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

Jan van Madagascar¹

M, #15560, b. circa 1656

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Last Edited

19/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Jan was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1656.¹

Slave Transactions

On 21 February 1678 Jan van Madagascar was sold by Johan Corten to Steven Jansz Botma, for f 100.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.135.. 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.135; 21.2.1678: Jan from Madagascar, sold by Johan Corten to Steven Jansz from Wageningen for f 100.
[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): 21.2.1678 TS 3, g.p.
Johan Cortez, assistent alhier, verkoop aan die vryburger Steven Jansz die slaaf Jan van Madagaskar vir f 100.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."