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

Baatje van Macassar¹

M, #16598, b. circa 1679

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Last Edited

23/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

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

Slave Transactions

On 25 April 1698 Baatje van Macassar and Salomon van Macassar were was sold on behalf of Jan van Hoorn by Hugo de Goijer to Jan Dircks de Beer, for Rds. 130.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 184.. 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. 184. 25.4.1698: Baatje (19) and Salomon (24), both from Macassar, sold by Hugo de Goyer on behalf of Joan van Hoorn to Jan Dircx de Beer for Rds. 130.