[2][1] Pury and Chaillet had eight children: Charles, François-Louis, Marie-Marguerite, Rose, Lucrèce, Jean-Henri, David, and Marie.
Pury exported wine from Neuchâtel to Holland and England, but the venture did not provide enough income for his family.
[2] Left destitute, the Court of Justice of Neuchâtel appointed the bourgeois Martinet as curator over Pury's property and affairs.
He had been made a Corporal for Dutch East India Company and helped lead the Huguenot congregation in Batavia.
In 1718, he published Mémoire sur le Pays des Cafres and la Terre de Nuyts, where he defended a concept of twelve climates between the North Pole and South Pole and that the fifth climate, located at approximately 33 ° latitude, was the best for colonization due to fertile soil.
[2] He presented the concepts to Christophel von Swol, the Governor of Batavia, with the hopes of being granted permission to start his own colonies in Australia or Southern Africa, but was dismissed.
The Crown granted Pury permission to establish a settlement with six-hundred Swiss Protestant emigrants over a six-year period.
[5][2] In 1732, the first convoy of settlers arrived, Swiss-French Huguenots, Swiss-German Lutherans, and Austrian and Italian Protestant refugees.