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

Arent van Madagascar¹

M, #15664, b. circa 1655

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Last Edited

23/12/2014

BirthOrigin*

Arent was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1655.¹

Slave Transactions

On 30 December 1682 Arent van Madagascar was sold by Rebecca van Baelbergen to Johannes Smith.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.139.. 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. 139, 30.12.1682: Arent from Madagascar, sold by Rebecca van Baelberge, the widow of Petrus Hulsenaer, to sick-comforter Johannes Smith for Rds. 50.