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

Nicolaas de Helt¹

M, #16124, b. circa 1655

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Last Edited

07/04/2015

Birth*

Nicolaas de Helt was born circa 1655.^1,2

Slave Emancipations

On 24 March 1695 Jan van Macassar was emancipated by Nicolaas de Helt.³
On 26 March 1695 Maria van der Kust Coromandel was emancipated by Nicolaas de Helt.⁴

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.
[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.168. 24.3.1695, p. 93: Jan from Macassar (24), freed by Nicolaas de Helt, who was sailing on the Crab.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.168. 26.3.1695, p. 93: Maria from the Coast (28), freed by Nicolaes de Hell, sailing on the Crab.