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

Domingo van Bengale¹

M, #15914, b. 1659/60

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Last Edited

23/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Domingo was from Bengal and was perhaps born there in 1659/60. He was said to be 32 or 33 years old in 1692.¹

Slave Transactions

On 21 June 1692 Domingo van Bengale was sold by Pieter Hermans to Lambert Adrianse van Weede, for Rds. 70.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.161.. 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.161. 2l.6.1692, pp. 99-100: Domingo from Bengal (32/33), sold by Pieter Hermans, first mate of the Ridderschap, to Lambert Adriaens for Rds. 70.