MOOC8 Estate Inventory
MOOC8/40.42 — SLOT, STELLENBOSCH, FILANDER OF THE CAPE, APRIL OF BENGAL, LEA OF MOSAMBIQUE, AFRICA OF THE CAPE, FILANDER OF THE CAPE, JULY OF THE CAPE, LEA OF THE CAPE, JANUARY, ROSINA OF THE CAPE, FLORA OF THE CAPE, KANDASA OF THE CAPE
18260121
Inventory details
- MOOC reference
- MOOC8/40.42
- Date
- 18260121
- Names
- Slot, Stellenbosch, Filander of the Cape, April of Bengal, Lea of Mosambique, Africa of the Cape, Filander of the Cape, July of the Cape, Lea of the Cape, January, Rosina of the Cape, Flora of the Cape, Kandasa of the Cape
Transcription
MOOC8/40.42
{18260121} 21 January 1826 Stephanus Sebastiaan
Walters
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death
abintestato of Stephanus Sebastiaan Walters senior on the 25:th day of the
month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
five for the benefit of his children begotten in wedlock with his late wife
Martha Laubscher, viz:
The aforesaid property having been taken under the administration of the
Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony on behalf of the aforesaid heirs and
been inventoried by the undersigned special Commissioners of the Board
aforesaid was found to consist in the following, viz:
Thus inventoried at the place aforesaid on the 21 of January 1826
according to a statement made by the aforesaid heirs who declared to have acted
herein bonafide and that to the best of their knowledge they have not withheld
or secreted any thing that belonged to the aforesaid estate, and the said
appearers further declared that they are and will at all times be ready and
willing to confirm their statement by solem 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 we the Commissioners together with the appearers and me
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents
As commissioners: G:E: Overbeek, J:A: Munnik
A:s J:s Jordaan, S:S: Walters, V:G: Maree, A:H: Prins, Jurianus M:s
Prins, J:H: Jantsen, Nicolaas Smuts
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| 1) Sophia Hendrica married to Albertus Joh:s Jourdaan |
| a) Stephanus Sebastiaan born on the [ ..... ] |
| b) Maria Johanna born on the [ ..... ] |
| c) Sibella Maria Basson born on the [ ..... ] |
| 3) Stephanus Sebastiaan aged [ ..... ] |
| 4) Margaretha Johanna married to Marth:s Gerh:s Maré |
| 5) Catharina Eliz:h married to Abraham Hend:k Prins |
| 6) Martha Eliz:h married to Jurrian Marth:s Prins |
| a) Johanna Maria born on the [ ..... ] |
| b) Martha Sebilla born on the [ ..... ] |
| c) Johan Hendrik born on the [ ..... ] |
| d) Sophia Elizabeth Janssen born on the [ ..... ] |
| 8) Helena Maria married to Nicolaas Smuts Nicol:s s |
| 9) Elizabeth Maria Walters born 10 January 1802 |
| A place named het Slot gelegen aan de Paarde Berg Stellenbosch district |
| five tables in sort |
| a wardrobe |
| two cupboards |
| a small [cupboards] |
| a couch |
| eighteen chairs |
| a writing desk |
| three bed steads |
| four strechers |
| four featherbeds |
| one pillow |
| thirteen chusions |
| three plate racks |
| a bed cover |
| a blanket |
| two racks |
| a waiter |
| a coffy pot |
| a water kettle |
| three candle sticks |
| a crued stand |
| two large floor chests |
| a small floor [chests] |
| three dozen plates |
| six dishes |
| two dozen table knives |
| two dozen forks |
| one dozen spoons |
| four small judgs |
| six cups and saucers |
| a pastel and mortar |
| a bed screen |
| a looking glass |
| four iron pots |
| two earthen pots |
| a ladle |
| a fork |
| two buckets |
| a cake pan |
| a tart pan |
| a chopper |
| a p:r of scales and beam |
| a zlate |
| a shaving bason |
| a corn harp |
| a measure |
| three corn shovels |
| a yellow wood plank |
| two tubs |
| one half aum |
| a hand mill |
| five plough shares |
| six pick axes |
| three spades |
| a beak iron |
| a leaver |
| two saws |
| two gimblet |
| two chissel |
| one adze |
| twenty four korn sacks |
| twelve seakles |
| one saddle |
| two sets of harness /:for horses:/ |
| nine yokes and two trektow |
| ten reams and 12 strops |
| one ligter |
| one lanthorn |
| three cans |
| two tar pots |
| a grind stone |
| two hides |
| a basket |
| a field crib |
| a funnel |
| a churn |
| some old iron and rubbish |
| five silver table spoons |
| three silver confit forks |
| a tin cannister |
| one gun |
| a sword and snake stone |
| fourty one muids of barley |
| two muids of rye |
| two horse waggons |
| one horse [waggons] /defective/ |
| one bulock [waggons] |
| two ploughs |
| two harrows |
Cattle
| twelve waggon horses |
| eight breeding horses |
| ten oxen |
| four cows |
Slaves
| a male slave nam:d Filander of the Cape 60 years of age, coach man |
| a male slave nam:d April of Bengal 61 years, herdsman |
| a female slave named Lea of Mosambique 50 years of age, sheepherdress |
| the aforesaid three slaves will be at liberty to chose by whom of the above mentioned heirs of the deceased they should wish to live, according to the deceasion of the Board of the 11:th instant |
| a male slave n:d Africa of the Cape 35 years of age, coachman, which slave is to be transferred to Stephanus Sebastiaan Walters for the amount of R:150 according to an agreement made on the 22:d Sep:r 1803 between the deceased and said S:s Seb:n Walters and approved of by the Board of Orphan Masters on the 11:th instant |
| a male slave n:d Filander of the Cape 23 years of age, labourer |
| a male slave n:d July of the Cape 15 years of age |
| a female slave n:d 2 Lea of the Cape 18 years with her child named January born on the 20 January 1825 |
| a female slave n:d Rosina of the Cape 18 years of age |
| a female slave n:d Flora of the Cape 14 years of age |
| a female slave n:d Kandasa of the Cape 9 years of age |
Claims in favour of the estate
| £ | ||
| paid | from Stephanus Sebastiaan Walters according to a note of hand dated 15 Aug:t 1825 R:622 or | 46:13 |