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

Claas van Bengale¹

M, #15451, b. circa 1664

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Last Edited

12/03/2016

Birth*

Claas van Bengale was born circa 1664 in Bengal, was from.¹

Slave Transactions

On 21 February 1676 Claas van Bengale was sold by Jacob Hinlopen to Johannes Praetorius, for Rds. 42.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 131. 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.131. 21.2.1676: Claas from Bengal (11 /12), sold by Jacob Hinlopen to Johannes Praetorius for Rds. 42.
[S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 21.2.1676 [Verlore]
Jacob Hinlopen verkoop aan Johannes Praetorius die slaaf Claas van Bengale, 11/12 jaar oud, vir 42 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."