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

Abraham van Madagascar¹

M, #15856, b. circa 1660

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Last Edited

29/12/2014

BirthOrigin*

Abraham was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1660.¹

Slave Transactions

On 12 December 1685 Abraham van Madagascar was sold by Theunis de Hoop to Jeronimus Cruse, for Rds. 40.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 143.. 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. 143. 12.12.1685, p. 162: Abraham from Madagascar, sold by Theunis de Hoop, the skipper of the Baren, to Jeronimus Cruse for Rds. 40.