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

David van der Kust Coromandel¹

M, #16050, b. between 1672 and 1674

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Last Edited

04/04/2015

BirthOrigin*

David was from the Coromandel Coast and was perhaps born there between 1672 and 1674. He was said to be between 20 and 22 years old in 1694.¹

Slave Transactions

On 2 June 1694 David van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Bernhard Caascoper to Hendrik Barent Oldenlandt, Caascoper had inherited David from the late Stephanus Phenix of Hougly. The record does not include the price paid.²
On 23 December 1694 David van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Hendrik Barent Oldenlandt to Willem Corsenaar, for f 440, Cape valuation.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.166.. 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.166. 2.6.1694: David from Coromandel (20/22), sold by Bernhard Caascoper, sailing on the Nigtevegt, to Hendrik Bernhard [sic] Oldenland. Caascoper had inherited this slave from the late Stephanus Phenix of Houghly.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.166. 23.12.1694, p. 38: David from Coromandel (23/24), sold by Hendrik Barends Oldenland to Willem Corssenaar for f 440, Cape valuation.