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

Hans de Boer van Malabar¹

M, #17537, b. circa 1656

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Last Edited

24/01/2016

BirthOrigin*

Hans was from Malabar Coast and may have been born there circa 1656. His age is estimated based on the amount for which he was sold - it was the same amount paid a week earlier for a lad of 13 or 14.¹

Slave Transactions

On 18 March 1670 Hans de Boer van Malabar was sold by Gerrit Gerritsz Ridder Muijs to Pieter Eelrant.^1,2

Citations

[S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 18.3.1670 CTD 4, p.50
Gerrit Gerritsz Ridder Muijs, skipper van die hoeker De Grundel, verkoop aan Pieter Eelrant[?], oppermeester, die Mallabaarse jong Hans de Boer vir 25 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.128. 18.3.1670, IV, p. 50: Hans de Boer, "een Malabaerse jongen" sold by Gerrit Ridder Muys, skipper of De Grundel to Pietcr Eelrant (?) an official (oppermeester) at the Cape.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.