Jacob Andries van Braam

[b] In 1800 he was the external regent of the almshouses in Batavia and of the pennists' institution,[c] and from 1803 to 1807 he was chief merchant and harbormaster in the city.

[3] In 1810, as president of that Council, he suppressed riots by acting on behalf of Governor-General Herman Daendels, who was in the vicinity with troops, to send an ultimatum to the Sultan of Djokja, who on 31 December 1810 was deposed.

[3] In 1811, in his house in Batavia, Daendels took his leave from the (French) government, and the new Governor General Janssens.

For that journey he bought a ship for his own account at a cost of 70,000 rijksdaalders, which shows that he was not lacking for money.

He placed the authority in these Indian possessions in the hands of the Resident, at Chin-Surah, Van Overbeek[e] At the forming of the new High Government of the Dutch East Indies in 1819 he was appointed a member of it; however, he died soon after.