Last Edited | 07/01/2015 |
ShipVoyage* | On 6 June 1686 the Jamby departed the Cape enroute to Madagascar on a slaving expedition, returning on 13 November 1686 with 212 slaves, of whom 3 were infants; 109 were women and 100 men, most in their teens.3,4 |
Names in the record, in publications, etc. | 28 November 1686, the name of Jamby was written in the record as Jambi Ship (VOC).5 |
Citations
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Name of ship Jamby."
- [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012.
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 6023.4 from Batavia to Veere
Number 6023.4
Name of ship VOORSCHOTEN
Master Subbing, Jan
Tonnage 558
Type of ship fluit
Built 1684
Yard Delft
Chamber Delft
Date of departure 25-11-1699
Place of departure Batavia
Arrival at Cape 28-01-1700
Departure from Cape 03-03-1700
Date of arrival at destination 25-06-1700
Place of arrival Veere
Chamber for which cargo is destined Delft (177,499)
Amsterdam (14,688)
Particulars
Previous outward voyage 1698.4
On Board I II III
Seafarers 70 1 12
Soldiers 31
Impotenten 7
Craftsmen 2
Passengers 5. " - [S156] Robert C-H Shell, Children of Bondage, A social history of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838 (1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994), pp.70,79.. Hereinafter cited as Children of Bondage.
- [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.147. Böeseken spells the name Jambi. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.