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

Jan van Bengale¹

M, #15411, b. circa 1654

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Last Edited

05/03/2016

Birth*

Jan van Bengale was born circa 1654 in Bengal, was from.¹

Slave Transactions

Jan van Bengale was sold by an unnamed sailor to Jan Jansz van Oldenburgh on 21 May 1674, the sale price was crossed out in the record.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 130.. 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): 21.5.1674 CTD 6, p. 115
Jan Jansz, matroos op die skip … wat na die vaderland seilvaardig lê, verkoop aan Jan Jansz van Oldenburgh alhier die slaaf Jan van Bengale, 20 jaar. [Koopsom is deurgehaal en is onleesbaar.]. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 139, 21.5.1674, VI, p. 115: Jan from Bengal (20), sold by a sailor to Jan Jansz.