MOOC8/47.22a
{18320223} 23 February 1832
Benjamin Croft Goodison
Exhib: 29 Feb:y 1832
Sale 5 March 1832
Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the death of
the reverend Benjamin Croft Goodison Chaplain to the Forces on the seventeenth
day of the month of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two. The deceased having by his last will and testament executed by
him on the 21:st day of November 1831 before the Notary Public Alexander
Hutchisson and witnesses bequeathed the whole of his estate after deduction of
his lawful debts to his surviving widow Eleanor Maria Horne for behaaf of his
children procreated in wedlock, namely
The deceased having further requested the Board of Orphan Masters to be
the executors of his last will and testament. In consequence whereof the
undersigned Comm: Member of the Orphan Board having proceeded to the dwelling
house of the deceased the late rev:d B:C: Goodison for the purpose of taking an
inventory of his estate, ascertained that the whole effects thereof were in the
lawful possession of the firm of Nisbet and Dickson of Cape Town, to whom a
proportion of the said effects were specially mortgaged as testified by proofs
thereof exhibited by James Nisbet of the said firm of Nisbet and Dickson and
who held change of the remainder of such effects as a security for house rent
due to them the said Nisbet and Dickson by the deceased.
Whereupon it was stipulated with the parties aforesaid that upon their
consenting to allow the effects to be taken possession of by the Board of
Orphan Masters and disposed of for account of the estate aforesaid, they the
said Nisbet and Dickson should in consideration of the premises aforesaid rank
preferent upon the proceeds of the said effects, after deduction therefrom of
all such claims upon the estate of the said late Rev:d B:C: Goodison as are
entitled by law to rank prior to that of the said firm of Nisbet and Dickson
and the same having been agreed to by the parties hereto subscribing, the
undersigned Comm: Member then proceeded to take an inventory of the said
estate, which was found to consist of the articles here under mentioned,
viz:t
At the house of Messrs Nisbet and Dickson,
Heeregracht
Memorandum, it appears that the deceased effected a policy of insurance on
his life with the London Life Association for the sum of £500 and that he
assigned and made over to Messrs Nisbet and Dickson by a notarial act dated 21
of Novemb: 1831 the balance on the policy in question amounting to £400 as a
security for the amount of his debts to the firm, the balance of which Mrs
Nisbet and Dickson state they will account to the Chamber after their claim
upon the estate shall have been fully justified.
Thus done and inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope on the 23 day of
February 1832 according to the statement made by Messrs James Horne and James
Nisbet the former of whom has subscribed to these presents in verification of
the account given by him of the articles of furniture belonging to the estate
and the latter in confirmation of such parts hereof as relate to his interests
in the estate.
As Commissioner: C: Blanckenberg
J: Horne
J: Nisbet
In my presence: H: Tennant, Sec:
Ampliation
By a notarial bond entered into by the deceased and Johanna Yda van der
Spuy widow of the late Hendrik Berrange on the 6:th August 1830, it appears
that the female slave
Salea was bought for Rd:s500 which sum was duly paid, under this express condition
that the said
Salea shall at
the expiration of the 6:th August 1834 be manumitted and released from slavery,
and the expense of the manumission be borne by the estate of the deceased. The
estate is therefore entitled to the services of the said slave
Salea up to the 6 August
1834
H:T:
| 1) William Benjamin Croft born 19 Decemb: 1828 |
| 2) Eleanor Ann born 20 March 1830 and |
| 3) Robert James Goodison born 13 Novemb: 1831 |
Household furniture
| a sofa |
| twelve chairs with seats and covers |
| two card tables |
| a sofa table |
| a piano |
| a side board |
| a yellow round table |
| a deal table |
| a fender and set of fire irons |
| a small tea set |
| a hearth rug |
| a carpet |
| a p:r of window curtains |
| some chimny ornaments |
| a green cloth |
| a writing desk |
| a silver watch and a small seal and ring |
Room n: 2
| a set of dining tables |
| a camp table |
| a dressing table |
| a wash hand table |
| twelve cane bottomed chairs |
| twelve hair bottomed chairs |
| a dressing case |
| a looking glass |
| a book rack |
| a foot stool |
| two ink stands |
| a lot of books |
Room n: 3
| a camp table |
| a table |
| a jug and bason |
| an easy chair |
| six dish covers |
| six decanters |
| a tea set defective |
| five tumblers |
| a butter glass |
| seven wine [glass] |
| a toast rack |
| two decanter corks |
| a China jar |
| a brass candle stick |
| a small tine pot and two sauce pans |
| seven empty bottles |
| a tin cady |
| ten dish mats |
| a tea waiter |
| two curtain poles |
| a tea waiter |
| two basons and two jugs |
| a red stone China dinner set |
| twenty seven finger glasses and coolers |
| sixteen champagne glasses |
