewestelijke
stukken from the Landsarchief,
which have been already mentioned. Furthermore, it is possible
that there are also documents which originated from the archives
of the Dutch establishments in India and which were later
transferred to Batavia. The collection of documents of the
former Dutch possessions in India, mentioned below, has been
extracted from this holding (see the websitepage with section
4 about archives transferred from India to the Netherlands).
When this holding was split up this was done very carefully
so that any dubious cases have been left in the collection
of the Hoge Regering. There
is a provisional inventory for the collection(2).
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II. |
ARCHIVES OF THE BOEKHOUDER-GENERAAL
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(ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL) IN
BATAVIA |
he
book-keeping records of the boekhouder-generaal
in Batavia were brought to the Netherlands to replace those
which had been destroyed there. These contain a series of
general ledgers and journals and negotiegrootboeken
(trade ledgers) and journals, nearly all of which date from
the eighteenth century(3).
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ARCHIVES
OF THE WEESKAMER (ORPHAN BOARD) IN |
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BATAVIA |
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1863 a series of eighteenth century journals and ledgers from
the weeskamer in Batavia were
brought to the Netherlands(4).
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ARCHIVES
OF THE SCHEPENBANK (BENCH OF |
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ALDERMEN) IN BATAVIA |
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section from the archives of schepenbank
(bench of aldermen) in Batavia, which was brought to the Netherlands
in 1863, consists principally of financial records and case
files dating from the eighteenth century(5).

Ships on the roadstead
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