MOOC8/45.96
{18270816} 16 August 1827
Hendrik Jacobus Visser Gert son ,
Anna Gysberta
Elisabeth Basson Michiels daughter
Inventory of all such property of Hendrik Jacobus Visser Gert son and his
wife Anna Gysberta Elisabeth Basson Michiels daughter relinquished by the
intestate death of the firstmentioned on the first day of the month of July in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven for the
benefit of his aforesaid wife on the one and his four children procreated in
wedlock with his aforsaid wife on the other hand, namely
The aforesaid property having been taken under the administration of the
Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony in behalf of the aforesaid heirs, and
been inventoried by the undersigned was found to consist in the following,
viz:t
At the place
Volvedans situated at
Swartland belonging to Gerrit Visser
Thus inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope at the place
Wolvedans on the sixteenth day of the month of
August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven,
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 required, promising at the same time
that if after the date of these presents any property of this estate might be
discovered shall and will 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 the
Secretary of the Orphan Chamber have subscribed to these presents
As Commissioners: G:E: Overbeek, J: Horne
A:G:E: Visser
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| 1) Gerrit Jacobus born on the 29 January 1821 |
| 2) Michiel Adriaan born on the 27 September 1822 |
| 3) Susanna Sophia born on the 17 May 1824 |
| 4) Hendrik Jacobus born on the 3 Juny 1826 |
In the hall
| three tables |
| two corner tables |
| twelve chairs |
| a copper teakettle and chafing dish |
| six floor mats |
| a copper kettle and chafing dish |
| some cups and saucers |
In the room on the right hand side
| a writing desk |
| three stretchers |
| a table |
| two cannisters |
| a chaff sieve |
| two trunks |
| a case with flasks |
In the room on the left hand
| two bedsteads |
| one bed, four pillows, blanket, two sheets four pillow
cases | left to the widow for the use of herself and children |
| a sopha |
| three tables |
| a gun, powder horn, and shot belt |
| a hand organ |
| a remnant canvas |
| some plates and dishes |
| twenty seven sacks |
| two tumblers |
In the kitchen
| three iron pots |
| three buckets |
| a tub |
| a baking trough |
| a butter churn |
| a milk tub |
Outside
| some wood |
| a harrow |
| some spars and bamboes |
| a window frame |
| an old cask |
| a tub |
| a large chest and some skins |
| a lifter (:wagen bok:) |
| two small anker casks |
| a tub |
| four /trektouwen |
In the smith’s shop
| two augurs |
| an adze |
| a hand saw |
| a brace and bits |
| an anvil |
| a rasp |
| two files |
| four chissels |
| a draw knife |
| a smoothing plane |
| three smoothing [plane] |
| three mounting [plane] |
| a squarer |
| a compas |
| two swords |
| a hatchet |
| a frame saw |
| a box with tools |
| a large whip |
| two whip thongs |
| a few kegs with some paint |
| a cask with some tar |
| an ox hide |
| a p:r smiths bellows |
In an outside room
| three sets harness |
| a span ox straps and thongs |
| two [span] ox straps and thongs |
| a canvas manger |
| nine ox yokes |
| two planks |
| a tent sail |
| four tarpots |
| four hammers |
| three picks |
| four spades |
| a drag chain and some old iron |
| three plough shares |
| a grinding stone |
| some brick forms |
| two trowels |
| three hammers and other tools |
| three corn shovels |
| a vice and some old iron |
| three hay forks |
| a covered waggon |
| an open waggon |
| a bullock waggon |
| a cart |
| a wheel barrow |
| two ploughs |
| a waggon bed (:buik plank:) |
| a plough defective |
| a horse mill |
| a span harnes |
| a boat and 4 owers |
| a can with oil |
In the kraal
| thirty four oxen |
| eight cows |
| fifty nine sheep |
| one hundred and forty goats |
| two hundred and ninety four breeding sheep |
| eleven horses |
| eight mares |
| fourteen muids wheat standing in the field |
| five muids barley |
| eleven muids oats |
| two muids rye |
Slaves
| a male slave named Joan of Madagascar , 47
1/2 years, labourer |
| a male slave named Jan of Mosambique , 40
years, labourer |
| a male slave named Hector , born on the 21
January 1820 whose mother is dead |
| a female slave named Rachel , born on the 30
Dec:r 1817 |
Claims against the estate
| | | Rd:s |
| paid 8:th Maij 1828 | to Jan Daniel Karnspek
ƒ4800 | 1600:-- |
| paid 12:th Februarij 1828 | to wid:w H: Caesare ƒ4500
according to a notarial bond dated [ ..... ] | 1500:-- |
| paid 15:th Januarij 1828 | to Paul
Snyders | 1100:-- |
| paid 6 March 1828 | to Jan
Truter | 2000:-- |
| paid 12:th Februarij 1828 | to Gerrit
Visser | 1333:16 |
| | interest from 1 January 1826 |
| to Gerrit Visser for one
years interest of the place Wolvedans | 240:-- |
| to Gerrit Visser as per account | 33:-- |
| paid December 1827 | to Michiel
Smuts | 40:-- |
| paid 18 March 1828 | to the Hott:t Klaas Foster for
wages | 31:-- |
| paid September 1827 | to the Hott:t Klaas Rondganger for
wages | 24:-- |
