The period embraced by this journal covers the tenure of office by Governors Adriaan van der Stel, Johan D'Ableing, Louis van Assemburg, William Helot, the Marquis de Chavonnes, Gysbert van Noordt, Johan de la Fontein, and Adriaan van Kervel(in part), and the contents afford an interesting description of the everyday life in the Cape Colony at this period, together with a record of the more important events occurring during a part of the eighteenth century, of which, according to Mr, Leibbrandt, little is known- much less than is known of the times of Van Riebeeck and his immediate successors.
Among the more noteworthy matters alluded to in the journal are the wreck of the Merestein; a naval fight between Dutch and French squadrons in April 1796: the disputes between the burghers of Stellenbosch and their Landrost: the recalls of Governor W. Adriaan van der Stel, the "Secunde" Elsevier, the Rev. P.Kalden, and the Landrost Johan Starrenburgh: together with an account of the friction between the Council and the Rev.I.F. Le Boucq.
SOURCE: Mendelssohn. Volume 1. Page 878.
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