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Philip and Charity presumably settled well into their new wattle and daub cottage, as nine months later, on 13 March 1821, my 2 x great grandfather William Hobbs was born. Next came Charity, born on 7 December 1823, and Mary Ann, born on 5 December 1825. All three of these children were baptised together on 4 December 1826 in Grahamstown, as at the time there was no chapel in Bathurst. It must have taken them virtually all day to get there, no joke with three young children, and was doubtless a journey that was planned and talked about a great deal in advance. Life was hard during the early years for the settlers, as after the first two years the government stopped issuing rations. By 1823 only 438 out of about 2,000 adult male settlers were left on the land assigned to them, the rest having sold up and gone to find work in the rapidly growing Grahamstown. Also in 1823 a drought was followed by torrential rain and floods, and the crops were ruined. Philip and Charity must have known the meaning of the word hunger, but they survived. The farmers who remained were granted more land, and could look forward to some sort of future. Things were still not easy; the crops were destroyed by locusts in 1825 and their lands were constantly being raided by native Xhosa, but the situation was never quite as bad again as it was in 1823.
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