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- Burger Swellendam
Boer "Welbedagt" en Zandkraal" (onderskeidelik 'Eastford" en "Westford" in die teenswoordige Knysna-omgewing) en Melkhoutkraal (1770-1791) distrik Swellendam.
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1771: Stephanus Terblanche marries Hester Marx aged 17, from Mosselbay. They were to have 12 children.
The natural forests near Cape Town were all but denuded by timber demands for ships and wagons by the 1770s and this created a keen interest in Knysna’s forest timber supplies development.
1778: Governor Joachim van Plettenberg headed an exploration with this in mind.
1794: Stehanus Tereblanche 44, died leaving his widow and 12 children.
1798: Hester Terblanche 45, sold Melkhoutkraal to Johann von Lindenbaum
1799: A Xhosa incursion of the Langkloof and coastal area in July was turned back. This began the Third Frontier War.
1800: Numerous Xhosa raids took place as the warriors invaded the colony as far as Mosselbay. Many farms were burnt to the ground.
By the end of the eighteenth century there were about 12 dwellings between George & Knysna. At this time George Callander was sent to determine the feasibility of shipping timber from Outeniqualand. He was the first European to settle at the Knysna Heads. 1802: Melkhoutkraal homestead burnt in Xhosa raid. A commando under Commandant Philip Rudolph Botha followed the raiders and completely destroyed them at Kafferskop (North of the Garden of Eden and know known as Fisanthoek). 1804: George Rex (a timber merchant and the founder of Knysna) purchased the farm Melkhoutkraal, effectively taking ownership of all the land surrounding the lagoon. In those early days the topography of South Africa made the transport of timber and other products by ox-wagon an impossible nightmare. The answer, Rex believed, was a harbour on the shores of the lagoon, inside The Heads, the two promontories guarding the entrance. The lagoon was duly surveyed by James Callander, a retired shipwright and friend of George Rex.
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