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

Adam van Madagascar¹

M, #15225, b. between 1667 and 1668

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Last Edited

05/01/2015

BirthOrigin*

Adam was from Madagascar and perhaps born there between 1667 and 1668.²

Slave Transactions

On 5 May 1686 Adam van Madagascar was sold by William Deeron to Willem Janssen, for Rds. 53.³
On 7 September 1686 Adam van Madagascar was sold by Willem Janssen to Gerrit Cloette, in exchange for 38 ewes.⁴

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.147.. 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.145.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.145. 5.5.1686: Adam from Madagascar (20/22), sold by Will Deeron to Willem Jansz for Rds. 53.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.147. 7.9.1686: Adam from Madagascar (18/19), exchanged by Willem Jansz for 38 ewes belonging to Gerrit Cloete.