Resolution of the Council of Policy, 13 February 1770: the Swartberg taken as the dividing wall, places on its south side to Swellendam and the Camdebo inhabitants to Stellenbosch
Council of Policy resolution · consulted 2026-08-12
- Type
- Council of Policy resolution
- Repository
- Nationaal Archief, Den Haag / Western Cape Archives, Council of Policy (C series); TANAP transcription, CC0, published by the National Archives of the Netherlands and Leiden University; read through eGGSA's VOC Archive web application
- Reference
- C148, pp. 43-83, entry C148.p0043-0083, dated 1770-02-13
- Consulted
- 2026-08-12
The citation as it was given
The 1770 limit that SRC-423 refers back to in 1775 - 'in 't voorm: Jaar 1770: bij de geciteerde bepaaling der voorn: Limietscheijding, den Swartenberg als tot de Scheijdsmuur genoomen'. Verbatim here: 'de aan de ZUIJD ZIJDE van voorsz: berg geleegene plaatsen onder SWELLENDAM Sullen behooren. Dat ook... de in het zogen:de CAMDEBO wonende Ingeseetenen, voortaan insgelijx onder de Jurisdictie des Landdrosts van STELLENBOSCH Sullen[de]'. THE SWARTBERG WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY BEFORE IT WAS ANYTHING ELSE TO THIS PROJECT, and 1770 is where that starts. With SRC-423 (1775, the limits pushed to the Fish and Bosjesmans Rivers) and SRC-428 (1786, Graaff-Reinet defined by the Gamka and the mountain's north-eastern side), it completes the frame this district sat inside before the 1841 grants.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
Nothing in the model cites this source yet.