Johann Coenraad Gie was a businessman, community leader, and Grand Master of the Freemasons in Cape Colony.
[1] He arrived on 23 January 1751 on the ship Rosenburg from Texel, Netherlands, as a young man working in the military.
He supplied ships with goods at the refreshment station in Cape Town harbour on their way to India or Europe.
This court was abolished by Sir David Baird in 1806, long after Gie's death.
The Dutch East India Company had a political council that governed the Cape Colony.
This political council supervised the regulations of the Lords Seventeen (Dutch: Heren XVII).
In 1776, he was appointed Grand Master but, due to his inability to speak English, he had to step down.