Cory Library and Historical Archives

Land Grants

Item

“Land Grants”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/12216

Title

Land Grants

Description

A collection of Land Grants (both Freehold and Perpetual Quitrent) and transfers/title deeds for the Stutterheim/King William's Town area. Although these are predominantly in the names of German immigrants and British German Legion settlers, there are also some grants in Freehold for Xhosa people, as well as grants in Perpetual Quitrent for men at the mission stations of Bethel, Umgwali and Wartburg. Most of the documents are accompanied by diagrams of the land in question.

Subject

Deeds

Conveyancing

Land titles

Registration and transfer

Quitrent

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019927

Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator

MS 20 010

Item sets

King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Cory Finding Aids & Selected Inventories

Media

vital_13949+SOURCEPDF+SOURCEPDF.0.pdf

Hierarchies

The Frontier Collection

• The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
• The Frontier Wars (92 items)
• The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
  • Alice (40 items)
  • Bathurst (16 items)
  • Bedford (3 items)
  • Cathcart (5 items)
  • Cradock (200 items)
  • East London (22 items)
  • Grahamstown (91 items)
  • King William's Town (32 items)
  • Port Alfred (19 items)
  • Port Elizabeth (34 items)
  • Queenstown (6 items)

“Land Grants”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/12216