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Gerrit JANSEN VAN VUREN
b.1716
d.1736
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ JPJ van Vuren. Die Familie van Vuren: Stamboom van Gerrit van Vuren. (Published by Craft Pers, Babelegi)
Page 43, 25 Mar 2007. - ↑ JPJ van Vuren. Die Familie van Vuren: Stamboom van Gerrit van Vuren. (Published by Craft Pers, Babelegi)
Page 43.
- ↑ JPJ van Vuren. Die Familie van Vuren: Stamboom van Gerrit van Vuren. (Published by Craft Pers, Babelegi)
Page 43, 25 Mar 2007.
- ↑ Jose Burman. Who really discovered South Africa.
- ↑ The death of Gerrit Jansen van Vuren in 1739 is described in the book "Who really discovered South Africa" written by Jose Burman. A certain Hermanus Hubner arranged a trade expedition at the end of 1739 to what is today known as the Transkei,Eastern Cape, South Africa. The expedition party consisted of Hubner, Hendrik de Vries, Coenraad Scheffer, Johannes and Daniel de Vries, Jan Bruyns, Christoffel van Hoogreefde, Louis Cloete and Gerrit and his farther Johannes.
The Xhosa chief Palo whose kraal was in the vicinity of the current town of Butterworth in the Transkei received them with open arms. After exchanging pleasantries they moved further north in search of ivory. On the way they run into and merged with another expedition.
The merged expedition in moving further north (some of the expedition members afterwards reckoned that they trekked as far as the current Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) found three English "skipbreukelinge" Thomas Miller, Henry Clarke and William Billet who adapted to the local tribes traditions and married three of their women. They exchanged large quantities of ivory (up to 10 wagons full) from the English and started the long journey southwards.
On the way back Hermanus Hubner decided to pay another courtesy visit to Palo. He send most of the expedition to trek onwards to the Cape with seven of the wagons (including Gerrit's farther Johannes) but took Frederick Hubner, Andries Esterhuysen, Phillip Constant, Anthony Portze and Gerrit van Vuren with him to visit Chief Palo.
Palo treated them as royalty for a week long. He even donated 8 oxen to the visiting party as a gift. Out of the blue Palo's men attacked Hubner one day killing him with their spears. The same fate befell the other burgers including Gerrit. Some of the wounded Hottentots servants managed to escape and reached the rest of the expedition moving southwards (they were delayed by swollen rivers and adverse weather). Palo's army however chased after them and they had to leave behind all their possessions including the ivory to escape injury.
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