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

James Thwaites¹

M, #16539, b. circa 1665

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Last Edited

21/05/2015

Birth*

James Thwaites was born circa 1665.¹

Occupation*

On 11 February 1698 James Thwaites was the captain of the King William, an English vessel.^2,1

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

11 February 1698, the name of James was written in the record as Jacobus Thwaites.¹

Slave Transactions

On 11 February 1698 Pompejus van de Kust Coromandel was sold by James Thwaites to Joan Blesius, for Rds. 25.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 182.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S576] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1696-1708, H.C.V. Leibrandt; CD-ROM (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1896), p.70. It was the same with the English ship "King William," which almost had a "lost" voyage, and whose officers were so destitute of money that they could not have paid their expenses if we had not lent them f 1,308 light money, the amount advanced to them by Captain Twaits for the English Company.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 182. 11.2.1698: Pompejus from the Coast Coromandel (l2), sold by laeobus Thwaites (signature lames Thwaites), of the English vessel King William to Joan Blesius for Rds. 25.