Michiel Smuts was born 12 Feb 1730, and was murdered on the evening of 14 July 1760. Susanna Margaretha (3 years) and Servaas Josias (3 months) survived, but Servaas died the following year. [1] I am quoting this from my information on Deputy Commissary James Horne who arrived in Cape Town 1815. This information was sent to the Albany Museum in 1972 by the late Harry Horne of Queenstown: "James Horne's eldest son Harry Remington Horne born 1802 died 1886 married at the Cape about 1830, Susan Margaret Blake, born 1813 died 1897. She was the daughter of Captain Blake of the 24th Regiment whose mother {Susanna Margaretha (Buissine) Blake (abt. 1793 - abt. 1837)} had been a daughter of Major William Buisininne. William had married Susanna Margareta Smuts born 1757, who as a baby of 3 years old was hidden in an oven by her slave nurse when her brothers and parents were killed by slaves on the 15 July 1760. Her father was Michael Smuts born 1726 whose father was also Michael Smuts born 1702 and died 1792. The murdered Michiel Smuts had a brother from whom the late field Marshall Smuts descended" The above story, Harry writes was published in the Cape Argus of Sat. 31 March 1923 and also in the Queenstown Representative Thursday 29 June 1967.[1][2]
27 July 1760 [3]: "Commando in skirmish with a gang of runaway slaves following the gruesome murder (14 July 1760) of Cape-born VOC boekhouer Michiel Smuts (1730-1760), his wife Cape-born Susanna de Kock & their baby son Michiel Smuts at the place later known as "Rheezicht" [provincial monument in present-day Oranjezicht, Cape Town] – the gang was led by Achilles (a slave belonging to Smuts) ... the 3-year-old daughter Susanna Margaretha Smuts & 3-month old baby Servaas Smuts survive the attack ..."
killed or mortally wounded:
Fortuyn van Bugis &
Baatjoe van Bugis
12 captured & later executed:
Alexander van Bugis
September van Bugis
January van Bugis
July
Upas van Bugis
Achilles
Jacob van Madagascar
January van Macassar
Mandhaar van Macassar
Alexander van de Westcust
1 slave flogged & branded & 10 years in chains: Cupido van Bengalen &
1 slave granted freedom & owner re-imbursed for collaborating: Boone van Bugis (slaaf van den Duijkelaar Paulus Beek) [3]
↑ Source: "Die Smuts-familie van die Swartland: Author P. J. Smuts (CS1599 .S68 1992) Boland Drukers - History Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier April 25, 2015.
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