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

Isaak van Cap Vert¹

M, #15439, b. circa 1655

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Last Edited

13/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Isaak was from Cap Vert and perhaps born there circa 1655. Cabo Verde was Cap Vert, now Dakar.^1,2

Slave Transactions

On 16 January 1676 Isaak van Cap Vert and Jacob van Cap Vert were sold by Cornelis Swart to Cornelis Botma, for Rds 155.^3,4

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.
[S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.131. 16.1.1676: Isaak and Jacob from Cape Verde, sold by skipper Cornelis Swart van Coevenaer to Cornelis Stevensz for Rds. 155. [I have assumed the purchaser was Cornelis Stevensz: Botma - corrections welcome.]
[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): 16.1.1676 [Verlore]
Skipper Comelis Swart van Coevenaer verkoop aan Comelis Stevensz die slawe Isaak en Jacob van Kaap Verde vir 155 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."