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

Claas van Bengale¹

M, #15493, b. circa 1657

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Last Edited

12/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Claas was from Bengal and perhaps born there circa 1657.¹

Slave Transactions

On 3 March 1677 Claas van Bengale was sold by Johannes Ravensbergh to Gerrit Jansz, for Rds. 70.^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.
[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): 3.3.1677 TS I, g.p.
Johannes Ravensbergh, mediese dokter in diens, verkoop aan Gerrit Jansz van Wijngom, vryburger alhier, die slaaf Claas van Bengale vir 70 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 133.3.3.1677: Claas from Bengal, sold by Johannes Ravensbergh to Gerrit Jansz van Wijnegom for Rds. 70.