J^O. 56.— 1905.] MR. ISAAC AUGUSTIN RUMPF. ^32/ 
the Cape, 23rd Jane, 1886), daughter of Johannes Blesius of 
Breukelen, Fiscal of the Cape (died 1711), and Christina 
Diemer^ and grand-daughter of Dominicus Blesius, Predikant 
at Breukelen, and Gysherta van Baerle^ and had by her a 
daughter, iS'i^sanna (died 25th October, 1729), who married at 
Amboina,2nd May, 1717, Barmen Maarten Graswinclcel {hovn 
1st May, 1691, died 22nd February, 1736), Fiscal of the West 
Coast of Sumatra. Johannes Blesius had two more daughters, 
viz., (1) Deliana (baptized at the Cape, 29th November, 1693), 
married Cornelis van Beawnont^^ and (2) Christina (baptized 
at the Cape, 24th September, 1 690), the wife oi Jacobus Cruse, 
whose son, Johannes Jacobus Cruse (and therefore Rumpfs 
nephew), was the chief mourner at the Governor's funeral. 
In Mrs. A, P. Trotter's Old Cape Colony " (Archibald 
Constable & Co., Ltd., 1903) there is at p. 252 a sketch of the 
arms of one Joan Blesius, obiit 7th April, 1771, aetatis 
suae 55 anno." He must therefore have been a nephew of 
Rumpf and son of either Elbert Blesius (born 1689) or 
Dominicus Blesius (born 1691). The arms consist of a 
quartered shield, each quartering charged with a spade 
placed palewise, blade downwards, with a demi-lion as a 
crest, but no colours are indicated. 
Johannes Jacobus Cruse (born in the Cape) was married 
in Colombo, 22nd May, 1735, to Qertruida Brengman of 
Jaffna, widow of Daniel OverbeeU, Commandeur of Galle.f 
The Death and Funeral of Mr, Isaac Augustin Rujnpf. 
Valentyn\ says that Rumpf died of the shock he received 
on hearing of the murder of the Fiscal Barent van der 
Zwaan in Colombo by his slaves. He proceeds to give an 
account, received from Ceylon, of the funeral of Rumpf, of 
which the following is a translation from the Dutch, with 
my annotations in brackets : — 
The Hon. Mr. Isaac Augustin Rumpf, Ordinary Council- 
lor of the Dutch Indies, Governor and Director of the 
* Journal, R.A.S. (O.B.), vol. XVII., No. 52, p. 18. 
Journal, R.A.S. (C.B.) vol. XV., No. 49, p. 251 
X Byzondere Zaaken van Ceylon, p. 359. 
