Aberdeen is a small town in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

On 16 October, the Presbytery of Graaff-Reinet, the so-called third precinct (after Cape Town and Swellendam), formally separated the congregation during a session at Cradock.

The farm, owned by Jan Vorster, was purchased for £4,875, and on October 16, 1855, the Presbytery signed the congregation's establishment.

Lots were surveyed and sold, while the church council retained control over the town land and the right to levy the inheritance tax.

On 21 January 1856 a man named Swarts was appointed as the first reader, sexton and schoolmaster of the town at a salary of £50 per year.