MOOC8 Estate Inventory
MOOC8/45.40 — ANDREW MATHER
18280508
Inventory details
- MOOC reference
- MOOC8/45.40
- Date
- 18280508
- Names
- Andrew Mather
Transcription
MOOC8/45.40
{18280508} 8 May 1828 Andrew Mather
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death of
Andrew Mather on the fifth day of the month of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
The deceased having by his last will and testament, executed on the 13
March 1826 before the Notary Public Joseph Sturges (appointed) after having
bequeathed several legacies) his sole and universal heirs his brother and
sister James Mather and Christy Ward, wife of George Ward, or in case of their
is either of their deceased, then their issue lawful heirs or assigns.
And having further requested and appointed in the aforesaid will the
Worshipful Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony to be his executors, in
consequence of which the aforesaid property was duly inventoried by the
undersigned commissioned Members of the Orphan Chamber and was found to consist
in the following
In the upper store of E: George
It is here noticed that a seperate inventory will be taken of the joint
stock belonging to the deceased and Mr E: George.
Thus inventarised on the 8:th day of the month of May 1828 according to a
statement made by Mr Edward George and Edward Searle who declared to have acted
bona fide, and that to the best of their knowledge, they have not withheld or
secreted any thing that belongs to the aforesaid estate, and the said appearers
further declared that they are, and will at all times be ready and willing to
confirm this their statement by solemn oath if required, promising at the same
time, that if after the date of this 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: J: Brand, C: Blanckenberg
E: George, E:d Searle
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
Ampliation
E:d Searle
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| a bureau |
| a gold hunting watch, 2 seals and a key |
| a p:r of pistols |
| a powder horn |
| a p:r of shoe buckles /silver/ |
| two bullet moulds |
| a p:r of pinchers |
| two cork screws |
| a seal |
| a cries /of kris/ |
| a hand vice |
| a pliar |
| a three foot roal |
| a patlock |
| a pocked book |
| some carpenters tools |
| three snuf boxes |
| eight books |
| two p:r of knee buckles |
| a silver soup ladle |
| a silver fish slice |
| twelve silver table spoons |
| twelve silver table forks |
| twelve silver desert spoons |
| twelve silver desert forks |
| eighteen silver tea spoons |
| n: 1 |
| twenty nine p:r of stockens |
| nine p:r of socks |
| eighteen shirts |
| seventeen waistcoats |
| one jacket |
| two flannel waist coats |
| six pillow cases |
| n: 2 |
| twenty six p:r of trowsers |
| a shooting jacket |
| seven p:r of drawers |
| eight towels |
| sixteen colers |
| two riding belts |
| ten neck hand kerchiefs |
| fifteen pocket hand kerchiefs |
| one sheet one table cloth |
| n: 3 |
| four coats and a jacket |
| three p:r of cloth trousers |
| seven waist coats |
| a chest of drawers, containing |
| n: 1 |
| six shirts |
| four flannel waistcoats |
| five night caps |
| four hand kerchiefs |
| eleven p:r of gloves |
| five p:r of stockens |
| four p:r of brasers |
| n: 3 |
| three table cloths |
| twenty eight pillow cases |
| twenty nine towels |
| a set of bed curtains |
| n: 4 |
| sixty three books in number and a few newspapers and carricatures |
| three coper prints |
| two pictures |
| two blinds |
| a bed stead |
| a mattras |
| four pillows |
| a night stool |
| six pictures |
| a clothes basket |
| an umbrella |
| three razors, a shaving box and strap |
| a shaving box |
| a tea cady |
| a writing desk |
| six p:r of boots |
| a book case |
| a trunk |
| a coat |
| a jacket |
| a port folio |
| two window curtains |
| two looking glasses |
| three pictures |
| two coat racks |
| a side board |
| a sopha |
| two cast tables |
| a cloths press |
| twelve chairs |
| a sopha |
| two cets of curicle harness |
| one silqle horn harness |
| a cart |
| a horse |
| two croucis |
| ten pieces of different coin |
| one half guinea |
| seven rxd:s and five schell:g paper money |