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TERNATE 115
SHORT CHRONICLE
1657. Saifudin, eleventh Sultan of Tidore. 57 Sultan Saifudin establishes his seat at
Tohula and concludes a verbal agreement with Simon Cos. 58 [p. 161]
1660. Simon Cos concludes a perpetual treaty between the rulers of Ternate,
Tidore, and Bacan.
1662. Anthonij van Voorst, fifteenth Governor of the Moluccas.
1663. The Spanish leave Ternate, after which the Dutch raze the fortress of
Gamlamo by order of the nobility. 59
1667. Maximilian de Jong, sixteenth Governor of the Moluccas. 60 Admiral Cornelis
Speelman concludes the first contract in writing with Sultan Saifudin. 61
1669. Abraham Verspreet, seventeenth Governor of the Moluccas.
1672. Cornelis Franks, eighteenth Governor of the Moluccas. 62
1673. Eruption of the mountain Gamkonorah on the west coast of the northern
peninsula of Halmahera. 63
57 [p. 160, n. 5] In van der Crab (1862, p. 317) he is considered to have been the first Sultan of
Tidore and is called Sifuddin. In “‘s Compagnies Recht” (“Rights of the Company”) p. 29, his name is
given as Kaicil Golofino, which most probably was his name as prince (cf. Haga 1884, I:76, note).
58 [p. 160, n. 6] The purpose of this verbal contract was primarily the extirpation of clove and
nutmeg trees, for which the ruler and nobles received the sum of 2,400 rijksdollars (Valentijn 1724,
Ib:102).
59 [p. 161, n. 1] Veth (in Wallace 1870-1871, II:13, note 5) erroneously states that in this year the
fortress at Gamlamo was vacated by the Portuguese. Keijzer, in his chronology, dates the departure
of the Spanish to one year later.
60 [p. 161, n. 2] The Governor had, at that time, the title of Commander (cf. Realia I:446 and
Plakaatboek [Collection of Edicts] II:357). One can read on a tombstone in the present warehouse
(the former governor’s and resident’s house): “Here lies buried the good Susanna Cater, wife of the
Commander Anthonij van Voorst. Died in childbirth and risen to the Lord on January 20, 1667.”
In Tijdschrift van het Bataviaasch Genootschap IX:78, under the year 1669, there is also
mention of a Commander or Commissioner, the latter title usually being used in older contracts. At
the end of the eighteenth century, at Ternate, the heads of government were given the title of Lord
[Dutch, Heer].
61 [p. 161, n. 3] This is dated March 29 and can be found in Valentijn 1724, Ib:108.
62 [p. 161, n. 4] By the orders of the Seventeen Lords, in that year a political council on Ternate
was formed. It was comprised of the following members: a president, a chief merchant (secunde), a
captain, a judge advocate, the garrison bookkeeper, the storekeeper, and a secretary (Plakaatboek
[Collection of Edicts] II:553). This was later amended (Plakaatboek III:18).
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