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

Jacob van Madagascar¹

M, #14396, b. 1671/72

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Last Edited

12/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Jacob was from Madagascar and may have been born there in 1671/72.¹

Slave Transactions

On 24 January 1688 Jacob van Madagascar was sold by Jan Dircks de Beer to Willem van Emmerhorst, for Rds. 50.²
On 26 January 1688 Jacob van Madagascar was sold by Willem van Emmerhorst to Burchard Brand, for Rds. 63.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.151.. 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.151. 24.1.1688, pp. 17-18: Jacob from Madagascar (16/17), sold by Jan Dircx de Beer to Willem Cornelis Emmerhorst for Rds. 50.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.151. 26.1.1688, pp 1920: Jacob from Madagascar (16/17), sold by Willem Cornelis Emmerhorst to "borger" Brand for Rds. 63.