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

Claas van Madagascar¹

M, #14220, b. circa 1676

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Last Edited

17/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Claas was from Madagascar and was perhaps born there circa 1676.¹

Slave Transactions

On 6 February 1690 Claas van Madagascar and David van Madagascar were sold by William Deeron to Gerrit Victor, for Rds. 95 each.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.155.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.155. 6.2.1690, pp. 307-308: Claas and David from Madagascar (16 and 14/15 respectively), sold by W. Deeron to Gerrit Victor for Rds. 95 each.