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

Alexander van Bengale¹

M, #16435, b. circa 1682

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Last Edited

17/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Alexander was from Bengal and was perhaps born there circa 1682. Van Bengale - or from Bengal - was a term loosely applied during the period of VOC dominance to enslaved or formerly enslaved people from any of the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal. He was said to be 15 years old in 1697.¹

Slave Transactions

On 18 June 1697 Alexander van Bengale was sold by Hendrik Schrick to Johannes Pijthius, for Rds. 50.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 178.. 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. 178. 18.6.1697, p. 204: Alexander from Bengal (15), sold by Hendrik Strik (signature Schrick), first mate of De Waterman. to Johannes Pithius for Rds. 50.