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21/11/2014

(Fleet) ShipVoyage

On 4 December 1656 the Amersfoort, Wapen van Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Wapen van Holland, Westfriesland and Prins Willem, ships of the return fleet, left Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 21 February 1657. The Prins Willem brought the recently convicted and banished slave Catharina van Paliacatta, while the Amersfoort brought the slaves Angela van Bengale, Elisabeth van Bengale, Jan van Bengale, Claes van Bengale and Anna van Bengalen.²

Citations

[S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006). Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
[S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "21 February 1657: Return Fleet ex Batavia arrives:
Prins Willem brings exiled convict (Company slave)
Catharina (Groote Catrijn) van Paliacatta [Pulicat]
Amersfoort brings 5 private slaves
Angela / Engela (Maaij Ansela / Moeder Jagt) van Bengale [sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Bengale [misrecorded as Domingo [sic] - sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
Jan van Bengale [sold to Jan Vetteman]
Claes van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)]
Anna van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)]."