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Pasquael van der Caep^1,2

M, #15574, b. 1677

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19/03/2016

Birth*

Pasquael van der Caep was born in 1677 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.²

Slave Transactions

On 19 July 1678 Fransois van Malabar, Jobicque van Bengale and Pasquael van der Caep were sold by Aletta van Hinloopen, to Tobias Vlasvat, for Rds. 170. Pasquaal — the child of Jobicque and Francoise — was just one year old and Böeseken and Hattingh disagree on the interpretation of this transaction. Böeseken says a condition of the sale was that Pasquael was not to be sold and that he was to be freed at age 20; while Hattingh says he could be sold until age 20 and was thereafter to be freed. This latter interpretation appears to be more accurate, because Vlasvat sold Pacquael the following year imposing a similar condition to the sale.^3,4
On 15 November 1679 Pasquael van der Caep was sold by Tobias Vlasvat to Hilletje Redoch, this child was sold away from his parents at two years old. A condition of the sale was that he was not to be sold prior to age 20 when he was to be emancipated.⁵

Citations

[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): 19.7.1678 TS 3, g.p.
...‘n jongetjie Pasquael, een jaar oud en deur die twee slawe verwek; .... Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.136.. 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.136. 19.7.1678: Francois from Malabar, Jobique from Bengal and Pasquaal (one year old), sold by Aletta van Hinlopen, the widow of the late Jo(h)an Bax, to the fiscal Tobias Vlasvat on condition that Pasquaal was not to be sold and would be freed at the age of 20 years.
[S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 19.7.1678 TS 3, g.p.
Juffrou Aletta van Hinloopen, weduwee van die heer Johan Bax van Heerentals, goewerneur alhier, verkoop aan Tobias Vlasvat, fiskaal alhier, die slaaf Fransois van Malabar en die slavin Jobicque van Bengale, daarbenewens aan die koper ook ‘n lyfeie, ‘n jongetjie Pasquael, een jaar oud en deur die twee slawe verwek; mag hom tot hy die ouderdom van 20 jaar bereik het verkoop wanneer hy dan uit sy diensbaarheid ontslaan en vry gelaat moet word, vir 170 Rds.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.138; 15.11.1679: Slave boy named Pasquaal, aged 2, sold by Tobias Vlasvath the fiscal, to Hilletje Redoux, the widow of Johannes Valckenrijck, on condition that he would not be sold before he reached the age of 20, when he was to be set free.