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Burger Drakenstein
- By that time Johannes Booyens had become bedridden and towards the end of 1761 he managed to sell the pontoon to Pieter Joubert Gideonsz for 7 500 guilders. It was agreed that Joubert would pay 5 000 guilders
immediately and the rest in three annual instalments.55 As could be expected by now the arrears were not paid at the time stipulated, because by 1763 Joubert had great difficulty in collecting the pontoon fees from the burghers. Part of the difficulty was that a new pontoon had been started across the Breede River and the farmers from Swellendam objected to paying a fee to the Berg River pontoon. The landdrost decided that as the Breede River pontoon had been in operation only since 1757, all burghers
would have to pay the arrears up to that year. That Pieter Joubert did not hesitate to invoke the law is shown by a court case against Johannes Kruger who was said to owe 80 guilders for the use of the pontoon over a period of ten years. Kruger's defence was that he had paid. After he had brought witnesses to testify for him, it was decided that he still owed 29 guilders and 12 stivers. In 1775 Pieter Joubert complained that several farmers along the Berg
River were using their own boats to cross. This was forbidden and those who made no use of Joubert's pontoon were fined 10 rix-dollars.That the owner of the Berg River pontoon could not have done too badly is shown by the fact that after Joubert's death his son, Gideon, bought the pontoon from the estate of his father for 13 000 guilders. Joubert, after trying to raise the tariff and not obtaining an answer from the landdrost, had however lost faith in the future. He sold the pontoon lock, stock and barrel, to Frans Abraham Christiaansen69 who in turn sold it two years later to Johan Riche for 17 000 guilders. [1, 2]
- "His father, Johannes (Booyens), operates the much debated ?pont? across the Berg River; a role that causes friction with the rest of the burghers at the Cape. By agreement with the authorities Johannes charges 8 Caapse gulden per crossing; the source of the unhappiness. After his death in 1763 his wife, Magdalena, continues the operation" [3]
- Het op die plaas Lemietrivier gewoon
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1726 - 1776 (49 years)
, d. 1 Aug 1739, Drakenstein (Paarl)