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

April van de Kust Malabar¹

M, #16704, b. circa 1679

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Last Edited

26/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

April was from the Malabar Coast and was perhaps born there circa 1679. This location is assumed given that a condition of his sale in 1699 was that he never be permitted to return to Batavia or the Malabar Coast. He was said to be 20 years old in 1699.¹

Slave Transactions

On 13 March 1699 April van de Kust Malabar was sold on behalf of Johan Mency by Joannes Hoffman to Johannes Heufke, for Rds. 58 on condition that April never be permited to return to Batavia or the Malabar Coast.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 188.. 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. 188. 13.3.1699: April from the Coast (20), sold by Joannes Hoffman, merchant on the Dregteriand, on behalf of Johan Mency in Batavia, to Jan Hufke for Rds. 58 on condition that the slave would never return to Batavia or to the Coast of Malabar.