Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius

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Goshen

  Dec 1882                Het Land Goosen independent

  Mar 1885                incorporated into Cape Colony (Bechuanaland)

Chairman of the Council of Government

  Dec 1882 -    Aug 1884  Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius  (b. 1837 - d. 1893) Administrator

  Aug 1884 -    Mar 1885  Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius  (s.a.)

Goosen and Stellaland republics In 1882 a group of Boers established the short-lived republics of Stellaland and Het Land Goosen (aka Goshen ) to the north of Griqualand West, in contravention of the Pretoria and London conventions by which the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek had regained its independence.

On the 1st April the republic of Het Land Goosen was declared. The terms of the Pretoria Convention of August 1881 had cut away part of the Transvaal. This led to problems as local Chiefs disputed the boundaries. Britain did not help matters by acknowledging Mankoroane as Chief of the Batlapin and Montsioa as Chief of the Barolong, both beyond their traditional territories. Supporters of Moshete, under the leadership of Nicolaas Claudius GEY VAN PITTIUS (1837 – 1893), established Het Land Goosen. One of the co-founders was Hermanus Richard (Manie) LEMMER, who later became a General in the Anglo-Boer War. Het Land Goosen later merged with the Stellaland republic to form the United States of Stellaland.

Stellaland was also a short-lived republic established in 1882 by David MASSOUW and about 400 followers, who invaded a Bechuana area west of the Transvaal. They founded the town of Vryburg, making it their capital. The republic was formally created on the 26th July 1882, under the leadership of Gerrit Jacobus VAN NIEKERK (1849 – 1896). In 1885 the British sent in troops under Sir Charles WARREN, abolished the republic, and incorporated it in British Bechuanaland.

Sources: http://ancestry24.com/genealogy_ancestry-1882/ http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goshen

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