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

Cal van Madagascar¹

F, #15527, b. circa 1660

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Last Edited

12/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Cal was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1660.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

17 April 1677, the name of Cal was written in the record as Col van Madagascar.²

Slave Transactions

On 17 April 1677 Cal van Madagascar was sold by Adriaen van Asperen to Laurens Visscher, for Rds. 40.¹

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.134. 17.4.1677: Cal from Madagascar, a slave woman, sold by skipper Adriaan van Asperen to Lourens Visser for Rds. 40.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[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): 17.4.1677 [Verlore, TS I]
Skipper Adriaan van Asperen verkoop aan Lourens Visser, sersant, die slavin Col van Madagaskar vir 40 Rds. [Nagesien]. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."