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History of Katwijk


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Nijs who already owns the plantations Imotapi and New Ribanika at the top Commewijne was. By his marriage he became co-owner of the plantation, which undoubtedly it is mined and when coffee plantation was built. In 1759, the plantation inventory. Katwijk was already a large coffee plantation with 159 slaves , and an appraised value of HFL. 150 660, -. After the death of Christiaan Alida remarried in 1762 to the Council Tax- Jan Willem van Meel (1741-1771), who Katwijk in 1770 with 200 acres hinterland increased. To him the plantation called popularly From Meerie . The third marriage of Alida Wossink was Everhardus Jacobus Coetzee (1743-1785).
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