Okker Oosthuyzen writes from the Kammanassie as the rising of 1799 approaches
about 1799-07–31 July 1799 · family · Die suidelike Olifantsrivier (De Rust-Uniondale)
In the Khoikhoi rising of July 1799 Okker Oosthuyzen, writing with B. Lindeque from the Kammanassie, warned the Lange Kloof field cornet P.H. van Rooyen ('Cousin Piet') that H. Strydom and J. Scheepers and their wives had been killed, the Baviaans Kloof abandoned, and that the rebels in three parties were 'proceeding to destroy the country as far as the Cango'. Van Rooyen told the landdrost of Swellendam that Okker 'lives only at the distance of half a day's journey on horseback from here'. By 13 August the rebels held the Olifants River country as far as Van der Walt's, where armed burghers stopped them. The earliest record placing Ockert Oosthuizen (b. 1755) in the Kammanassie and Olifants country, ten years before his estate was inventoried at de Modder Fonteyn. [SRC-661, pp. 448-453, 469, 472]
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Sources
- G.M. Theal (ed.), Records of the Cape Colony, vol. II (1897): the Swellendam letters of July-August 1799, including a letter from Okker Oosthuyzen in the Kammanassie vol. II pp. 448-453 (the July 1799 letters, 'Copy of Translation'), p. 469 (Faure, 13 Aug 1799), p. 472 (Dundas, 20 Aug 1799)