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

Simon van Madagascar¹

M, #15579, b. circa 1653

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Last Edited

19/03/2016

Birth*

Simon van Madagascar was born circa 1653 in Madagascar.¹

Slave Transactions

On 12 August 1678 Simon van Madagascar was sold by Aletta van Hinloopen to Gerhard Pieterszoon van der Bijl, for Rds. 80.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.136.. 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.136. 12.8.1678: Simon van Madagascar, sold by Aletta Hinlopen to Gerrit van der Bijl for Rds. 80.
[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): 19.8.1678 TS 3, g.p.
Mej Aletta van Hinloopen, weduwee van die EHr Johan Bax van Herentals, in lewe goewerneur alhier, verkoop aan Gerrit van der Bijl, burgerraad alhier, die slaaf Simon van Madagaskar vir 80 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."