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

Jacob van Madagascar¹

M, #15207, b. 1668/69

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Last Edited

05/01/2015

BirthOrigin*

Jacob was from Madagascar and perhaps born there in 1668/69.¹

Slave Transactions

On 3 December 1686 Jacob van Madagascar was sold by Jan Claas Claver to Hendrick Sneewint, for Rds 50.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.147.. 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.147. 3.12.1686: Jacob from Madagascar (17/18), sold by Jan Claas Claver, skipper of the Jambi, to Hendrik Sncwint for Rds. 50.