EVENT INFORMATION

20
June
1836

Cornelis van Hoogwerp’s manumission follows a petition and bond

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📅 20 June 1836 📍 Curacao

The index records Cornelis van Hoogwerp’s manumission by Anna Elizabeth Daal, widow of J.G. Schuler. It links the decision to a petition dated 6 January and a bond dated 16 April 1836. Such records document the colonial process, while leaving questions about Cornelis’s own role and subsequent life unanswered.

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Cornelis van Hoogwerp

Anna Elizabeth Daal

J.G. Schuler

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Colonial manumission administration