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



Pieter Cornells Hasselaar. 

 Pieter Cornelis Hasselaar, Burgomaster of Amsterdam,* 

 thereafter Resident, Cheribon, born at Batavia, 24th March 

 1720, was the son of Cornelis Hasselaar of Enkhuyzen, Director- 

 General of the Dutch Indies, by his third wife Gertruida Con- 

 tantia Clement. Pieter Cornelis Hasselaar married (2) Ger- 

 truida Margarita Mossel, of Negapatam, the daughter of the 

 Governor-General Mossel. The issue of this marriage was 

 Adriana Hasselaar, born in the Indies, 4th July 1795, married 

 in 1780 Jacob Antony de Roth, born Surat, 1753, the son of 

 Johan de Roth and Susanna Anthonia van der Bruggen. So 

 that in 1780 Pieter Cornelis Hasselaar's son-in-law was the 

 son of (perhaps) the sister of Dirk Willem van der Brugghen, 

 Loten's son-in-law. This is the only possible connection I can 

 see of the Governor with the Hasselaar family. 



The Arms of Lot en and van Beaumont. 



The arms on the tomb of Governor Loten's wife are the 

 impaled armsf of Loten and van Beaumont, the blazons of 

 which I have taken from Rietstap's Armorial General (2nd ecL). 



The close resemblance between the arms of Francois van 

 Beaumont and Anna Henrietta van Beaumont shows that 

 they were, beyond a doubt, of the same family. 



3. Mr. Gerard Joseph then read the following note from 

 Mr. A. E. Buultjens, bearing on the subject, prepared from certain 

 Dutch manuscripts in his possession which he purchased at the 

 Hague on one of his visits there : — 



Note by Mr. A. E. Buultjens, B.A. 



I have in my possession the Memoir on Ceylon of Governor 

 Loten, and as both Mr. van Houten and Mr. Anthonisz state that 

 " all trace of other Papers of Loten has, alas, since been lost," 

 and " the diaries for the five years of Loten's rule in Ceylon are 

 unfortunately lost," I hasten to give (as I received the proof of 

 Mr. Ferguson's paper only yesterday, and the meeting is for the 

 day after to-morrow) only an outline of the manuscript. 



The Dutch manuscript in my possession consists of seventy 

 folio pages of contemporary writing in a fair state of preservation. 

 I purchased the manuscript, with some others, from the same 



* 52 Navorscher 240: " un charmant vieillard (1787), la sante et le 

 eontentement personifies " (Mevr. van Hogendorp). 

 f Journal, R.A.S., vol. XV., No. 49, pp. 229, 235. 



