MOOC8/44.23a - CANDAS, BEAUFORT, SALT RIVER, GRAAFF REYNET, ELANDS FOUNTAIN, ELANDS FOUNTAIN, WAAI HOEK, WORCESTER

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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Candas, Beaufort, Salt River, Graaff Reynet, Elands Fountain, Elands Fountain, Waai Hoek, Worcester

MOOC Reference: MOOC8/44.23a
Date: 18260123
Names: Candas, Beaufort, Salt River, Graaff Reynet, Elands Fountain, Elands Fountain, Waai Hoek, Worcester
MOOC8/44.23a {18260123} 23 January 1826 Candas Extract journal held by the dep:ty Landdrost of Beaufort on Tuesday Jan:y 23 1826 The Hott:t Hend:k Blaauw appeared and stated that he has brought the remaining property of the estate of the deceased female Hottentot Candas with whose daughter Lys he cohabits with and the property is as follows the rest having died and eaten op thro’ poverty The female Hottentot Lys appears or requisition and coroborates the statement of the Hottentot Hend:k Blaauw The burger Jan Herm:s Coertz appears on requisition and states that he is also aware that the 20 sheep and goats received by the female Hott:t Truy daughter of the deceased Candas were all used at Elands Fountain which she Truy was living with the Hottentot Andries Jures then in the service of Adrian van Wyk sen:r of which circumstance the Englishman named Man is also acquainted with. He is now at the Waai Hoek , district of Worcester , left sick but who is soon expected to return. Resolved that an extract hereof do accompany the auction roll of the property sold on account of the late Candas for the information and consideration of the Board of Orphan Masters. A true extract: J: Baird, D:y Land:t

12 sheep
5 goats
1 hand ax
1 small cooking pot
Questions
11
Yes, but of which 14 died from poverty, 11 we eat for our support and 1 died on the road coming here with those for saleDid you not receive on account of your maid Lys 64 sheep and goats as stated by the bastard Plaatje Kock on the 17:th Nov:r last, if so what became of them
22
I do not know, they must have been lost by my children who herded them without my knowledge, I cannot count, read or write and am often from homeWhat is become of the remaining number
33
YesIs those two or three which Plaatje Kock had, included
44
She left some time ago for Elands Fountain near the Salt River , but I now understand that she is gone to Graaff Reynet to her husbandWhat is become of the female Hottentot Truy, your maids sister
55
They lived upon them and before she left Elands Fountain they had not one to eatWhat is become of the sheep and goats she received

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