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LOCAL Tuesday 9 July 2019

Fortification of Plans

Episode XXV

Continued from Page 14

Then Jacobus Pellicorne Porrier is in office for a year, and on 24
September 1792 Borchard Specht arrives. The Rev.Bosch says
that he was born of a Utrecht family and married to the com-
mander’s daughter Catharina Raders Poppe.

An historian who visited Aruba about 1825, relates that in his time
he was still able to inspect the remnants of the commander’s
house at Ponton. The masoned socket in which the flagpole had
stood was intact yet. No prominent persons were living there any
more, but there were still dwellings in the vicinity, where goats
and sometimes also cows wer kept. From this point one a clear
day one could distinguish the coastal silhouette of the isthmus of
Paraguaná and its hill St. Ann the other side of the strait separat-
ing Aruba from the continent. q Pic. 4. A naval free booters battle for supremacy

Pic. 5. In the center the Commandeurs house at the hill Ponton.