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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Calcutta, Africa, Castle Street, Wynberg, Athol, Canton, Calcutta, Calcutta, Calcutta
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/40.17
MOOC8/40.17
{18250718} 18 July 1825 Richard Chicheley
Plowden
Inventory of the property of Richard Chicheley Plowden Esquire in the
Honorable East India Company’s civil service husband of Missis Sophia Fleming
with whom he has in lawful marriage procreated the following children,
viz:t
The said property having been relinquished by him the deceased ab
intestato on the fourteenth day of the month of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, for the benefit of his heirs at
law, and taken under the administration of the Board of Orphan Masters of this
colony in behalf of the said heirs, and been inventoried (after the seals of
the office has been removed) by the undersigned special Commissioners of the
Board aforesaid, was found to consist in the following, viz:t
The greatest part of said three bills appears to be drawn for
Thus done and inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope on the eightteenth day
of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
according to a statement made by Mr John Bagshaw who declared to have acted
herein bonafide and that to the best of his knowledge he has not withheld or
secreted ant thing belonged to the aforesaid estate, and the 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 discoverd shall
faithfully communicate it to the Orphan Chamber in order to amplify this
inventory with the property so discovered
In witness whereof we the Commissioners together with the appearer and the
Secretary have subscribed to these presents
As Commissioners: G:E: Overbeek, A: Kuys
John Bagshaw
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
Ampliation
The undersigned do acknowledge by these presents to have received from the
Orphan Chamber the abovementioned fourteen gold moors and sixteen gold half
moors
Cape of Good Hope this 18:th July 1825
Sophia Plowden
R: n: 2534
Duplicate
1:st Sv Jameisine, 2:nd Sv D:ss of Athol
R:C: Plowden Esq: care of Messr: Tho:s Dent and C:o Canton
Calcutta , 2:nd July 1824
Dear sir,
Accompanying we have the pleasure to forward your Account Current for the
past year, exhibiting a balance in your favour on the 30th April of Sicca
Rupees 1,01,890 we hope that the Account will be found correct and
satisfactory; and that you will be pleased to sign and return the subjoined
acknowledgment of its being so, or if you prefer it, we shall consider our not
hearing from you to the contrary in due course, as an admission of the
correctness of the Account.
We are, dear sir,
Your faithful servants,
Palmer and C:o
E:E: Calcutta 30:th April 1824
Duplicate
Palmer and Co:
E:E: Calcutta 30:th April 1824.
Gentlemen,
I have received your letter of the [ ..... ] covering my Account Current
of 30th April [ ..... ] shewing a balance of Sicca Rupees [ ..... ] in [ .....
] and which I hereby confirm as correct and satifactory.
I am, gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant, [ ..... ]
To messrs. Palmer and Co.
| 1) Richard Chicheley Plowden 20 years of age |
| 2) Augustus Udney Chicheley Plowden 19 years of age |
| 3) Henry Gordon Chicheley Plowden 13 years of age |
| 4) Arthur Wellington Chicheley Plowden 10 years of age |
| 5) Edmund Chicheley Plowden 7 years of age |
| 6) Louisa Chicheley Anna Plowden 9 years of age |
| 7) Alfred Chicheley Plowden 5 years of age |
| 8) Adelaide Chicheley Anna Plowden 3 years of age |
| a writing desk containing | |
| a note of hand dated Calcutta 12:th April 1824 against Dwarknauth Tagora to the amount of fifty thousand sicca ropees | Sicca Ropees 50000 |
| with the interest thereon at 8 percent per annum | |
| a note of hand dated 29:th March 1824 against the aforesaid Dwarknauth Tagore amounting to eleven thousand sicca ropees | S:c R: 11000 |
| with the interest thereon at 8 p:cto per annum | |
| a note of hand dated 21:st February last, amounting to six thousand fifty five rixdollars against the late J:H: de Wit | Rd:s6055 |
| a note of hand against the said M:r J:H: de Wit amounting to four thousand rixd:s | Rd:s4000 |
| a note of hand against the said M:r J:H: de Wit amounting to two thousand rixdollars | Rd:s2000 |
| a sofa |
| a table |
| a tea box |
| a painting box |
| a dubble barrel gun and case |
| a sea couch |
| a small tool chest |
| a patent boot jack |
