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

Wessel Jans Croese¹

M, #14167, b. circa 1650

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Last Edited

18/03/2015

Birth*

Wessel Jans Croese was born circa 1650.^1,2

Occupation*

On 22 May 1690 Wessel Jans Croese was the skipper of the Goede Hoop.³

Slave Transactions

On 22 May 1690 Claas van Paleacatta was sold by Albert Cronen to Wessel Jans Croese, for Rds. 90.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.156.. 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.156. 22.5.1690, pp. 490-491: Claas from Paleacatta (18/19), sold by Albert Cronen to Wessel Jans Croese, skipper of Goede Hoop, for Rds. 90.