MOOC8/47.39 - LONDONDERRY, IRELAND, LONDONDERRY, IRELAND, 10 JOHN STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, LONDONDERRY, IRELAND, N:O 15 UPPER PHILLIMORE PLACE, KENSINGTON, MIDDLESEX, MOUNTGRY FOREST, OMAGH, IRELAND, CALCUTTA, LONDON, CALCUTTA

MOOC8/47.39 {18330422} 22 April 1833 Henry Babington Exh:d the 24:th of April 1833, n:o 22 Inventory of all such property as has been relinquished by the testate death of Henry Babington assistant surgeon in the service of the honorable East India Company on the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 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 on behalf of the said unknown foreign heirs, and been inventoried by the undersigned special Commissioner of the Board aforesaid was found to consist in the following, viz:t The seals previously placed in the property having been found whole and unbroken In the Orphan Chamber whither the goods have been removed from the house of Mr H:E: Blanckenberg where the deceased died. Thus done and inventoried at the Orphan Chamber on this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord 1833 in the presence of doctor Samuel Bailey and Mr Hendrik Emanuel Blanckenberg the latter of whom dated the foregoing to be the whole of the property belonging to the estate and placed under his care by the deceased and that if after the date of these presents any thing further belonging to the said estate may be discovered by him he will communicate or cause it to be communicated to the Orphan Chamber in order that the same may be duly amplified to this inventory As Commissioners: J: Brand, C: Blanckenberg Sam:l Bailey H:E: Blanckenberg In my presence: H: Tennant, Sec:

a mahogany chest of drawers, containing

5 1/2 dozen shirts

4 banyans

5 p:r cotton drawers

1 dozen and 3 neck handkerchiefs

2 dozen and 3 pocket handkerchiefs

6 coloured silk handkerchiefs

2 Indian shawls

1 red night cap

1 doz: and 7 p:r white trowsers

2 dozen shirt collars

2 dozen and 5 white and coloured waistcoats

14 white jackets

2 p:r linnen drawers

4 pieces of towelling

9 night caps

3 p:r of gloves

a set of musquitte curtains

a sea cott with drawers, containing

10 sheets

9 pillow cases

4 doz: and 11 towels

a remnant of serge

4 white neck handkerchiefs

1 p:r of silk trowsers

1 p:r of white cassimere trowsers

5 p:r of braces

5 p:r white stockings (cotton)

1 doz: and 10 white cotton socks

1 green coat

1 blue coat

1 uniform coat

2 military jackets

3 blue jackets

1 grey [jackets]

3 bans

1 great coat

3 p:r black silk socks

2 p:r white silk socks

2 p:r cloth trowsers

1 p:r dito waistcoat (silk)

1 doz: and 4 worsted socks

1 case of surgical instruments

1 pocket book of surgical instruments

1 leather case of surgical instruments

4 cups and balls

2 puzzles

a parcel addressed Miss Babington, Londonderry , Ireland

a dito parcel addressed Miss Babington, Londonderry , Ireland

a box with one p:r of gold epauletts

1 lucifer

a red Morocco case containing a miniature portrait

copper plate engraving

1 tin box with old silver lace and buckles

1 snuff box

1 pack of cards

1 sword belt

1 p:r must cuffs

3 rolls of bands and 1 piece of tape

2 pieces of silk

1 p:r of shoulder straps and a few buttons

a few hooks and a fishing line

1 thread case

a clothes basket, containing

1 doz: and 8 flannel waistcoats

1 piece of flannel

1 p:r of drawers

1 doz: cotton socks

1 doz: and 2 silk handkerchiefs

1 piece of towelling

1 piece of red cotton

1 p:r of boots

4 p:r of shoes

1 p:r of Indian gilt tinsel

a dressing case containing razors, razor straps, a clothes brush, etc:a

2 books (medical returns and pay abstracts)

1 [books] (Shakespeare)

1 [books] Thomsons London dispensatory

1 [books] The Holy Bible

1 [books] of Common Prayer

1 [books] Doddridge’s Rise and Progress

1 [books] A treatise on surgery

1 [books] Private Account Book

8 books Numbers of the New Monthly Magazine

1 [books] London Medical Gazette

1 [books] Faulkner on shipwreck

1 p:r of razors

1 silk bed cover

a trunk, containing

3 small boxes containing draughts and chess men

1 box sigars

1 box containing medicines

1 pack of Windsor soap

1 tin sigar box

1 tinder box

3 spy glasses

1 Moor’s cap

1 roll of medical certificates

4 dice boxes

1 box with snuff

3 jars of jams

4 bottles cherry brandy

1 [bottles] brandy

1 [bottles] of carbonated powder

1 [bottles] of medicine

8 wax candles

1 bundle of quills

8 packs of private letters and accounts

1 lot of letter and foolscap paper

1 red cap

2 p:r of socks

2 cloth rags

a bundle of matches

2 military caps

1 brace pistols with box

1 box with surgical instruments

a medicine chest

1 box containing 1 doz: and 3 pint bottles of brandy

1 box containing sigars

1 empty case

1 sea cott with bedding

1 frame

3 swords

1 black (old) hat

1 white (old) hat

3 tiger skins

1 arm chair

1 cuddy lamp

a box, containing

2 rugs

1 small box with tiger tusks and beads

4 pictures

2 white Indian shawls

5 red Indian shawls

3 sandlewood jars

1 silk sash

a writing desk, containing

175/one hundred and seventy five rupees

2 small copper coins

2 silver shirt buttons

1 roll said to contain twenty guineas and sealed up addressed “for Dr Egerton” with a note of directions round the same

1 gold ring

1 p:r of gold spectacles

1 gold watch with seal and key

1 gold chain with 2 gold seals

1 gold seal

1 portrait

1 parcel addressed “Doctor D: Birch, 10 John Street , Adelphi , London ”

3 sealed letters addressed to “Miss Jane Blackall, Londonderry , Ireland ”; “Miss Rathbone, N:o 15 Upper Phillimore Place near Kensington , Middlesex ”; “Mrs Hill, Mountgry Forest , Omagh , Ireland ”

1 gold pin

a second and third of a bill of exchange for £406:10:9 drawn by Alexander and Co: of Calcutta in favor of doctor Henry Babington upon Fletcher Alexander and co: London , dated Calcutta 1:st December 1832

1 watch ribbon

1 p:r Cornelian shirt buttons

1 lancet

1 silver pen

1 book (army list)

a few papers and accounts