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Meijndert van Antongil¹

M, #13918, b. circa 1640

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Last Edited

15/07/2015

Birth*

Meijndert van Antongil was born circa 1640 at Antongil Bay in Madagascar.¹

(Slave) ShipVoyage

In November 1654 the Tulp departed Madagascar enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 12 December 1654. Among those on board were the slaves Eva van Madagascar, Jan Bruijn van Madagascar, Anthonij van Madagascar and Meijndert van Antongil, the last being the personal slave of Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck.^2,3

Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)

On 15 February 1658 Maria de la Queillerie was enumerated in the muster roll, among the women and children as the wife of the commander, along with their three children, Lambertus van Riebeeck, Abraham van Riebeeck and Maria van Riebeeck. They were recorded with three personal slaves, most likely Meijndert van Antongil, Eva van Madagascar and Lysbeth van Bengale.⁴
On 15 February 1658 Maria de la Queillerie was enumerated in the muster roll, among the women and children as the wife of the commander, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, along with their three children, Lambertus van Riebeeck, Abraham van Riebeeck and Maria van Riebeeck. They were recorded with three personal slaves, most likely Meijndert van Antongil, Eva van Madagascar and Lysbeth van Bengale.⁴

Slaves owned by individuals

On 12 December 1654 Meijndert van Antongil was owned by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck.¹

Citations

[S676] Attestation, C2391; Council of Policy, 4 September1652-6 February 1660, Western Cape Archives and Records Service as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham, Meijndert van Antongil becoming van den Coopman Cops [DR:???].
[S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012. "12 December 1654: Tulp ex Madagascar brings: Eva van Madagascar & son Jan Bruijn
Anthonij Malagasy slave (disappears 12 March 1655)."
[S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "12 December 1654: Tulp brings 4 slaves purchased on Madagascar
Eva van Madagascar & son Jan Bruijn;
Anthonij van Madagascar (disappears 12 March 1655)
Meinjdert van Antongil. [private slave of Jan van Riebeeck]"
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.293.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.