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• http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7948.htm
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Profile pic is a painting by him.

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Governor of the Cape Colony

In 1662 he went to Cape of Good Hope with his small family, five slaves and two horses.He followed Jan van Riebeeck as a governor on 6 May. van Riebeeck left the next day.
Wagener was one of the five people laying the foundation of the Castle of Good Hope, which was started in August 1665. He constructed a waterbasin, supplying the ships with fresh water, a hospital, a school and a church. In 1666 his wife Anna Auxbrebis, whom he had married in 1648, died. On 27 September 1666 he resigned and Wagener went back to Batavia with his stepdaughter. Wikipedia...

"2 April 1662: Angelier ex Batavia brings 5 personal slaves of Dresden-born Zacharias Wagenaer (1614-1668), the Cape’s 2nd commander (1662-1666):* Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014.

• Japanese Christian Anthonij de Later van Japan
• his concubine Annica van Bengale
• their son Abraham
• Louis van Bengale &
• Willem van Bengale."

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Zacharias sold slaves

He sold 4 slaves named Marie (from Bali), Louis, Willem and Isaac (from Bengal) inbetween 1665 and 1668. Source: http://www.venter.co/venter/docs/CapeSlaves1.pdf