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

Jacobus Swaaf¹

M, #15955, b. circa 1645

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Last Edited

24/03/2015

Birth*

Jacobus Swaaf was born circa 1645.^1,2

Occupation*

On 31 March 1693 Jacobus Swaaf was the Rear-Admiral of the return fleet.³

Slave Transactions

On 31 March 1692 Barneveld van Malabar was sold on behalf of Matthijs de Vlamingh and Ludolph Coulster by Jacobus Swaaf, to Simon van der Stel for Rds. 50.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.162.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.162. 31.3.1693. p. 300: Barneveld from Malabar (24/25), sold by Jacobus Swaaf, Rear-Admiral of the fleet, on behalf of Matthijs de Vlamingh and Ludolph Coulster, to Simon van der Stel for Rds. 50.