A. M. Meertens

'A.M Meertens' was shown as the owner in 1817 of two estates (Elizabeth and Strick en Heuvel) that do not appear again in the Slave Registers, and of La Retraite in 1832 when A.M. Meertens was said to be in extreme debility. LBS has not fully unpicked the Meertens family, but Anthony and Johanna Meertens (each of whom q.v.) had a son named Anthony Mangelaar Meertens who was of age to be one of his father's executors in 1815.

1. The Anthony Mangelaar Meertens of Demerara, born 1816, who enrolled in law at Utrecht University in 1834 age 20 [sic], at Leyden in 1836 and graduated a doctor of law in Leyden in 1842, was too young to have been the A.M. Meertens of the 1817 and 1832 Slave Registers.

Email from Stanley R. Criens, 05/08/2017 sourced to: Album Studiosorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae MDCXXXVI-MDCCCLXXXVI, kol. 303; Album Academicum van het Athenaeum illustre en van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, p. 277; Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV, kol. 1309; Anthonius Mangelaar Meertens, Demerariensis, def. Diss. cont. Quaestiones quasdam e jure Holl. antiquo, J.U.D. (Annales Academici MDCCCXL-MDCCCXLIX : Series canditorum qui gradum Doctoratus adepti sunt in Academia Lugduno-Batava a die IX Februarii MDCCCXLI ad diem VIII Februarii MDCCCXLII, p. 41); Album Promotorum van de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 1813-1900 / [samengest. door] M.J. van Lieburg & F.A. van Lieburg. - Amsterdam [etc.] : Medisch-Encyclopedisch Instituut, Faculteit Geneeskunde VU [etc.], 1985, kol. 102; Catalogus / Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae. - Dl. XLVII : Proefschriften der Leidsche Universiteit, uitsluitend tweede helft der 18e en eerste helft der 19e eeuw. - Leiden : Universiteits-Bibliotheek, 1939, p. 96; National Union Catalogue NM 0401781 NN.

We are grateful to Stanley R. Criens for his assistance with compiling this entry.