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

Jan van Oldenburgh van Bengale¹

M, #15630, b. circa 1665

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Last Edited

22/12/2014

BirthOrigin*

Jan was from Bengal and perhaps born there circa 1665.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

6 March 1680, the name of Jan was written in the record as Jan van Oldenburgh van Bengale.²

Slave Transactions

On 6 March 1680 Jan van Oldenburgh van Bengale was sold by Dirck Jansz Smient to Simon van der Stel.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.138.. 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.138; 6.3.1680: Jan van Oldenburgh, "geboortig van Bengale", sold by Dirck Jansz Smient to Simon van der Stel for Rds. 35.