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PRIMARY SOURCE FOR WOLBINK FARM & HARDENBERG LOCAL HISTORY
[MANUSCRIPT - AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNTS]. [TEUNIS (WOLBINK), Albert?]. Annotisie Boekje van de Revunien [= Revenuen] van het Erve Wolbink te An, beginnende met den jaare 1795.
[Ane], 1795-1808.
WITH: [MANUSCRIPT - PROPERTY ACCOUNTS]. VOS, Jetso van, and his widow.
[Revenues from the Rental and Sale of Properties in and around Hardenberg].
[Hattem], 1823-1829. 4to. Manuscript accounts in brown ink on paper, the earlier part for the crops of the Wolbink farm estate in Ane and the later part for the rent and sale of property in the same region, around Hardenberg on the Dutch-German border, east of Zwolle. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum with 3 (of 4) string ties.
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Two series of accounts kept successively in a single volume. The first is primarily a record of revenues for crops (buckwheat, rye and potatos) grown on the Wolbink farm estate in Ane (near Hardenberg on the Dutch German border) from 1795 to 1808. It also includes revenues from the rental of property and conditions for the rental, which provides information on the sowing of crops. These accounts are unsigned, but were probably kept by or for Albert Teunis (1763-1818), who married Geertjen Hermsen Wolbink (1766-pre 1811) on 26 August 1795, took up residence at her family's farm and later adopted the family name Wolbink. The farm is now preserved as an historic monument.
The manuscript came into the hands of Jetso van Vos(s) (Nijmegen ca. 1775-Hattem? 1826/27), probably through his wife Hendrika Christina van Langen (Hardenberg 1785-Hattem 1830), whose brother Hendrik Albert Molkenboer van Langen appears to have come into possession of some land associated with the Wolbink farm (their mother was a Mulder, a family also associated with Wolbink in the present accounts). Van Vos turned the book over and used it to keep the accounts of his property in and around Hardenberg from 1823 to 1826, and his widow continued it from 1827 to 1829. He had been Lieutenant of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) ships "Mentor" and "Dordrecht" on a voyage to Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia) from 1794 until the English captured his ship immediately after French Republican troops replaced the Dutch government with a Republic in 1795. He made his way back to the Netherlands and settled (apparently after 1798) in 't Laar, about six kilometers from the Wolbink farm. In 1804 he married and settled at his bride's town of Hardenberg or nearby Heemse, about five kilometers on the other side of the farm. Sometime between 1811 and 1821, they moved to Hattem (near Zwolle), about 35 kilometers from Hardenberg, where Van Vos and his widow signed some of the entries in the present accounts. One entry records the 1825 sale of a piece of land belonging to the Wolbink farm estate, and a related entry notes nearby property belonging to Hendrika's brother Hendrik Albert Molkenboer van Langen. Both series of accounts mention the names of tenants, workmen, purchasers and others.
The blank book probably originally contained 158 leaves. The gold tooling on the binding may date from about 1795, when the entries begin, but the paper seems likely to be older (watermarked Amsterdam arms = CT, with the arms similar to Heawood 353, 355, 356 and 369; Voorn, Zuid-Holland 51; and Churchill 32 and 34, all dated 1693-1704). The accounts of 1795-1808 occupy only 4 leaves. When Van Vos began to use the book from the other side, he numbered most of the pages on 35 leaves beginning from that side (1-70, including a few unnumbered pages) and recorded his accounts scattered through those seventy pages and a few later pages. Someone tore out about 53 (numbered and unnumbered) blank leaves scattered through the entire book. One of the detached blank leaves is still present. As far as we can judge, only one non-blank leaf was torn out, containing p. 11 of Van Vos's accounts.
The manuscript must have passed down through Van Vos's family, for we acquired it with his journal of his 1794-1795 voyage to Batavia and the 1793-1795 journal of a cavalry officer, J. van Vos, perhaps his brother or father. With (probably) 1 written page and numerous blank leaves removed, but otherwise in very good condition. The sewing is somewhat loose and the binding slightly soiled and rubbed, but the tooling (a centrepiece and four cornerpieces, the same on each board) is well-preserved. A detailed primary source for the historic Wolbink farm estate and the local history of Hardenberg.
