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  2. Boschendal - Wikipedia

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    The farm's title deeds are dated 1685. The estate's first owner, Jean le Long, was one of the party of 200 French Huguenot refugees who were fleeing religious persecution in Europe. He was granted land in the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in 1688 and the title deed was written in 1713. In 1715 the farm was acquired by ...

  3. History of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    The first Europeans to reach the Cape were the Portuguese. Bartholomeu Dias arrived in 1488 after journeying south along the west coast of Africa. The next recorded European sighting of the Cape was by Vasco da Gama in 1497 while he was searching for a route that would lead directly from Europe to Asia.

  4. Dirk Coetsee - Wikipedia

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    In the record of the deed of transfer in the Deeds Office in Cape Town, it is listed as being erf E4574 in the "Heere Gragt in Block C, no.2 - date 3 June 1728 - bordered to the north-east by the erf of the Honourable Lord de Wet, to the north-west by the erf of Advocate Aalders and south-west by the captain of engineering the Honourable Lord ...

  5. Cape foot - Wikipedia

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    A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property. [1] It was identically equal to the Rijnland voet and was introduced into South Africa by the Dutch settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century ...

  6. Greyton - Wikipedia

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    This was the only town in the Cape in which such land with full title deeds, water rights and grazing rights was for sale to anyone. In the 1860s, Herbert married a young girl of British stock named Elizabeth Belshaw – 27 years his junior.

  7. 1838 in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The following lists events that happened during 1838 in South Africa. Events. February. 4 February - The Zulu King, Dingaan signs a deed of cession ... in Cape Town ...

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