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

Gerrit Blankelaar¹

M, #14254, b. circa 1649

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Last Edited

16/03/2015

Birth*

Gerrit Blankelaar was born circa 1649.¹

Slave Transactions

On 2 June 1689 Coridon van Nagapatnam and Jan van Macassar were sold from the estate of Marie Hugo, widow of Gerrit Blankelaar, by the skipper of the Oostersonburg Adriaan Witboom, who had been granted power of attorney for this purpose by Samuel Hoorn secretary of the Heemraden in Batavia. They were sold for Rds. 40 each to Guillaume Heems, on condition they would not be permitted to return to Batavia.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.154.. 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.154. 2.6.1689, pp. 226--227: Coridon from Nagapatnam (33) and Jan from Macassar (22), sold ex the estate of Marie Rugo, widow of Gerrit Blankelaar, by skipper Adriaan Witboom of the Oostersonburg, who had been given power of attorney for this by Samuel Hoorn, Secretary of the Heemraden in Batavia. Both slaves were bought by Guilliam Reems for Rds. 40 each on condition that they would not return to Batavia.