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

Hendrick van der Overcust¹

M, #15833, b. circa 1659

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Last Edited

27/12/2014

Birth*

Hendrick van der Overcust was born circa 1659.¹

Slave Emancipations

Hendrick van der Overcust was emancipated by Machteld Cupido, on 26 January 1685, on condition that for a year he was to serve Louis de Berault.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. 26.1.1685, p. 3: Hendrick from tIle "Overcust", manumitted by Machteld Cupido, the widow of the "opper-chirurgyn" Albertus Lanbergen, but before becoming a Free Black he was to serve Lodewijck van Bureau for a year.