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

Jan Tuticorin¹

M, #15427, b. circa 1663

Copyright / Terms of Use Notice

The material on this website is subject to copyright.
Facts (names, dates, and places) are not copyright. You are free to transcribe them but not cut and paste into your data provided you use the correct attribution and citation.
I have created the narratives, sentences, and citations; they are copyright and may not be used.
You may not add them to your genealogy, your personal documents, your tree on Ancestry, nor in the data or profile sections on Geni, nor anywhere else.
Many of the images are also copyright. You may not copy them without the consent of the copyright holders.
You must use the correct attribution and citation, viz.: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. Here you add the page URL.

Last Edited

12/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Jan was from Thoothukudi known then as Tuticorin. He was perhaps born there circa 1663. He was said to be 12 years old when sold as a slave in 1675.¹

Slave Transactions

Michiel van Paleacatte and Jan Tuticorin were sold by Reijnier Claassen, to Jeronimus Cruse on 21 April 1675, for Rds 70.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 131. 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.131. 21.4.1675: Michiel from Paleacatte (10) and Jan Tuticorin (12), sold by skipper Reijnier Claassen to Jeronimus Cruse for Rds. 70.
[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): 21.4.1675 [Verlore]
Skipper Reijnier Claassen verkoop aan Jeronimus Cruse die slawe Michiel van Paleacatte, 10 jaar, en Jan van Tuticorin, 12 jaar oud, vir 70 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."