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

Cupido of the Khoe¹

M, #19109, b. circa 1675

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09/05/2019

Birth*

Cupido of the Khoe was born circa 1675 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, the date is estimated. He and 7 other Khoen testified during the 1707 hearing staged by W.A. van der Stel to defend himself against accusations from a number of settlers.¹

Citations

[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.136. Appendix M2. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.