List of Opperhoofden of Delagoa Bay

'''List of Colonial Heads of the Dutch fort at [[Delagoa Bay]]''' (now Maputo Bay, in [[Mozambique]]):

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<th width="30%" align=left>Incumbent
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|valign=top|March 1721||colspan="3"|''[[Dutch East India Company]]'' - Dutch Fort [[Fort Patience|Lijdzaamheid]] (archaic spelling [[Leydsaemheyt]]) at Delagoa Bay purchased from king [[Maphumbo]] under Dutch [[Cape Colony]]
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|rowspan="2"|April 1722 to 28 August 1722||''Pirate occupation led by''
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|'''[[Taylor]]{{dn|date=October 2011}}'''
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|'''[[Opperhoofd]]en (Chief factors)'''
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|March 1721 to May 1721||'''[[Willem van Taak]]''', Opperhoofd
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|May 1721 to 1722||'''[[Casparus Swertner]]''', Opperhoofd
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|1722 to May 1724||'''Jean Michel''', Opperhoofd
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|June 1724 to 1726||'''[[Jan van de Capelle]]''', Opperhoofd||1st Term
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|1726 to 8 January 1727||'''[[Jan de Koning]]{{dn|date=October 2011}}''', Opperhoofd
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|8 January 1727 to 27 December 1730||'''[[Jan van de Capelle]]''', Opperhoofd||2nd Term; 18 March 1729: ''VOC decision to close the post''
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|27 December 1730||''Settlement abandoned; territory became part of [[Portuguese East Africa]]''
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