Marcus van Bengale1

M, #15675, b. circa 1663

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Last Edited25/03/2016
BirthOrigin*Marcus was from Bengal and perhaps born there circa 1663. He was 20 years old when sold as a slave in 1682. The toponym 'van Bengale' or from Bengal - was a term loosely applied during the period of VOC dominance to enslaved or formerly enslaved people from any of the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal.1 

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Slave TransactionsOn 5 June 1683 Marcus van Bengale was sold by Jacob Dircx Jaarsma to Simon van der Stel, for Rds. 40.2
On 21 August 1685 Marcus van Bengale was sold by Simon van der Stel to Johann Heinrich Vlok, for Rds. 65.3

Citations

  1. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 140.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  2. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 140. 5.6.1683: Marcus from Bengal (20) sold by Jacob Dircxz Jaarsma, skipper on Asia, on behalf of Jacob Overwater for Rds. 40 to Simon van der Stel.
  3. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 142. 21.1.1685, p. 84: Marcus from Bengal (age unknown) sold by Simon van der Stel to Johannes Vlack for Rds. 65. [This date is corrected to 21.8.1685 by Shell.]
  4. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), October 2014. "[Marcus van Bengale] is also likely to be the biological father of heelslag slave, Nicolaas Marcus."
 

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