JPL CHAPTER 1 - THE BRUNEI EMIGRANTS

Who is the president of the second Republic of the Philippines during the World War II?

Dr. Jose P. Laurel

Who was the Datu who sailed to the archipelago during the fifteenth century?

Gat Masungit

Why was Gat Masungit called Gat Masungit?

Because of his touchy temper

What is Gat?

Gat was the title of nobility used all over southeast Asia, a title permitted by the Spaniards after their conquest of Maynilad in the sixteenth century.

Who are the other people that can trace their ancestry to some early immigrants who settled here many centuries ago?

Gatmaitans, Gatchalians, and Gatbontons

Who was the father of Gat Masungit?

Sultan of Brunei

What place did Gat Masungit went after he left his sire?

Batangas (then known as Batangan, because an earlier datu had made hishome in that hospitable and fertile land)

How many datus left after they were not happy over the way the ruler was treating them?

Ten Datus

What did the Ten Datus sailed?

binidays/boats during the southwest monsoon

Where did they land?

Panay

How many Datus had made Panay as their home?

Seven

What was the reason of caling Datu Puti?

because of his light complexion

Where did the other three Datus went?

They proceeded north to the bay of Balayan on the island of Luzon, which earlier Chinese traders had called Liu-hsin, and entered the mainland through the Pansipit river to the south shore of Taal lake which they called Tanawan

Tanawan

A native word for an elevated place for viewing.

Who remained on Balayan?

Datu Dumangsil

Where did Datus Puti and Balensuela went?

They left for the southeast where the latter settled in the Bicol region.

What did the three datus found at the bay of Balayan?

they found the coastal area already populated, and sailed up the wide Pansipit river to the lake called Taal

What was found in the middle of the lake?

A volcano that has smoke curling top meanign it was active.

Describe the Taal lake.

it was saline because the river, being broad and fairly deep, allowed the sea watersflowed at ebb tide

What land did Gat Masungit, his family and slaves found?

Tanawan Fertile

What did the farmers from Tanawan, Lipa to the west and Taal to the southwest planted?

Rice, corn, sugarcane, cacao and coffee

What did the residents of Tanawan specialized?

They specialized in the manufacture of biaded weapons

Where did the Tanawan Residents learned manufactureof biaded weapons?

Borneo, this is where they know how to forge crude iron into hardened steel, and one of their products, a folding knife known as the balisong, is still made in that locality

What did Gat Masungit build when he feared the incursions of occasional pirates from Mindanao?

Large lantaka or muzzle-loading cannon

Where was the lantaka aimed?

It was aimed at the southwest where marauders would come

Who was the first born of Gat Masungit?

Gat Leynes, whose progenies are now known as the Leynes family

What were the people of Taal lake?

pagans or Muslims, until after the arrival of the Spaniards in the late sixteenth century, when they accepted Christianity

What were the name given to the offspringsof Masungit?

de la Cruz

Who changed the de la cruz?

a later head of the clan named Miguel when Governor Narciso Claveria in 1849 decreed the adoption of surnames for all natives; for the great majority of them were known only by their baptismal names.

Who made the choice in giving a surname?

Fathers of the families

Who did Miguel de la Cruz consulted about choosing a suitable surname?

Parish priest

What does Laurel mean?

honor

What was the another story on Miguel choosing a suitable surname?

Miguel made his surname Laurel when he was hiding in the wilds of Tagaytay after an altercation with the parish priest of Tanawan, and chose that name as a camouflage

When did the volcano first erupted?

December of 1754

What did Fray Martinez de Zuniga wrote?

Taal olcano never erupted furiously as it did then. The noise was like that made by a furious battle. The ashes flung by the eruption, as well as the grit, were so plentiful that they covered the roofs of houses and streets of Manila and all places within 20 leagues (90 kilometers). The rocks, thick smoke, and fire that the volcano threw out with furious energy was unbelievable. The water of the lake boild in the heat, and streams of sulphur and liquid material substances burned everything around the lake, scalding all animal life, including alligators, shars and tunas, and killing them.’’

What provinces did the ashes fell?

Tondo, Bulacan, and Pampanga

Where did the residents moved?

Those from Tanawan walked several kilometers to the east and made their homes in what is now the town by that name.

Those from Lipa fled beyong nearby Mount Macolod, to the east, to found the present thriving city of Lipa.

Taal residents moved southwest near Lemery adjacent to the coast of Balayan

When did the volcano again erupted?

1911

What happened to Taal lake after the 1754 volcanic eruption?

The lake was not saline anymore because the part where the sea water freely entered was shallow and blocked with volcanic ash and silt

What was the population by 1850?

Lipa - 32, 573

Taal - 34, 789

Tanawan - 17, 236

Old timers

Miguel, his son Mariane, who sired Sotero

Sotero

the most prominent member of the clan at the turn of the twentienth century

Where did Sotero studied?

Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila, then took up law at the University of Santo Thomas of the Dominican friars

Who were the people that Sotero known during UST?

Felipe Buencamino Sr., Mariano Ponce and Emilio Jacinto, including Marcelo Hilario del Pilar from Bulacan

What did Marcelo Hilario del Pilar wrote?

Articles for Diarong Tagalog in both Tagalog and Castillan critical of the colonial administration

Where did Sotero wanted to study further?

Madrid

Who were the other Filipinos that went in Madrid

Dr. Jose Rizal, Graciano Lopez-Jaena, and the Paterno brothers

To whom did Sotero fell inlove?

a local lass named Jacoba Garcia ‘‘a sweet, mild-mannered thoughtful girl with an even disposition’’