NO. 58.- — 1907.] JOAN GIDEON LOTEN, F.R.S. 



265 



"In the first volume of a copy of Valentyn's work on the 

 East Indies, which was published at Dordrecht, 1724-26, there 

 is the following note on the front sheet : — 



" ■ Dit werk is vermoedelyk in het bezit geweest van den Heer 

 Joan Gideon Loten in 1754 Gouverneur en Directeur van 

 Ceylon (zie de eigenhandige aanteekening op page 320 van het 

 Me Dl). This book I bought in 1735 or 1736 at Samarang on 

 the East Coast of Java; it was with me at Batavia, Macassar, 

 Ceylon, Cape the Good Hope, Utrecht, and Londen, also at 

 St. Helene. I bought it of Benjamin Blom and as I remem- 

 ber pd. st. at the rate of about f. 150, certainly dear 

 enough. 5 " 



The above does not perhaps add much to what is contained 

 in Mr. Ferguson's paper and Mr. Anthonisz's memorandum. 



I have not been able to discover the grandparents of Gover- 

 nor Loten. According to Mr. van Houten there lived at 

 Utrecht in 1756 a brother of the Governor byname Arnoud, 

 who was burgomaster of Utrecht and died there in 1801. This 

 must have been the Arnoud Loten * who was married to Lucre- 

 tia Christina Scheff er and had by her Mr. Joan Gideon Loten f 

 (the Governor's namesake), born 23rd September 1755, died 

 10th January 1809, married at Utrecht, 29th May 1797, 

 Henrietta Wilhelmina van den Heuvel, born in Utrecht, 14th 

 January 1769, died in Bonn, 1st June 1829. As regards 

 Joseph Loten % the following is an extract from the Marriage 

 Register, Batavia : — 



" 13 Juli 1720. 



" Joseph Loten van Amsterdam laatst geweest zijnde inde- 

 pendent fiscaal in de directie van Bengale weduwnaar van Al- 

 berta Pierraerd van Batavia met Abigael Tant van Batavia 

 weduwe van de Edele Joan van der Nipoort, oud-secretaris 

 van de Hooge Regeering van India." 



He must therefore have returned to the fatherland a year 

 after his marriage. 



* Aanzienlyke Familien, Vorsteman van Oyen, vol. II., p. 60. 



f Student in the Academy of Utrecht. 



J De Nederlandscke Leeuw, vol. xxiii. , p 286. 



M 2 



