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Note 21: The decline in Gerrit van Wyk's fortunes is recorded in the opgaaf records of 1740 and 1741.

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

They left Kruismansrivier in Gerrit's company and journeyed an easy ten kilometers to the Groene Valleij farm, where Jacobus Gildenhuizen and his wife Anna Maria Koekemoer ran a household of some means. 35 When Alida visited, Groene Valleij's abundant herds and flocks placed the Gildenhuizens well above the middling ranks of stock farmers. 36 Four slaves — three men and one woman — provided labor to help with both livestock and cultivation.

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

I have often heard Cousin Gerrit complain of the time he lost managing the estate.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

We all wept together as she talked, and, when Cousin Gerrit returned to summon us away, we needed no further education to make us earnest abolitionists.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

Alone with Cousin Gerrit in his library he warned me, in deep, solemn tones, while strongly eulogizing my lover, that my father would never consent to my marriage with an abolitionist.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

Gerrit J. van der Lingen, PhD (Utrecht University), geologist and paleoclimatologist, climate change consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, Christchurch, New Zealand

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"As long as the euro rises against the dollar, you might see Brent oil go to $90 a barrel," said Gerrit Zambo, a trader at Bayerische Landesbank in Munich.

Oil Prices Rise With Euro Paddy Gourlay 2010

The Hals Museum contains an excellent collection of works by other Haarlem painters of the Golden Age, including genre scenes by Jan Steen and Adriaen van Ostade, landscapes by Jacob Ruisdael, cityscapes of Haarlem by Gerrit and Job Berckheyde, portraits by Johannes Verspronck and Judith Leyster, and still lifes by Willem Heda and Pieter Claesz.

David Galenson: Visiting the Oldest Dutch Master: The Frans Hals Museum David Galenson 2011

Take Caravaggio's grimly green "Sick Bacchus," a smiling muscle-boy clutching a bunch of grapes, and Gerrit van Honthorst's "A Smiling Young Man Squeezing Grapes."

A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed Willard Spiegelman 2011

Dutch businessman Gerrit Lodder has attended the fair currently on until March 27 since it began in the 1970s.

Where the Action Is Margaret Studer 2011