Muster Roll 1657 Cape of Good Hope

2 Commanders with their servants

Sick Comforter

Bookkeeper

Scribes

Butler and cooper

Trumpeter

1 Surveyor

1 Quatermaster and constable

1 Provost Marshal

Guards at the gate

Lookout for the ships

Turner

Nurse (Sick father)

1 Wainwright

1 Ploughmaker

2 Cooks (inside and outside the fort) for the commander and the common people

2 Chief and under barbers

Blacksmiths

1 Sword sweeper who keeps the weapons clean and also helps the blacksmith

5 Masons

10 Garden workers - This cannot be reduced, otherwise, instead of improving, everything would deteriorate again, as the Company's gardens are currently almost 14 "morgen" (a measure of land roughly 0.85 hectares) in size.

2 At the Company's orchard

3 Ploughmen

9 Who roots out shrubs or wilderness from the land, and make it clear, suitable for ploughing and sowing grain

1 Sergeant

3 Corporals as supervisors, also for general work and agriculture

1 Drummer

2 At the redoubt "Duijnhoop)

2 Wildlife shooters

7 Cattle herders to attract the Saldanhers, and so we acquire more livestock, as there may be at least 15 to 20 present

1 Pig and cattle herder

1 Sheep herder

8 With the 3 wood wagons bringing timber and firewood home from the forest

4 Woodcutters in the forest

4 At the seal hunt (robbe jagt)

6 At Robben Island who guard the sheep and at the same time go stone quarrying

1 Chinese convict

1 Palicatte banished and enslaved woman for grinding and household work

Enslaved girls - the Under merchant Verbugh's widow, the sick comforter, and the sergeant, added by the lord van Goens

Young enslaved boy - also added to the sergeant to learn to work in the general works