| a set of teeth instruments |
| a razor strap |
| a Hernutters knife |
| a tinder box |
| some China pencils |
| a small painting box |
| a hunting whip |
| a buggy whip |
| a China washhand stand |
| three hats |
| a wash hand bason and ewer |
| a pair of spurs |
| four pair of boots |
| a pair of decanters |
| a letter box with some medicines |
| a gorgelet |
| seventeen volumes of books |
| a map of Africa |
| a chest of drawers |
| a knife |
| nine packs of cards |
| one bedstead |
| one mattrass |
| one glass desert service consisting in |
| eight dishes |
| eleven plates |
| one center piece and stand |
| two sweet meat pots |
| two jugs - kept by the widow |
| ten liqour glasses |
| two China baskets |
| one pickle case |
| fourteen flower pots |
| two water monkeys |
| one large case containing tea |
| two boxes with sweet meats |
| a lamp |
| ten chairs |
| two dining tables |
| three lamps |
| a silver tea pot and stand |
| a silver toast rack |
| a silver toasting fork |
| two silver muffeneers |
| one silver butter knife |
| one silver fish knife |
| one silver sugar ladle |
| one silver soup ladle |
| one silver gravy spoon |
| one silver dozen table spoons |
| one silver dozen desert spoons |
| four silver tea spoons |
| six silver egg spoons |
| twelve silver desert forks |
| twelve silver table forks |
| one plated snuffer and stand |
| one dinner table service (guilded) with cups and saucers |
| nine knives and forks |
| seven desert forks |
| nine desert knives |
| one carving knife and fork |
| one steal |
| four table lamps |
| six dish covers |
| a blue table service defective |
| a quantity of wine glasses and tumblers |
| six decanters |
| a plated cruet stand |
| a sofa belonging to the surviving widow |
| one small table |
| one large mat kept by the surviving widow for her own use |
| one shower bath |
| a box with earthen toys |
| a plated soup turreen |
| six plated dishes with covers |
| two plated dubble decanter stands |
| four plated candlesticks with shades, three given over to the surviving widow |
| four plated candlesticks with shades, smaller |
| one traveling kettle |
| one tea kettle |
| seven sauce pans |
| a fish kettle |
| one collander |
| two pudding forms |
| one drudging box |
| one rasp |
| one frying pan |
| one grid iron |
| one pair of tongs |
| one fireshovel |
| some empty bottles |
| six finger glasses |
| a quantity of wine for the use of the surviving widow |
| a hand basket |
| a meatsafe |
| six empty boxes |
| three empty tubs |
| two riding horses |
| two saddles and bridles |
| one horse cloth |
| one girth |
| two herd stalls |
| two black carriage horses |
| one brown buggy [horses] |
| one chariot with harness |
| one buggy with harness |
| a race horse Snake |
| the untried colt Beaufort |
| seven empty cases |
| a quantity of firewood and coals |
| fourteen gold moors |
| sixteen gold half moors |
R:C: Plowden Esq: in account with Mess:rs Palmer and Co:
| D:r | C:r | ||||||||
| 1823 | 1,823 | ||||||||
| May | 10 | to cash p:d Kissemohun Sing’s bill for sundry charges on 7 half chests of madeira shipped p:rand 1 pipe of madeira per | 16:8:-- | May | 1 | by balance of account closed yesterday | 1,22,736:--:-- | ||
| 14 | to cash p:d boat hire for 2 tents to Hidglie | 22:12:-- | 15 | by cash rec:d from Stewart en Robertson, secretaries to the Calcutta Insurance Comp:y the last half years interest due 31:st March last on your deposit paper amt:g to S:a R:s4,000 at 6 p:cent | 120:--:-- | ||||
| June | 3 | to cash p:d Mendeita Uriarte and Co: the am:t prem: on your deposit paper in the Globe Ins:ce Office transf:d from the 6 into the the 5 p:ct loan as p:r statement | 90:14:-- | July | 7 | by cash rec:d from the Bank of Bengal the last half years divd:s in 2 shares n:os 208 and 217 at 500 each | 1,000:--:-- | ||
| 7 | to cash p:d Stewart and Robertson p:r receipt the am:t prem: on your deposit paper in the Cal:a Ins:ce Comp:y transferred from the 6 into the 5 p:cent loan | 196:8:-- | 9 | by cash rec:d draw back on 1 pipe of madeira p:rvalued at S:a R:s 567 a 3/4 pf 10 p:cent | 42:8:9 | ||||
| 9 | to cash p:d Cruttenden and Co: the am:t prem: on your deposit paper in the Ganges Ins:ce Office transf:d into the 5 p:cent loan | 240:15:-- | 19 | by cash rec:d from Mendeita Uriarte and Co: the last half years inst:t on your deposit paper in the Globe Ins:ce Office amount:g to S:a r:s2,000 | 60:--:-- | ||||
| 25 | to cash p:d Prawn Kissen Holdars bill for house rent from Feb:y to May 1823 | 1,183:--:-- | 24 | by cash rec:d from you p:r receipt | 6,500:--:-- | ||||
