| Commentary | Jannetje Verschuijl was betrothed to Gerrit Rijckelsma on 1 March 1586. She was born in Eindhoven and lived at one time in Haarlem. She invested 600 f. in the original subscription for V.O.C. shares (Van Dillen, Het oudste aandeelhoudersregister, p. 245). On 12 May 1595, Gerrit Rijckelsma sold to Abraham Pietersz. a house on the Warmoesstraet, called de Orangeboom for f. 2,400 (Kam, Waar was dat huis in de Warmoesstraat?, 36/11). He moved to another house on the Warmoesstraet called de Koning David. On 4 August 1606, Jannetje Verschuijl leased, on behalf of her husband, some ground formerly belonging to the Karthuizerklooster, to Huygh Gerritsz. Harinck (the brother of the auctioneers Jacob Gerritsz. and Thomas Gerritsz. Harinck), for use as a place to make roof tiles (pannebakkerij) She was buried in the O.K. on 11 February 1608 (I. van Eeghen, Van Karthuizerklooster tot Karthuizerhof, Jaarboek Amstelodamum 81(1989), pp. 52 and 53). Van Eeghen suggested that Gerrit van Rijckelsma might be identical with Gerrit Rinckes, from Berlikum, who obtained the citizenship of Amsterdam on 1 March 1586 (ibid., p. 51). Rijckelsma, in partnership with Cornelis van Tongerloo, who was later to found a glass manufacture in Amsterdam, dried marshes in the Zijpe, and went to Venice in 1605 to sink wells for salt and water. He established a manufacture of movable mills for grinding grain in the former Karthuizerklooster, some of which he sold to the young Christiaen IV of Denmark, who wished to use them to feed his troops during a military campaign (Van Eeghen, ibid. and M. de Roever in Exh. Cat. Amsterdam: Venetien van het Noorden, 1992, p. 168.) He was also important in cloth manufacture. Rijckelsma gave the painter and etcher Hans Rem (of R 27756 of Montias2) a commission to make prints of the stranding of the Spanish fleet in 1601. Rem received 100 f. for one version of the print, 150 f. for another, from the States General, which had issued an octroi for their publication (Van Eeghen, op. cit. p. 54). The widower Gerrit Rijckelsma lived in Amsterdam till about 1616 when he left to carry out various enterprises, including some for the Prince of Hesse (Van Eeghen, op.c cit. p. 53). Victor Rijckelsma (of R 29950), the son of Gerrit Rijckelsma and Jannetje Verschuijl, baptized on 23 March 1589, became a predikant and co-rector of the Latin School in Haarlem (1617-1620), from which he was removed, along with Rector Theodor Schrevelius for his Remonstrant sympathies (Van Eeghen, op. cit. pp. 53 and 62). His uncles Jan Verschuijl (of R 29937 of Montias2) and Thomas Marinus (of R 29940 of Montias2) helped Victor secure the fellowship (beurse) which allowed him to study theology (ibid. p. 62). |
