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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XIX. 



Memorandum by Mr. F. H. de Vos, Advocate. 



Johan Gideon Loten. 



I take the following from Mr. R. P. van den Bosch's list* of 

 persons who held office in Ceylon under the Dutch : — 



" 1754, 30th September. Johan Gideon Loten, f born in 

 Utrecht 16th May 1710, son of Mr. Jan Carel Loten, Secretaris 

 van den Lekkendyk, benedendams, died 1st December 1763? 

 and Maria Aartsen van Juchem. Johan Gideon Loten was 

 married,J 25th August 1733, to Anna Henrietta van 

 Beaumont, daughter of Cornelis van Beaumont, died 1724, 

 Independent Fiscal of the Cape of Good Hope, and Deliana 

 Blesius.§ Anna Henrietta van Beaumont was born in the 

 Cape of Good Hope on the 15th November 1716, and died in 

 Colombo on the 10th August 1755. 



Johan Gideon Loten married, (2) in Banstead in Surrey, 

 4th July 1765, Letitia Cotes, daughter of Digby Cotes and 

 Elizabeth Bannister, and died in Utrecht, 25th February 

 1789. The following is an extract from the Burial Register : — 



" ' Overleden op 25 Februari 1789 en begraven inde Jacobi- 

 kerk : Del Wei Ed. G. Heer Mr. Johan Gideon Loten, op 

 den Drift bij de witte vrouwenburg, laat na zyn vrouw, maar 

 geen kinderen. Gezonken f. 250 en op den 2en May 1791 het 

 wapen opgehangen.' 



" We also have come across the name of Joseph Loten, 

 1709-10, Fiscal Independent, who in the year 1721 returned 

 to Holland with a return fleet of 34 ships and (a cargo) worth 

 more than ten million guilders (Val. I. v. p. 177). 



' c He is also mentioned as Loten Heer van Bunnik en Vechten , 

 Witte Vrouwen en Astede, mitsgaders Kanunnik ten Capitelle 

 van den Dom. He was the uncle of Joan Gideon Loten 



"Joan Gideon Loten, born in Utrecht, is mentioned as a 

 student in the Academy of Utrecht Ao. 1776 



* 1 Wapenheraut 77. 



| Journal, R.A.S. , C.B., vol. XV., No. 49, p. 235 ; vol. XVII., No 52, 

 pp. 16, 18. 



$ At Batavia, 24th August 1733. 



§ Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., No. 56, p. 327. 



