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The Hon. Joost Volkert Franchimont. 
[Son of Gerrit Franchimont of Utrecht and Maria Lednlx 
of Colombo. He was born in 1709, and married in 1731 
Maria Catharma Galekam of Colombo.] 
The Hon. Herm. Jerom. van Gleet 
[Hermanns Jeronymus van Cleef, died in 1771, married in 
1763 Petronella Jacoba Schade of Colombo.] 
The Hon. Joan van der Weert, Chief of the Mahabadde. 
[In 1765 he was about to repatriate. He was a native of 
Nimwegen, and was married in Galle, 1757, to Anna Cornelia 
Baade of Cochin.] 
The Hon. Julius Valentyn Bauert. 
The Hon. Gerrardus Kersse. 
[Dissave of Matara, 1742 ; second in authority, Malabar 
Coast; Resident of Oayts, 1764. He was a native of Amster- 
dam, and was married in 1734 to Susanna Petronella van de 
Rondewerken.] 
The Hon. Daniel Kersse. 
[Son of Gerrardus, was a Boekhotider^ and married (1763) 
Johanna Francina van Lier of Trincomalee.] 
The gallant Mich. Erentryk Christoffel Baatke, Lieu- 
tenant (Military), 
[A native of Mecklenburg, and was married in 1767 to 
Anna Gertruida van Sanden of Colombo, widow of Godfried 
Sweep, Chief of Madura. Their daughter Maria Agnita was 
married to Adriaan Sebastiaan van der Graaff , evidently the 
brother of Willem Jacob van de Graaff, Governor of Ceylon.] 
The gallant Jan Andries Schuurman, Lieutenant, 
Artillery. 
[Was a native of Waldeck.] 
The gallant Jan Hendrik Simonsz, Lieutenant (Mili- 
tary). 
The gallant Jan Carel Hofman. 
[A native of Prague ; Adjutant, Colombo ; married (1) 
Wilhelmina Bogaart and (2), 1758, Maria Byl, widow of 
Adriaan Oostdyk.] 
