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17Grouping people into households according to the list presented in the opgaaf is speculative but tenable.

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Renewed through 5 July 1732, CA: RLR 9: 205 (per L. Guelke data); ARA: VOC 4100, OPB, 1726 opgaaf, Drakenstein p. 8. back

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Daughters typically went from unnamed tally marks to some other place in the opgaaf, recorded as someone's wife, starting the process again.

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People had solid motivation to underreport to both the opgaaf and the Orphan Chamber since both the census and death inventories were the basis of taxation.

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Note 38: ARA: VOC 4096 OBP, 1725 opgaaf; Cape district; Stellenbosch district f.

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Note 51: ARA: VOC 4180 OBP, 1750 opgaaf, Drakenstein pp. 7 – 8. back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Alewijn Smit, in contrast, did not claim a loan farm outside the Olifants River area in the 1720s, so he must have been counted for the opgaaf while living on Thein Rivieren. 41

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Note 44: It is interesting to note that Willem's and Maria's inventories do not list weapons, even though a musket, a pistol, and a sword are ascribed to Willem and Andries in every opgaaf.

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Nevertheless, repeated patterns in the opgaaf mirror documented family relationships and offer reasonable assumptions about neighbors. 21

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Note 39: ARA: VOC 4103 OBP, 1727 opgaaf, Cape district f.

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