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SHORT CHRONICLE
1801. Mohamad Yasin, eighteenth Sultan of Ternate. 88 Ternate surrenders to the
English on June 21, after Cranssen is treacherously taken prisoner by van Dockum and
Rodijk. 89 [p. 168] K.T. Farquhar, British Resident of Ternate. The accession of Nuku to
Sultan of Tidore is recognized by the English.
1803. H. Webber, British Resident of Ternate. Retrocession of Ternate to the
Dutch. 90 Peter Adrianus Goldbach, fifty-first Governor of the Moluccas.
1804. Carel Lodewijk Wieling, fifty-second Governor of the Moluccas. Ternate is
provisionally subordinated to Ambon.
1805. Complications with Tidore; death of Sultan Amirudin. Mohamad
Jainalabidin, twentieth Sultan of Tidore. 91
1806. The Tidorese forts captured by the Dutch; Sultan Mohamad Jainalabidin
flees. The headmen of Makian place themselves directly under the European
administration. This action, however, is later rejected by the supreme authorities.
1807. Mohamad Ali, nineteenth Sultan of Ternate. 92 The authorities receive notice
that in 1806 the Batavian Republic had changed its status and elected the French [p. 169]
imperial prince Louis Napoleon as King of Holland.
gold lion in the center, rounded by a gold wreath with the circumscription “Ternatese loyalty in the
year 1800.” Saptu died on October 27, 1843, and Patuseranga on August 22, 1839; their shields are
still kept by their descendants. Van der Crab’s claim (1862, p. 262) that on this occasion Fort Oranje
was afraid to resist has been sufficiently disproved by Leupe, cited above.
88 [p. 167, n. 2] In van der Crab: Mohamad Jassim.
89 [p. 167, n. 3] For this event see: de Roo, “J.W. Cranssen at Ternate,” TBG p. 503, and Appendix
IV, below, “A Native Opinion concerning the Dutch Betrayal.” Until now van der Lith (1875, p. 226)
is the only one who has dated the subjection of Ternate to the English as occurring in 1802.
90 [p. 168, n. 1] The commission designated to take over and reestablish the three Eastern
provinces on behalf of the Batavian Republic consisted of W.J. Cranssen, Esq., entitled Governor and
Director of Malacca, C.L. Wieling, Esq., Deputy Chief Merchant and entitled Deputy Commissioner
of the province of Ambon, and Abraham Melissen, Esq., Colonel and Commander of the Fleet. They
arrived at Ternate with the brig Avonturier and the corvette The William in the month of August,
after the preliminary work had been carried out by A.A. Buijskes and P.A. Goldbach in May (see
Leupe in TKI, pp. 202 ff.).
91 [p. 168, n. 2] It is said that he was never acknowledged since he had proclaimed himself Sultan
without prior knowledge of the authorities.
92 [p. 168, n. 3] The contract with this ruler is dated Castle Oranje, May 16, 1807. Sub. art. 14
says: “The King and Nobles promise to supply annually to their Liege Lord and Protector, the East
India Company, as a token of their loyalty, free of cost, two male slaves, two female slaves, ten
cockatoos, and ten parrots with red heads.” Later contracts do not have this obligation.
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