MOOC8/43.36a
{18260320} 20 March 1826
John
Digby
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death ab
intestato of John Digby Esq: on the nineteenth day of the month of March in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six for the benefit of
his unknown foreign heirs
The aforesaid property having been taken under the administration of the
Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony in behalf of the said unknown foreign
heirs and been inventoried by the undersigned special Commissioners of the
Board aforesaid, was found to consist in the following, viz:t
At
Sussex Place situated at
Wineberg
Thus inventoried on the place aforesaid on the 20 of March 1826 in the
presence of the undersigned Commissioners
D: Kuys, J: Horne
In my presence by absence of the Secretary: A: v: Breda, Clerk
J:F: Serrurier Esq:
Dear Sir
Please deliver to the Bearer the whole of the property belonging to the
late Mr Digby Esq: also the bond given by Mr Wentworth for rd:s2000
Your most whole
J:N: Thomson
Cape Town, Nov: 12, 1829
I, the undersigned, William Reed, qualified by Mr John Robert Thomson, do
acknowledge to have received from the Secretary to the Orphan Chamber Mr J:J:L:
Smuts the undermentioned articles found in the estate of the late John Digby,
viz:t
Orphan Chamber 12:th November 1829
W:m Reed
| a trunk containing n:o 1 |
| seventeen shirts |
| six p:r of drawers |
| ten p:r of trowsers |
| twenty five waistcoats |
| twenty handkerchiefs |
| three p:r of gloves |
| nine p: of stockings |
| eight flannel waistcoats |
| one coat |
| one cap /forage/ |
| a trunk n:o 2 |
| one p:r of drawers |
| thirteen shirts |
| six p: of shoes |
| one flannel waistcoat |
| a p: of boots |
| seventeen handkerchiefs |
| two p: of bracess |
| four towels |
| five p:r of socks |
| one piece of green gauze |
| one shoe horn |
| seven p:r of breeches |
| ten p:r of trowsers |
| six waistcoats |
| two p:r of drawers |
| two jackets |
| one black [jackets] |
| one black coat |
| four blue [coat] |
| one p:r of gaters |
| sixteen p:r of silk socks in sort |
| two p:r of gloves |
| a trunk containing |
| Johnsons Works 12 vol: |
| Shakespeare Works 9 vol: |
| Swifts Works 19 vol: |
| Goldsmiths Works 4 vol: |
| Cowpers Works 2 vol: |
| Wranghain’s Works 6 vol: |
| British India Moniter 2 vol: |
| Jaleb Krans Travels 2 vol: |
| Philicions Chef 2 vol: |
| Ainsworth’s Dictionary 1 vol: |
| Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary 1 vol: |
| Richarsons Dictionary 1 vol: |
| Pursuits of Litarature 1 vol: |
| Cratswills Gazetteer 4 vol: |
| Mills History of British India 6 vol: |
| Johnsons Dictionary 1 vol: |
| Hume and Smollett’s History of England 13 vol: |
| Debritts New Peerage 2 vol: |
| Tytlers India 2 vol: |
| Wrangham British Plutarch 3 vol: |
| Francis Horace 3 vol: |
| Whites Farriery 4 vol: |
| Hiltons Poetical Works 3 vol: |
| Haylis Games 1 vol: |
| seven pamphlets |
| a prayer book |
| a small Holy Bible |
| twenty three books /incomplete/ |
| two rasors and 1 strap |
| a p:r of spectacles |
| a writing desk containing |
| a gold watch chain and seal |
| a gold ring |
| a gold breast pin |
| two p:r of knee buckles |
| a silver pencil case |
| a silver tongue scraper |
| a silver surgical instrument |
| a barrometer |
| a medicine chest |
| a silver egg stand with 6 silver small spoons |
| a book case |
| a hat |
| a millitary cap |
| a wig |
| a bathing machine |
| a carriage |
| two carriage horses |
| a set of harness for two horses |
| two horse cloths and two roller’s brushes and curry combs |
| a tar pot |
Cash found in the estate
| | Rd:s |
| one rixdoll:r and four shillings paper money | 1:24 |
| five shill: silver money | 3:16 |
Claims in favour of the estate
| | | £ |
| claim of Wentworth closed 15 November 1827 nothing awarded
sequestrators office 2 Octob: 1827 | from Charles August Wentworth
according to a notarial bond dated 30 Sep:r 1825 Rd:s2000 or | 150 |
| a gold watch, with chain and seal |
| a Bible in 3 volumes |
| Johnson’s Work in 11 volumes |
| a notarial bond executed by D:r Charles August Wentworth on the
30:th September 1825 in favor of the said late J: Digby, amounting to rixd:rs
two thousand or £150 |
