General Notes

Nicolaas had a child with Dina van Deventer before his marriage to Catharina Maria Magetski on 6 Dec 1739. The van Blerk farm is indicated on old maps of Cape Town along with approx. a dozen other farms.

Occupation :-    Nicolaas van Blerk was a soldier in the service of The Dutch East India Company, and was seconded on the 29th April 1722 to the ship Haaksburg. The ship sailed from Texel in the Netherlands and arrived in the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th August 1722.On the 16th October 1722 the Haaksburg departed for Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and it arrived there on the 20th January 1723.
On the 26th October 1732 he returned from Batavia to Goeree in the Netherlands on the ship Ketel. The ship arrived in the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th January 1733 and departed on the 7th March 1733 and arrived in Goeree on the 28th June1733.
His last voyage was on the1st June 1734 from Goeree in the Netherlands to the Cape of Good Hope on the ship Ketel. He arrived in the Cape on the 18th December 1734.
He remained a soldier in the service of The Dutch East India Company in the Cape Colony until he became a Free Citizen (Vryburger) in 1757.

Cape Town, VC 606, page 10, 15 December 1743:
Thomas, de ouders poul Tetz en Catharina Hoorn de etuijgen Nicolase van Blerk en Catharina Magetski.

CJ 788, 8 18.3.1751 - 20.3.1751
POMADE Slaaf van Nicolaas van Blerk, c 30, Macassar dros saam met 10 ander slawe o.l.v. Tallone van Boegies
Gegèsel, 15 jaar in kettings

CJ 788, 11 5.8.1751 - 7.8.1751
POMADE Slaaf van N van Blerk, c 30, Macassar neem deel aan opstand op Robbeneiland o.l.v. Robo van Boeton
Geledebraak - met genadeslag

Diaspora to Diorama 2nd edition page 2452
Tallone of Boegies, a convict living in the slave lodge, had been working in the wine cellars too, but apparently had occasion to go to the pomp behind the Castle where he began organizing his escape plot. He and the slaves who gathered under his leadership planned to run away to the free Negro land in Madagascar. In his confession, Pomade of Makassar, a slave of the soldier Nicolaas van Blerk, admitted that he had known Tallone in Batavia and upon meeting up with him at the Cape, had agreed throw in his lot with his old friend. The eleven fugitives were captured by a commando which had been gathered for the purpose of pursuing the runaway slaves not more than a few miles from the town at Jan Biesjes Kraal just over the Salt River.