Gen. Jacob Glen Cuyler ²

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Jane Elizabeth Cuyler+

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• General Comment. ² General Jacob Cuyler came with the British Naval contingent to take over the Cape in 1806 as a Captain. He was Captain in a Hussar Regiment, which was on its way to India when they took part in the final taking of the Cape.

Later he became Provisional Landdrost at Uitenhage. As Landdrost he was responsible for placing the 1820 settlers. He was also the officer who had to supervise the execution of the Slagter's Nek rebels. His name has been very much reviled because at the execution the ropes of 4 of the rebels broke. The men and spectators begged for pardon but it was not in his power to grant it and the execution continued. He did, however, recommend a pardon for 3 of the men whose cases were not fully decided.

Both his sons had predeceased him and he was anxious that his name should be kept in South Africa. He willed that when his grandson Jacob Glen Armstrong came of age he was to take the name Cuyler, and at his mother's death inherit Cuyler Manor and all the family heirlooms. Later Cuyler manor was owned by Cradock Andre Cuyler, the youngest of his sons.

An extract from: Thus Came the English by Dorothy Rivett-Carnac
Jacob Glen Cuyler
1811 - The Landdrost of Uitenhage was Major Jacob Glen Cuyler, a British Officer of Netherlands extraction who had seen service in the American colonies and whose father was a Mayor of the town Albany in the State of New York. Both (referring to someone else as well) entrusted with the organising and direction of the commandos, which were disposed to the right and left of the main force of regular troops.
1814 - On the 17th of January 1814, the land South of the Fish River, previously known as the Zuurveld and constituting a portion of the district of Uitenhage, was proclaimed the district of Albany in deference to Col. Cuyler's association with the town of Albany in New York.

Jacob married.

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