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

Pieter van Tranquebar¹

M, #16071, b. circa 1683

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Last Edited

04/04/2015

BirthOrigin*

Pieter was from the Tranquebar and was perhaps born there circa 1683. He was said to be 12 years old in 1694.¹

Slave Transactions

On 18 January 1695 Jan van Tranquebar and Pieter van Tranquebar were sold by Frans Meyer to Andrijs de Man, for Rds. 60 each.²

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. 18.1.1695, p. 45-46: Jan (17) and Pietcr (12) from Tranquebaer, sold by the
Danish captain Frans Meyer to Andries de Man for Rds. 60 each.