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

Robert van Ambon

M, #16845, b. circa 1680

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Last Edited

29/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

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

Slave Transactions

On 22 April 1700 Robert van Ambon was sold by Pieter van Convent to Jacobus de Wet, for Rds. 60.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 193.. 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. 193. 22.4.1700: Robert from Ambon (20), sold by Pieter van Convent, first mate of the Overrijp, to Jacobus de Wit for Rds. 60.