Petrus Johannes Truter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petrus Johannes Truter

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1747

Place of Birth: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1825

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Petrus Johannes Truter (17 December 1747, in Cape Town – 31 January 1825, in Swellendam, Overberg) was an explorer and official in the (Dutch?) East India Company, a Member of the Court of Justice, and a Commissioner of Police. P.J.
Truter was one of 14 children born to Jan Andries Truter and Maria Kuypermann.
He married Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg on 18 April 1773, who bore him 7 children including Anna Maria Truter, who later became the wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet.
In 1801 P.J.
Truter helped lead the Truter-Somerville Expedition along with William Somerville.
The expedition included John Barrow (who would later marry one of his daughters), Samuel Daniell, and missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards.