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

Pieter van Helsdingen¹

M, #15231, b. circa 1650

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Last Edited

15/05/2015

Birth*

Pieter van Helsdingen was born circa 1650.¹

Occupation*

On 11 May 1697 Pieter van Helsdingen was the fiscal on the Zion.²

Slave Transactions

On 11 May 1697 Frans van Malabar and Candas van Pattana were sold by Pieter van Helsdingen to Albert Coopman, for Rds. 130.²

Slave Emancipations

On 18 June 1686 Flora van Timor was emancipated by Pieter van Helsdingen, she was left at the Cape as a free person on condition that if her former master or a member of his family called at the Cape enroute back to Batavia, she would once again have to slave for them.³

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. 176. 11.5.1697, p. 166 (verso): Frans from Malabar (22/23) and Candas (female) from Pattana (14/15), sold by Pieter van Helsdingen, fiscal of the Zion, to sick-comforter Albert Coopmans for Rds. 130.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.147. 18.6.1686: Flora from Timor, left at the Cape as a free person by Pieter van Helsdingen on condition that if he or one of his family should call at the Cape on their way back to Batavia, the slave was to return to his service.