EVENT INFORMATION

14
January
1817

Cathalina is freed under a will

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📅 14 January 1817 📍 Curacao

A 14 January 1817 record concerns Cathalina, daughter of the deceased Isebia. The will of Isebia’s owner provided for Cathalina’s freedom, with executor Jan Schotborgh named in the record. The case preserves a mother–daughter relationship and shows how a child’s future could depend on a will and an executor’s actions.

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Cathalina

Isebia

Jan Schotborgh

Organizations in this Event

Colonial manumission administration