First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

William Thamsz¹

M, #12876, b. circa 1660

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Last Edited

20/03/2015

Birth*

William Thamsz was born circa 1660.^1,2

Slave Transactions

On 29 May 1691 William Thamsz sold Claas van Malabar to Mathijs Wightman, for Rds. 72. Thamsz was en passant on board the Royal Jacob and Mary - an English vessel enroute from the East to England, his status was not recorded.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.158.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.158. 29.5.1691, pp. 183-184: Claas from Malabar (18/19), sold by William Thamsz, sailing on the English ship Royal Jacob and Mary as second mate, to Matthijs Wichtman for Rds. 72.