Gerrit de Graeff (I.) van Zuid-Polsbroek (* Feb 27, 1711 in Amsterdam - † Nov 10, 1752) was a member of the De Graeff - Family from the Dutch Golden Age. De Graeff was known for his wealth and notorious for his stinginess.
Gerrit was the son of Johan de Graeff and his wife Johanna Hooft.
In 1734 he married to Maria Elisabeth Sautijn, and in 1739, after his first had died, with Elizabeth Lestevenon (1716-1766) . Mattheus Lestevenon, the Dutch amba...
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Gerrit de Graeff (I.) van Zuid-Polsbroek (* Feb 27, 1711 in Amsterdam - † Nov 10, 1752) was a member of the De Graeff - Family from the Dutch Golden Age. De Graeff was known for his wealth and notorious for his stinginess.
Gerrit was the son of Johan de Graeff and his wife Johanna Hooft.
In 1734 he married to Maria Elisabeth Sautijn, and in 1739, after his first had died, with Elizabeth Lestevenon (1716-1766) . Mattheus Lestevenon, the Dutch ambassador to France, became his brother in law. With his first wife he had one child - Johan de Graeff - who died at the age of 19. With his second wife he had six children: Abraham (1743-1744), Pieter (1746-1762) and Elisabeth Jacoba de Graeff (1748-1750) died young.
In the year 1732 De Graeff finished his studies at the University of Leiden. In 1736 he became chief administrator of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) . One year later he was appointed as chief administrator of the Dutch West India Company (WIC).. In the year 1739 he became a...
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