Looking for sources and ways to research geneaology of van der Puije from Middleburg, Zeeland in 1700s. William van der Puije was said to be a wine merchant who travelled to Cape Town, South Africa and the Gold Coast, West Africa 1703. A descendant was Jacobus van der Puije who was one time governor at the Dutch fort of Elmina in the Gold Coast, West Africa,1780.