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

Paris van Malabar¹

M, #16504, b. circa 1671

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Last Edited

19/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Paris was from the Malabar Coast and was perhaps born there circa 1671. He was said to be 26 years old in 1697.¹

Slave Transactions

On 19 October 1697 Paris van Malabar was sold by Simon van der Stel to Octavius van Macassar, for Rds. 50.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 180.. 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. 180. 19.10.1697. p. 264 (verso): Paris from Malabar (26), sold by Simon van der Stel to Octavio from Macassar for Rds. 50.