| twenty one wine glasses |
| four salt cellars with stands |
| a water jug and butter pot |
| five decanters |
| thirty dinner knives and three carving knives and forks |
| sixteen desert knives and forks |
| two knive trays |
| a cruet stand and egg frame |
| a cork screw |
| six plated candle sticks |
| two plated snuffer stands and trays |
| a plated tea pot, sugar pot, milk pot and bread basket |
| three coffee mills |
| seven iron sauce pans |
| a copper tea kettle |
| a frying pan and two tin cannisters |
| a tart pan |
| two buckets |
| a saddle and bridle |
| a tin bason and a clever |
| two smoothing irons |
| a lot of empty bottles, a remnant of rice, coffee and
candles |
In the bed room
| a bedstead with bed furniture, curtains and which it is the
request of Mrs Goodison may be left to her |
| a stretcher |
| a clothes horse |
| three mats |
| a small carpet |
| a hand bell |
In the kitchen
| a table |
| two dishes |
| a jar |
| a coal scuttle and a plate basket |
In the hall
Room n: 4
| a ward robe |
| a writing table |
| a looking glass |
| a dressing case |
| a carpet bag |
| wearing apparel, boots and shoes which it is the desire of Mr J:s
Horne may be left to him at a valuation |
| a trunk |
Room n: 5
| a mahogany ward robe which it is particularly requested by Mr J:s
Horne may be left to Mrs Goodison |
| two dressing tables |
| a small table |
| a looking glass |
| three children’s bedsteads with bedding |
| six cane chairs |
| a sofa |
| a silver waiter 52 £ |
| a silver soup ladle 15 1/2 £ |
| a silver sauce ladle 5 1/2 £ |
| a silver gravy spoon 10 1/2 £ |
| twelve silver table spoons 62 |
| twelve silver forks 60 |
| twelve silver desert spoons 40 £ |
| eleven silver desert forks 34 1/2 £ |
| six silver tea spoons 10 1/4 |
| six silver salt spoons 7 |
| a plated fish knife |
| twelve silver desert knives and forks |
| a silver sugar tong’s |
| a small silver sacrament cup which it was the last wish of the
deceased should be presented to the Rev:d Mr Cooke |
| six chamber pots |
| a wash hand bason |
| a hand bell |
| three foot baths |
Room n: 6
| a press |
| a chest of drawers |
| a wash hand stand, bason and jug |
| two tables |
| two clothes horses |
| a looking glass |
| two window mats |
| a curtain pole |
| an iron bedstead |
| a stretcher and a table |
| five mattrasses |
| two carpets |
| two table cloths and a small [table cloths] |
| six napkins |
| eleven drilets |
| ten coloured drilets |
| three table covers |
| two sheets |
| a counter pane |
| a smoothing iron |
| a looking glass |
In the store
Books
| | vol: |
| a Bible | 3 |
| Crudins concordance | 1 |
| Summer’s treatise | 2 |
| Shakespeare | 12 |
| Practical expositor | 6 |
| Haggiths Sermons | 2 |
| Gisbornes Secrecy | 1 |
| Jenkes devotion | [ ..... ] |
| Lord Byrons works | 8 |
| Southeys Prognes | 2 |
| Milners Church History | 5 |
| Beuerioges works | 6 |
| Theasaurus Theologicus | 2 |
| Newletts Sermons | 2 |
| Davies’s Sermons | 4 |
| Diddoch’s Sermons | 3 |
| British Novelists | 5 |
| Blare’s Sermons | 5 |
| Borsley’s Sermons | 1 |
| Livic Historia | 4 |
| Faith Broken | 4 |
| Horne on the Psalm’s | 2 |
| Hosheim’s esclesiatical history | 6 |
| Doddridge families expositor | 6 |
| Doddridge Sermons | 4 |
| Tomlines reputation of Calvinus | 1 |
| Seckern’s works | 6 |
| Will’s Biddles Geography | 2 |
| Griskines Gridenus | 1 |
| Locke on understanding | 1 |
| Spectator | 8 |
| Practical Sermons | 3 |
| Maniac | 1 |
| Count de Malmont | 3 |
| Vergilius | 1 |
| Boccace | 8 |
| Baileys works | 4 |
| Doddridge on religion | 1 |
| Psalm’s of David | 1 |
| Cooper’s Poem’s | 1 |
| Cape directory | 1 |
| Dodsly’s Poems | 4 |
| Leeds correspondent | 1 |
| Pleasure of imagination | 1 |
| Drydens Virgil | 4 |
| Crawfords Poem’s | 1 |
| Pincocks Catechism | 10 |
| Dwights Theologe | 6 |
| Dictionary of the Holy Bible | 2 |
| Homer’s Iliad | 2 |
| On religious life | 1 |
| New Manual of devotion | [ ..... ] |
| Fergusons astronomy | 1 |
| Stanhopes prayers | 1 |
| Common prayer book | 2 |
| Cabinet of curiosities | 1 |
| a Bible | [ ..... ] |
| Gilbas | [ ..... ] |
| Millitary dictionary | 1 |
| Boyer’s dictionary | 1 |
| A collection of works on religious and other
subjects | [ ..... ] |
Claims in favor of the estate
| | | £ |
| | cash found in the estate two pounds
sterling | 2 |
| paid | pay as late Chaplain to the forces from 1:st
January last | [ ..... ] |
| paid | from the Colonial Gov:t as acting Chaplain at Wineberg from 1:st of January last at the rate
of £100 per annum | [ ..... ] |
Claims against the estate
| | | £ |
| paid Sep: 1832 | Nisbet and Dickson as agents for W: Hay
balance of a notarial bond passed by the deceased on the 5 of May 1830 in favor
of James Mortimer Maynaard | 117:3:9 |
| | with the interest from 3 Decemb: 1831 |
| | balance of a notarial bond passed on the 4 June 1831
in favor of Nisbet and Dickson | 182:18 |
| | with interest from [ ..... ] |
| paid Sep: 1832 | Nisbet and Dickson for house rent from
1 July 1831 at the rate of £110 p: annum up to the 31 Decemb: last and at the
rate of £7:10 per month from the 1:st of January last | [ .....
] |
