Michiel Smuts (bef. 1730 - 1760)

Born before 12 Feb 1730 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony [South Africa] [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (de Kok) Smuts — married 3 Sep 1752 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony [South Africa]

Descendants

Died 14 Jun 1760 after age 30 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony, [South Africa]

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Biography

Events

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]

Will

Reference no.: MOOC8/10.9

Testator(s):

Susanna de Cock

Michiel Smuts

15 Julij 1760

Swellengrebel

Inventaris van alle soodaanige goederen als metter dood zijn ontruijmt en naargelaaten door den in de gepasseerde nagt ongeluckig om ’t leevengebragte boekhouder Michiel Smuts d’ jonge en desselfs huijsvrouw Susanna de Cock ten voordeele van hunlieder bij den anderen in den huwelijk verwekte in leeven overgebleevene kinderen, met naamen

1) Susanna Margaretha Smuts oud 3 jaaren

2) Servaas Josias Smuts oud 5 maand:

Geformeert ende in geschrifte gestelt door de onderget:e gecomm:e Weesm:ren ter opgaave en aanwijsinge van den oudburgercommissaris Michiel Smuts d’ oude als vader van wijl: den bovengem:e Michiel de jonge, mitsg:rs den burger Michiel de Cock als eijgen broeder van wijlen voorz:e Susanna de Cock, bestaande in ’t volgende, namentlijk ^[4]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Smuts-109 created through the import of dekock1.ged on Jul 24, 2013 by Niel De Kock.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Rootsweb: South Africa (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2000-06/0960059811) Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier April 25, 2015.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Source: [Mansell Upham] First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Jul 27, 2017 at 5:29 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Jul 27, 2017.
4. ↑ http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/make_pdf.cfm?output=pdf&id=MOOC8/10.9 Seen and added by Gordon Mac Rae 23 Mar 2017.