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

Roffing van Paleacatta¹

M, #15921, b. 1678/79

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Last Edited

23/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Roffing was from Pulicat and was perhaps born there in 1678/79. He was said to be 13 or 14 years old in 1692.¹

Slave Transactions

On 24 June 1692 Roffing van Paleacatta was sold by Stephen Barbar to Claes Loopser, for Rds. 60.²

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. 24.6.1692, pp. 107-108: Roffing from Paleacatta (13/14), sold by Captain Steven Barbar to Claes Loupser for Rds. 60.