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Hamminja van Macassar¹

M, #16637, b. circa 1665

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Last Edited

11/03/2019

Birth*

Hamminja van Macassar was born circa 1665.¹

Misc*

Hamminja van Macassar was included in a list of Maccassarese royalty — Lijst … de … Macasarschen Princen C.501 — sent on 5 September 1686 from the Cape to the VOC in Batavia on 5 September 1686.²

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

5 September 1686, the name of Hamminja was written in the record as Haminda van Mesopatam.²

Slave Transactions

On 26 September 1698 Polak van Macassar was sold by Hendrik Carsseboom to Hamminja van Macassar, for Rds. 100.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 185.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007), section on the princes of macassar, citing Letters despatched: Lijst … de … Macasarschen Princen C.501. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 185. 26.9.1698: Polak from Macassar (34), sold by Hendrik Carsseboom to the Macassar named Hamminja.