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

Cupido van Trancquebar¹

M, #16515, b. circa 1680

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Last Edited

20/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Cupido was from Trancquebar and was perhaps born there circa 1680. He was said to be 18 years old in 1698.¹

Slave Transactions

On 10 January 1698 Cupido van Trancquebar was sold by Cornelis Krijnsz Rood to Johann Heinrich Vlok, for Rds. 75.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 181.. 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. 181. 10.1.1698, p. 293 (verso): Cupido from Trancquebaer (18), sold by Cornelis Krijnssen Rood to Jan Vlok for Rds. 75.