captain Gerrit Reynst, also an art collector. When the new town hall was opened on 29 July, Jan was participating in a parade on Dam Square; he wrote that three salvos were discharged, but not that his brother Jacob was sent out of the city for a day. In 1656 he was appointed as a city official in the Nieuwe Kerk. He resigned within a few months, when he was appointed as an administrator in the townhall. In the schutterij Jan was promoted lieutenant. On 1 February 1661 Jan was elected as schepen. He may have witnessed the unveiling of Rembrandts' painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis in the town hall, as well as its removal a couple of months later. On 3 April 1657 Jan J. Hinlopen married Leonore Huydecoper of Maarseveen (1631–1663), the daughter of a rich mayor, Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen and an art lover. There is a sketch by her father for the arrangement of the chairs for the main room in his house on Singel. Jan Vos the local theatre director, gave five performances including accompanying poems for the occasion. Every show consisted of at least thirty to forty scenes portrayed in an allegorical manner, for example on the despairs of Amsterdam during the plague epidemic in the years 1652-1657: Family Jan and Leonore had four children: Jacob (20 October 1658 – Lage Vuursche, 12 July 1664), Johanna Maria (16 April 1659 – 15 June 1706), Sara (12 June 1660 – 16 June 1749) and Geertrui (1 January 1662 – 14 August 1663). Jan Hinlopen made distinct notes as to time of birth and date of baptism in the Westerkerk, at what time they were born and on which day they were baptized in the Westerkerk. His diary becomes dramatic when Jan J. Hinlopen lost his youngest daughter developing measles and his wife having a miscarriage after seven months. The next day, on 29 October, around ten in the evening the baby was carried to the church by his servant Jan, accompanied by two other men, most probably the undertakers. On 1 November his wife Leonora died at 5.30 in the morning, having been ill for seven days. His only son Jacob died at Pijnenburg, when his father was not present. On 6 January 1665 Jan remarried to Lucia Wijbrants in the Nieuwe Kerk. At some time Hinlopen moved from a house in Doelenstraat, which