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

Mars van Madagascar¹

M, #15484, b. circa 1655

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Last Edited

12/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Mars was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1655.¹

Slave Transactions

On 22 December 1676 Mars van Madagascar was sold by Jan Cornelisse Swanshouck to Pieter Jansz van Westhuysen, for Rds. 45.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 133.. 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. 133. 22.12.1676: Mars from Madagascar, sold by Jan Cornelisz Swanshoeck, first mate of the V oorhout, to Pieter J ansz van der Westhuijsen for Rds. 45.
[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): 22. 12.1676 [Verlore]
Jan Cornelisz Swanshoeck, opperstuurman op die Voorhout, verkoop aan Pieter Jansz van der Westhuijsen die slaaf Mars van Madagaskar vir 45 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."