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

Thomas van Madagascar¹

M, #15784, b. circa 1664

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Last Edited

24/12/2015

BirthOrigin*

Thomas was from Madurese Coast and perhaps born there circa 1664.¹

Slave Transactions

On 29 May 1684 Thomas van Madagascar was sold by Jacob Cool to Gerhard Pieterszoon van der Bijl, for Rds. 70.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 142.. 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. 142. 29.5.1684: Thomas from Madagascar (20), sold by Jacob Cool to Gerrit van der Bijl for Rds. 70. Thomas is described as "geboortig van de Madurese Cust".