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

Claas van Bengale¹

M, #16574, b. circa 1679

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Last Edited

22/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Claas was from Bengal and was perhaps born there circa 1679. He was said to be 19 years old in 1698.¹

Slave Transactions

On 11 March 1698 Claas van Bengale was sold by Johannes van Reenen to Hendrick Bouman, for Rds. 75.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 183.. 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. 183. 11.3.1698: Oaas from Bengal (19), sold by lohannes van Reenen, the sickcomforter on the return ship Donkervliet, to Hendrik Bouman for Rds. 75.