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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Adam Gabriel de Smidt, Table Valley, Hottentots Square, Table Valley, Longmarket Street
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/43.12
MOOC8/43.12
{18280721} 21 July 1828 Adam Gabriel de Smidt
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death of
Adam Gabriel de Smidt on the eighteenth day of the month of June in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight for the benefit of his
surviving widow Helena Elizabeth Stadler on the one
The testators having by a codicil dated 29 March 1828 and annexed to their
last will and testament executed on the 11th June 1824 before the notary public
Willem Adriaan Wentzel and certain witnesses requested and appointed the Board
of Orphan Masters to be and to act as executors and guardians over the minor
heirs, in consequence where of the undersigned commissioned Members of the
Orphan Board have taken the joint estate under proper inventory and found the
same to consists in the following, viz:
Thus inventoried in Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, on the 21 day of July
1828 according to a statement made by the widow who declared to have acted
herein bonafide and that to the best of her knowledge she has not withheld or
secreted any thing that belonged to the aforesaid estate, and the said appearer
further declared that she is and will at all times be ready and willing to
confirm her statement by solemn oath if aquired, 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 appearer and me
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents
As Commissioners: J:s Brand, J: Blanckenberg
H:E: Stadler, de weduwe A:G: de Smidt
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| 1) Wilhelmina Elizabeth born on the 12 May 1825 |
| 2) Sara Maria de Smith born 31 Octob:r 1826 |
| as also the child of which the widow herself declared to be pregnant of |
| A house and premises situated in this Table Valley to the NW side of Hottentots Square |
| An erff with five hire houses erected the river situated in this Table Valley in Longmarket Street annex the abovementioned house |
In the front room
| two tables |
| a green table cloth |
| twelve chairs |
In a back room
| two pictures |
| one table |
| thirteen chairs |
| six cushions |
In the hall
| one curtain |
| a small chair |
| a gold watch |
| a bench |
| nine candle sticks |
| a liquer stand |
| a coffy pot |
| three decanters |
| twenty four tumblers |
| twelve wineglasses |
| a tea set /guilt boarded/ |
| a few cups a sausers |
| three p:r of snuffers and stands |
| two tea cadies |
| a black earthen tea set |
| five plated tea spoons |
| a bread basket |
| two small waiters |
| a brass cock |
| a small lanthorn |
| a lot of crockery ware |
| some empty bottels and flasks |
| two tea trays |
| two empty jars |
| twenty four books |
| a book shelf |
Up stairs
| a bedstead with curtains |
| a child’s bedstead |
| a looking glass |
| six chairs |
| two clothes horses |
| a small press |
| a small chest of drawers |
| six pictures |
| two wash hand stands |
| a writing desk |
In the kitchen
| a table |
| four iron pots |
| a water kettle |
| a grater, scummer, fork and ladle |
| a cake pan |
| two tripots |
In a store
| a ladder |
| a few bricks and lime |
| a lot of iron work |
| some rubbish |
Slaves
| transcribed on the name of the widow | a female slave named Clair of this Colony about 13 years of age |
Cash
| Rd:s | |
| one hundred two rixd:s and six skellings say | 102:36 |
| one hundred nineteen pains and nineteen shill: sterling in the discount bank this date |
Credit of the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| from David Jacobs according to a note of hand dated 3:rd May 1828 | 31:42 | |
| from J:W: Michau according to a butchers bill dated 19 April 1828 - deferred to M:r W: de Smidt vide sched: 17 Sep: 1828 | 150:-- | |
| from C: Schreen house rent at rd:s22 per month from the 1st instant | 23:-- | |
| from J: Schalkwyk house rent at rd:s20 and 18 stevers | 20:18 | |
| from Sophie Lindenbaum house rent at rd:s20 and 18 stevers | 20:18 | |
| from the widow J: Reinhard rd:s21 house rent | 21:-- | |
| from Jos: Eckart house rent from 1st May last at the rate rd:s26:10 per month | 79:6 | |
| from F: Boltman for slave rent from the 1st instant at rd:s10 per month | 18:-- |
Claims against the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| to Gabriel Jacobus Vies according to a mortgage bond £423 or ƒ17000 | 5666:32 | |
| on the 18 August 1828 in part of this claim is paid to m:r Ewan Christian rd:s315; £23.12.6; paid the balance 15 Sept:br 1828 | to Stephanus Ferreira for balance of an account current | 511:28 |
| paid 20 August 1828 | to Andries de Smith balance of acc:t current | 330:44 |
| to Johannes de Smith balance of acc:t | 244:38 | |
| to Steph:s H:k du Toit according to a letter dated 14 June 1828 | 525:-- | |
| of which has been paid to J:G: Blanckenbergh according to his receipt | 200:-- | |
| the balance of said amount is to time in payment of a bill drawn by Paul du Toit in favour of Weyers and also a balance in favour of said Mr Blanckenbergh | ||
| the widow states that she drew o the Bank after the demise of her husband for rd:s100, which she used for purchasing of morning clothes for herself and children |