• THE CHRONICLE OF JEREMIAH GOLDSWAIN, 1820 settler

THE CHRONICLE OF JEREMIAH GOLDSWAIN, 1820 settler

: Goldswain (R.) ed.

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328pp., illus., map. paperback, Durban, 2014

 

A new edition of the memoirs of Jeremiah Goldswain (1802-1871). His journals were written phonetically in his Midlands-English dialect and have been newly transcribed by his great-great-grandson Ralph Goldswain. Van Riebeeck Society originally published volume 1 of these memoirs in 1946 and volume 2 in 1949.

At the age of 17 he sailed to the Cape of Good Hope on board the “Zoroaster”, arriving in Simon’s Bay in April 1820. He settled in the Albany district, worked by turns as a trader, farmer, commissary and militiaman, and was involved in three of the nine Frontier Wars between 1779 and 1897. After the 1851-52 war he moved to Grahamstown, where he died.