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

Scipio van Malabar¹

M, #16675, b. circa 1678

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Last Edited

25/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Scipio was from the Malabar Coast and was perhaps born there circa 1678. He was said to be 20 years old in 1699.¹

Slave Transactions

On 5 March 1699 Scipio van Malabar was sold by Elbert Buys to Joan Blesius, for Rds. 55.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 186.. 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. 186. 5.5.1699: Scipio from Malabar (20), sold by Elbert Buys, an advocate and fiscal in Batavia and now Vice-Admiral of the return fleet, to Joan Blesius for Rds. 55.