MOOC8/39.33 - ADAM NAPIER, CAPE TOWN

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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Adam Napier, Cape Town

MOOC Reference: MOOC8/39.33
Date: 18250418
Names: Adam Napier, Cape Town
MOOC8/39.33 {18250418} 18 April 1825 Adam Napier Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death of Adam Napier Esq:re surgeon in the honourable East India Company Service, of the Bengal Residency which happened on the sixteenth day of the present month of April, at the house of Mr Carel Beständig N:o 22 Gravestreet , Cape Town the deceased who arrived in this Colony on the [ ..... ] as passenger on board of thecaptain [ ..... ] having his last will and testament executed on the 14:t February 1824 under his seal and signature, in the presence of three witnesses disposed of his property in favor of 0and in case of their death without issue in favour of his mother Helen Napier or in case of her predecease, of the children of his brother Alexander Napier. But since the deceased in his aforesaid will and testament has not appointed any executors or administrators in as far as the property relinquished here is concerned, the Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony have entered upon the administration of this property ex officio on behalf of his heirs abroad, and the said property having in consequence been inventoried by the undersigned Commissioners of the aforesaid Board and was found to consist in the following viz:t In the house of the said Mr C: Beständig Thus inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope in the house aforesaid on the eightteenth day of the month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, according to a statement made by the said Mr Carel Beständig who declared to have acted herein bonafide and that to the best of his knowledge has not withheld or secreted any thing belonging to the aforesaid estate and the said appearer further declared that he is and will at all times be ready and willing to confirm his statement by solemn oath if required promising at the same time that if after the date of these presents any property of this estate might be discovered shall faithfully communicate it to the Orphan Chamber in order to amplify this inventory with the property so discovered. In witness whereof the Commissioners together with the appearer and the Secretary have subscribed to these presents. As Commissioners: G:E: Overbeek C:l Beständig In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts

his son in law James Francis Wilson and
his daughter Helen Napier and their issue
a sopha bedsteadt with curtains
one mattrass
two bed covers
one bolster
one easy chair
one spy glass
a silver hunting watch with gold seal
a tin box with some medicines
three packs of hair powder
two tin boxes with a remainder of sago and sugar
a writing box
some writing paper
a writing box
a portefuille
three rasors, two straps
one brass pencel case
one scale
one pocket book with surgeons instruments
one clister pipe
two pair of spurs
one hammer
some brass work
one pair of boot hooks
an apoticary scale
two brushes
one slate
one comb
six pair of shoes
forty nine books
a tin box
a large chest
a large chest, containing
twenty one shirts
two dressing gowns
nine bed sheets
forty seven hand towls
one hat
thirty two pair of trousers
twenty pillow cases
thirty four waistcoats
eighteen white jackets
one uniform coat and epolet
one uniform jacket
one uniform waistcoat
one great gray coat
one pair of gray trousers
one cambelet jacket
one cambelet waistcoat
one cambelet pair of trousers
two velvet waistcoats
nineteen pair of stockings
five pair of socks
three pair of gloves
seven flannel waistcoats
one flannel belt
three pair of flannel drawers
twenty two pocket handkerchiefs
four silk handkerchiefs
one pair of crape trousers
thirty nine neck cloths
one pair of brases
nine night caps
one basket
one gig
one gig horse
one set of gig harnass
one pair of crutches
Claims in favour of the estate
  Rd:s
received in Junefrom the Discount Bank the balance of his account814:42
Claims against the estate
  Rd:s
to the Sexton Mr P:J: Keeve for funeral expences372:24
to said Mr C:l Beständig for board and lodging523:24

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