Ebenezer Biggs

Ebenezer Biggs came to South Africa after James. He also landed at Algoa Bay where his brother was to meet him. The boat arrived much sooner than James expected, so was not at the Bay. As it was dangerous to travel alone on horse back, he accompanied a fleet of transport wagons that were going to meet the boats. The dangers were wolves, and other wild animals and Kaffirs. ( sorry, not pc but I copied this out )

Ebenezer found a seat on a fleet of wagons on their way to Grahamstown. James wrote home to his parents and said, they prepared to rest for the night on their way to the Bay by forming a laager with the wagons and driving the cattle inside the laager for safety, When they heard a fleet of wagons coming from the Bay they guessed the boat was in. Hence the return of the wagons. He went and inquired after his brother and found him on one of the wagons.

Theres another letter or two from their parents which I will have to decipher at a later stage.

Ebenezer Biggs and Mary Ann Hobson went to "Wellfound" in the district of Jansenville. "Wellfound" is still in the Biggs family. Mary Ann Hobson, like James Biggs wife Elizabeth Wheeldon were of 1820 settler stock.