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Florinda van Jafnapatnam¹

F, #15352, b. circa 1642

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Last Edited

04/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Florinda was from Jafnapatnam, Ceylon, and may have been born there circa 1642. She was 30 years old when sold in 1672.^1,2

(Slaves) ShipVoyage

On 23 December 1661 the Prinses Royael, Marseveen and De Vogel Phoenicx, ships of the return fleet, departed Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 15 March 1662. Arriving on board the Prinses Royaal were the slaves Catharina van Malabar and Pieter van Ceylon. The Marseveen carried 15 slaves namely: Baddou van Bali, Jeronimus van Coromandel, Matthijs van Coromandel, Jantje van Bengale, Adriaen van Bengale, Gratia d' Costa, Paulo van Malabar, Catharina van Bengale, Jacob Cornelisse van Colombo, Jan Luy van Ceylon, Ventura van Ceylon, Pai Marquart van Ceylon, Florinda van Jafnapatnam and Helena van Malabar.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

The name of Florinda appeared as Florinda van Jaffanapatnam in the cited publication(s.)³

Slave Transactions

On 26 February 1672 Florinda van Jafnapatnam was sold by Adrianus de Vooght to Nathaniel Goethardt, for Rds 70 and may have left the Cape on the Hollantsen Thuyn with her new owner.²

Citations

[S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "15 March 1662: Return Fleet (Marseveen, Phoenix, Prinses Royaal) ex Batavia brings
17 unnamed Asian slaves (Malabar, Ceylon, Coromandel / Bengal and Bali) (mostly soon sold privately)):
Prinses Royaal brings 2 private slaves:
Catharina van Batavia [Catharina van Malabar / Bengale (born c. 1637)?] sold (3 April 1662) sent by Jacob Does in Batavia with merchant Gillis Nonnemans sailing on Princess Royaal to hand over to Jochem Blanck (from Lübeck) at the Cape;
Pieter van Ceylon sold (28 March 1662) by Jacob Does to Jochem Blanck (from Lübeck) for 50.00;
Marserveeren brings 15 slaves:
Baddou / Barru van Bali
Maria van Bali
Jeronimus van Coromandel
Matthijs van Coromandel
Jan (Jantje) van Bengale
Adriaen (Arie) van Bengale
Gratia d’Costa
Paul(o) van Malabar
Catharina van Bengale (born c. 1651)
Helena van Malabar
Jacob Cornelisse: van Colombo / Malabar / Bengale
Jan Luij / Leeuw van Ceylon
Ventura van Ceylon
Marquart [Pai] van Ceylon
Florinda van Jafnapatnam."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.129. 26.2.1672, V. pp. 175-176: Florinda from Jafnapatam (30). sold by Adrianus de Vooght to Nathaniel Goethardt, junior merchant sailing on the Hollantsen Thuyn, for Rds. 70.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 26.2.1672 CTD 5, p. 175
Eerwaarde Adrianus de Vooght, predikant ‘te deser plaetse beroepen,’ verkoop aan sr. Nathaniel Goethandt, onderkoopman op die skip den Hollantsen thuijn, die slavin Florinda van Jaffanapatnam, ongeveer 30 jaar oud, vir 70 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."