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Gideon¹

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12/03/2017

(Fleet) ShipVoyage

In February 1655 the Dolfijn, Dordrecht, Gideon, Henriette Louise, Parel, Prinses Royael and Tholen, ships of the return fleet, departed Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 21 April 1655. Among those who arrived that day were the slaves Maria da Costa van Bengale and Maria van Bengale.^2,3

Citations

[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.
[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First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "21 April 1655: Return Fleet (Dolfijn, Dordrecht, Gideon, Henriette Louise, Parel, Prinses Royaal & Tholen) ex Batavia brings
Maria van Bengale (Marij da Costa) [belonging to Jan van Riebeeck]
Maria van Bengale (Maria Sacharias:) [belongs 1stly to Hendrik Hendricksz: Boom (from Amsterdam) & 2ndly to Pieter van der Stael (from Rotterdam)]."
[S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006). Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."