Background - continued
7/6/1685 ... the French ships ... at last tacked out of the bay in the afternoon ...
16/6 ... the ships Bantam and Voorschoten received their despatches ... the Hon. St Martin went aboard the Bantam...
16/7 [Van Reede's Instructions include orders to build the Kat* within the new Fort*] ... still commanded by the Lions Rump; and in short no fort can be placed in the Table Valley so as to command the water and the anchorage, without being subjected to being commanded in its turn ... now 30 families near the Fort plus 24 between the Table Valley and the Steenbergen ... 99 families at Stellenbosch ... a Superintendent to be appointed with the title of Landdrost ... over the village of Stellenbosch ... ‘garrison’ 332, but including civilians ...
17/7 ... sailed ... Purmer and the flute* Adringhem [with van Reede]
31/7 Kaapse Grondbreve [grant of Constantia to Simon van der Stel, more than 891 morgen,* by van Reede confirming the verbal grant by van Goens Junior]
8/10 [Letter from Holland of that date advises the sending of 45 orphan girls, for marriage at the Cape]
12/10 This morning two ships were seen lying in the roads ... Pylswaart and Mierop [no mention of men from Pylswaart lost on Table Mountain as in item 39; and this appears to have been her only call, in her maiden voyage during which she was wrecked homewards]
30/10 Resolutions ... the new [water corn-] mill behind the Coy's garden ... already working...
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