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

Pieter van Madagascar¹

M, #16799, b. circa 1680

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Last Edited

28/08/2019

BirthOrigin*

Pieter was from Madagascar and was perhaps born there circa 1680. He was said to be 20 years old in 1700.¹

Slave Transactions

On 23 January 1700 Pieter van Madagascar was sold by Heribert Dompselaar to Christian Elers, for Rds. 60.²
On 29 March 1701 Pieter van Madagascar was sold by Christian Elers to Willem Adriaan van der Stel.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 191.. 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. 191. 23.1.1700: Pieter from Madagascar (20), sold by Heribertus van Dompselaar to Christiaan Eilers for Rds. 60.
[S569] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, The Defence of Willem Adriaan van der Stel, H.C.V. Leibrandt; CD-ROM (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1987), p.126. 1701. 29th March.— The freeman Cbrist[ian] Eylers transfers his slave Pieter of … [I have assumed this to be Pieter van Madagascar, as he was the only slave thus named owned by Elers.]. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.