| July | 19 | to cash p:d fees for exchanging a 6 p:cent Gov:t note | 1:--:-- | Octo:r | 2 | by cash rec:d from you p:r receipt | 15,000:--:-- | ||
| 24 | to am:t cost of 1 subalterns tent | 310:--:-- | 17 | by cash rec:d from you p:r receipt | 6,000:--:-- | ||||
| to am:t cost of 1 baggage tent | 100:--:-- | 410:--:-- | 25 | by cash rec:d from Mendeita Uriarte and Co: the last half years int:t on your deposit paper in the Globe Ins:ce Office for S:aR:s2,000 | 50:--:-- | ||||
| 25 | to cash p:d import duty on 2 boxes of tea p:r | 18:--:-- | Nov:r | 24 | by cash rec:d from you p:r receipt | 5,500:--:-- | |||
| to cash p:d import duty on 1 [boxes] soda water p:r | 1:4:-- | 19:4:-- | Dec:r | 2 | by cash rec:d Stewart and Robertson p:r receipt the am:t of a devid:d on 2 shares held by you in the Calcutta Insurance Comp:y | 1,000:-- | |||
| Aug:t | 7 | to cash p:d you p:r rec:t of this date | 100:--:-- | 1824 | |||||
| 20 | to am:t of a sett: of our bills on Paxton and Co: n:o 247 payable to themselves £600 at 6 m/d a 1/11 1/2 | 6,127:10:6 | Jan:y | 2 | by cash rec:d from R: Saunders sec:y to the Board of Customs per receipt being the balance of commission due to you as late agent of the 24:th Pergunnahs on the salt of the year 1823 | 7,377:14:6 | |||
| Sept:r | 6 | to cash p:d landing charges on 1 case soda water p:r | 0:8:-- | 2 | by cash rec:d from you p:r receipt | 8,200:--:-- | 15,577:14:6 | ||
| 16 | to cash p:d Kissen Mohun’s bill charges on a box of curry stuff shipped p:r | 2:1:-- | 8 | by cash rec:d from the Bank of Bengal the last half years divid:d on 2 shares | 250:12:6 | ||||
| 23 | to cash p:d your d:ft of this date to bearer | 100:--:-- | 12 | by cash rec:d from Geo: Angus p:r rec:t | 6,000:--:-- | ||||
| Octo:r | 2 | to cash p:d your d:ft of 1:t inst: to Mess:rs Taylor and Co: | 15,000:--:-- | 19 | by cash rec:d from the Globe Ins:ce Office the last half years interest on your Gov:t paper for S:aR:s2000 | 60:--:-- | |||
| to cash p:d your d:ft of 30:e ult:o to Mr P: Foster | 649:4:11 | 15,649:4:11 | April | 19 | by cash rec:d from Stewart and Robertson p:r receipt being the last half years interest on your deposit paper in the Calcutta Insurance Company | 100:--:-- | |||
| 6 | to cash p:d your d:ft of 3:d inst:t to Mr P: Foster | 717:--:-- | 21 | by cash rec:d from the Ganges Ins:ce Office the last half years interest on your deposit paper | 125:--:-- | ||||
| 21 | to cash p:d your d:ft of this date to Bhyrub Churn Sircar | 1,500:-- | 22 | by cash rec:d from the Globe Ins:ce Office the last half years interest on your deposit paper | 50:--:-- | ||||
| 27 | to cash p:d export duty on 1 box of curry stuff p:r | 0:5:-- | 30 | by a years interest on the old balance at 6 p:cent and balance of interest on the remainder of the account at 4 p:c:t | 7,685:4:8 | ||||
| 28 | to cash p:d import duty on sundry parcels of books p:r various ships | 5:11:-- | Sicca Rupees1,88,457:8:5 | ||||||
| 31 | to cash p:d petty charges from May to October | 4:8:6 | |||||||
| Nov:r | 5 | to cash p:d for 2 tickets n:os 5204 and 5209 in the 30:t lottery | 250:--:-- | ||||||
| Dec:r | 26 | to am:t transferred cost of pictures as your letter of 24:t inst:t | 1,000:--:-- | ||||||
| 1824 | |||||||||
| Jan:y | 10 | to am:t of a set of our bills on Mess:rs Paxton and Co: n:o 542 payable to themselves £600 at 12 m/d at 1/ 10 1/2 | 6,400:-- | ||||||
| 23 | to cash p:d import duty on 3 half chests of claret and 2 half chests of sherry p:rvalued at S:d R:s820:12:9 a 10 p:cent | 82:4:-- | |||||||
| March | 8 | to cash p:d import duty on sundry China goods p: ship | 48:2:-- | ||||||
| 9 | to amt of W:H:C: Plowden’s bill on you in your favor dated 29:th November | 267:12:9 | |||||||
| 25 | to cash p:d landing charges on 5 half chests of wine p:r | 5:--:-- | |||||||
| 29 | to cash p:d your d:ft n:o 4 of 23:d ult:o to Colum and Co: | 525:--:-- | |||||||
| 31 | to cash p:d your d:ft n:o 5 of 25 inst:t to Mr P: Foster | 656:--:-- | |||||||
| April | 24 | to cash p:d your d:ft n:o 6 of 12 inst:t to Dwarkanauth Tagore | 50,000:--:-- | ||||||
| 30 | to Godown rent on claret and sherry | 0:14:8 | |||||||
| 30 | to cash p:d petty charges from Nov:r to April | 5:14:6 | |||||||
| 30 | to commission on the am:t of the above sums S:a R:s85628:13:10 at 1 p:cent | ||||||||
| 30 | to postages | 82:6:-- | |||||||
| 30 | to balance due to you | 1,01,890:--:-- | |||||||
| Sicca Rupees 1,88,457:8:5 | Sicca Rupees 188457:8:5 |