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

Unnamed van Colombo¹

M, #16306, b. circa 1676

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Last Edited

13/05/2015

Birth*

Unnamed van Colombo was born circa 1676 in Colombo.¹

Slave Transactions

On 14 November 1696 Unnamed van Colombo was given by Leendert van Deijl to Oelof Bergh, in replacement of a slave who had absconded in about May1692.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 174.. 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. 174. 14.11.1696, pp. 118 (verso) - 119: Leendert van Deijl, skipper of the Berkel, remembers that about four and a half years earlier he had bought a slave for Oloff Bergh in Colombo. This slave had run away and Van DeijI had promised that he would buy another slave in Colombo to replace the fugitive.