Land Documents Signed by President Brand (1877)

Door Zijn Hooc-Edelen Den Staatspresident van den Oranjevrijstaat in Zuid-Afrika in naam en ten behoeve van het Gouvernment van den Gemelden Staat, Land Documents with seals and signatures. SIGNED AND DATED BY PRESIDENT BRAND.,originals, double-sided signed text document is 21 cms x 32 cms, land plan document is 51 cms x 35 cms, usual creases and tears for documents of this age, overall condition: good.

                                Documents concern land parcel at Van Aswegens Hoek , Houtpans Drift, Boshof district,

    Johannes Henricus Brand,  was a South African lawyer and politician, and the fourth state president of the OFS, (1864-1888).

He was elected president of the OFS in 1863, and subsequently re-elected for five year terms in 1869, 1874, 1879 and 1884.  Brand was deeply religious and was extremely popular with the burghers of the OFS. His expression "alles zal recht komen als elkeen zijn plicht doet" (all will be well if everyone does his duty) has entered the Afrikaans language as a well-known and often used saying.

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