Pieter was die seun van Gysbert van der Westhuizen en Catharina Wilhelmina van Schalkwyk.
Pieter
Baptised: 1771, 25 Dec: 1771
Father: Gijsbert VAN DER
WESTHUISEN
Mother: Catharina Helena VAN
SCHALKWIJK
Witnesses: Hendrik van der
Westhuijsen en Helena
Additional notes: Geboren
den 26 November
Johannes Augustinus Bark * c. 1729 arriveer in 1753 as soldaat vanaf Sondershausen, Thuringe in Duitsland, word burger in 1781, kleremaker in Paarl; † Paarl 10.7.1804 x Paarl 8.7.1764 Geertruida Elizabeth VAN STRAATEN.
In 1808 vind
daar ‘n Slawe-opstand in die Koeberg, Tijgerberg en Swartland distrikte van die
Kaap plaas.
"The slaves,
too, acted with considerable moderation. Except for those lost to the processes
of justice, later, the rebellion cost no lives. There were few atrocities
for the prosecutor to make play of later in court. The major exception was the
raping of Jacobs Christina Baard, the wife of Pieter van der Westhuisen,
by Cupido van Java, who put the muzzle of his gun to her chest and forced her
to go with him into one of the outhouses of her farm." (Cape of
Torments slavery and resistance in South Africa by Robert Ross (1983) Routledge
& Kegan Paul, London. P. 102.)
