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

Maria van Madagascar¹

F, #15555, b. circa 1658

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Last Edited

13/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Maria was from Madagascar and perhaps born there circa 1658.¹

Slave Transactions

On 14 January 1678 Maria van Madagascar was sold by Cornelis Cornelisz to Wilhelm van Dieden, for Rds. 40.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.135.. 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.135; 14.1.1678: Maria from Madagascar, sold by Cornelis Cornelisz from Rotterdam, skipper of the Quartel, to Wi1lem van Diedem for Rds. 40.
[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): 14.1.1678 TS 3, g.p.
Comelis Comelisz van Rotterdam, skipper op die hoeker De Quartel, verkoop aan Willem van Dieden, vry ingesetene alhier, die slavin Maria van Madagaskar vir 40 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."