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

Willem van Madagascar¹

M, #14566, b. 1669/70

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Last Edited

08/01/2015

BirthOrigin*

Willem was from Madagascar and perhaps born there in 1669/70.¹

Slave Transactions

On 29 January 1687 Willem van Madagascar was sold by Roelof Diodati to Henningh Hùijsing, for Rds.50.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.149.. 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.149. 29.1.1687: Willem from Madagascar (17/18), sold by Roelof Diodati to Henning Huijsing for Rds. 50.