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

Jan van Macassar¹

M, #16123, b. circa 1671

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Last Edited

07/04/2015

BirthOrigin*

Jan was from Macassar and was perhaps born there circa 1671. He was said to be 24 years old in 1695.¹

Slave Emancipations

On 24 March 1695 Jan van Macassar was emancipated by Nicolaas de Helt.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.168.. 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.168. 24.3.1695, p. 93: Jan from Macassar (24), freed by Nicolaas de Helt, who was sailing on the Crab.