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

Orson van Madagascar¹

M, #14821, b. circa 1672

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Last Edited

10/01/2015

BirthOrigin*

Orson was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1672.¹

Slave Transactions

On 27 December 1686 Orson van Madagascar and Jacob van Madagascar were sold by Roelof Diodati to Theunis Dircksen Schalckwyck, for Rds. 64.²
On 28 February 1687 Orson van Madagascar and Jacob van Madagascar were sold by Theunis Dircksen van Schalckwyck to Pieter Jansz van der Westhuijsen.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.148.. 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.148. 27.12.1686: Orson and Jacob from Madagascar (14 and 15 respectively), sold by Roelof Diodati of the Jambi, to Theunis Dircx van Schalkwijck for Rds. 64.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.149. 28.2.1687: Orson from Madagascar (17/18), and Jacob from Madagascar (13/14), sold by Theunis Dircx van Schalkwijck to Pieter Jansz van der Westhuijsen for Rds. 84 for both.