Francois Alewyn Smit

• Death Notes

  18 January 1830
  
  Inventory of all such goods and effects as have been possessed in communion by the late Francois Alewyn Smit and surviving widow Hendrina Magdalena Maartens and which are left by the former who died on the 30th November 1829 ab intestato
  
  Rd:s
  The quidrent place called Gedult situated in the fieldcornetcy Camdebo containing one thousand three hundred and sixty morgen and five hundred and eighty square roods     1400:--
  one old waggon     25:--
  one plough     5:--
  three spades     1:4
  two pickaxes     2:--
  two hatchets     1:--
  four sickles     1:--
  one grindstone     2:--
  eight planes in sort     16:--
  two saws in sort     3:--
  one square     0:4
  ten files and rasps     4:--
  five chizzles in sort     2:4
  one p:r of compasses     0:4
  one drawing knife     0:4
  one brace and bits     10:--
  one brace     1:4
  one vice     10:--
  a rising anvil     5:--
  two hammers     1:--
  one saw     4:--
  one leauger     20:--
  two halfaums     6:--
  one brandy still     40:--
  eight sacks     8:--
  two cannisters     5:--
  one pewter soup bason     4:--
  two pewter basons     1:--
  ten pewter plates     8:--
  twelve earthen plates     3:--
  two earthen dishes     1:--
  eight pewter spoons     1:--
  twenty old forks     2:4
  seven knives     1:6
  three candle sticks and p:r of snuffers     3:2
  two small earthen pots     1:--
  three tin cups     1:--
  one coffee mill     2:4
  one pewter teapot     0:4
  one earthen teapot     0:4
  two small earthen pots     0:4
  one chafing dish and two kettles /:old:/     5:--
  one smoothing iron /:old:/     0:4
  six cups and six saucers     2:--
  three basons     0:6
  one coffee pot /:old:/     2:--
  eight bottles     1:--
  two decanters     3:--
  two wine glasses     1:--
  three small earthen pots     1:--
  one earthen pot /:old:/     0:2
  one pepper box and salt cellar /:old:/     0:2
  one cannister     0:2
  two sieves     5:--
  one glasspomp     0:2
  one watch     5:--
  one press     10:--
  one chist     5:--
  one sofa     20:--
  ten chairs     40:--
  two tables     20:--
  two footstools     0:4
  three buckets     6:--
  two kegs     4:--
  two beds     80:--
  two stretchers /:old:/     2:--
  three iron pots     6:--
  one iron pot     6:--
  one kitchen spoon and fork     0:4
  one saddle and bridle     15:--
  one gun     50:--
  one gun     20:--
  one gun /:old:/     1:4
  five books     5:--
  two tubs     1:4
  some waggon wood     30:--
  one bad of a waggon     15:--
  wood for one p:r of waggon sides     15:--
  one iron mill     10:--
  
  Cattle
  Rd:s
  twenty seven head of black cattle     135
  fifteen oxen at 20 rd:s     300
  one hundred and thirty nine breeding sheep at 1 rd:     139
  seventy two goats at 4 sk:     36
  eight saddle horses     400
  thirty one breeding horses     372
  
  Slaves
  Rd:s
  the male slave named Absalon born of Mosambique aged 50 years /:sickly:/     200
  the male slave named Fortuin born of Mosambique aged 93 years /:blind:/     0
  
  Credit
  Rd:s
  from Johannis Botha     10:--
  from Herculas Botha     32:4
  from Joachim Hendrik Maartens S:r     203:--
  from Anthony Esterhuisen     300:--
  from Abraham van der Berg Abr:m son     100:--
  from Government as per account     18:6
  Rd:s4243:--
  
  Debts
  Rd:s     Rd:s
  to S:V: Oertel     31:--:--
  to Francois Joubert     198:6:4
  to Jacobus Lour:s Schnutz     121:7:4
  to Stephanus Meintjes H:A:S:     57:2:--     409:2:--
  L:g 287:10:11 1/4     Rd:s3833:7:4
  half     143:15:5 5/8     1916:7:5
  
  Heirs
  1) Hendrina Magdalena born May 29th 1813
  2) Cicilia Jacomina born July 8th 1814
  3) Anna Maria Elisabeth born October 9th 1815
  4) Catharina Adriana Petronella born January 10th 1817
  5) Francois Alewyn born September 2nd 1818
  6) Jacobus Johannes born February 22nd 1823
  7) Jacomina Jacoba born May 25th1825
  8) Joachim Hendrik born August 19th 1827
  9) Burgert Godlieb born December 21st 1828
  
  Thus done and inventoried at Graaff Reinet this 18th day of January 1830 according to the declaration of Hendrina Magdalena Maartens widow of the late Francois Alewyn Smit who declared that to the best of her knowledge she has given up all the effects that belong to said estate with further promise should any thing be found afterwards, to add it to this inventory for all which she offered to make oath if required.
  
  The said estate being appraised by Messr:s Francois Joubert and Petrus Francois Joubert in the presence of me the undersigned Agent to the Orphan Chamber and witnesses.
  
  As appraisers: F:s Joubert, P:F:s Joubert
  
  As witnesses: A: Brink, J:J: Schindehutte
  
  Hendrina Magdalena Maartens, weduwe F:A: Smit
  
  In my presence: J:J: Auret, Agent
  
  We the undersigned Francois Joubert and Petrus Francois Joubert do hereby swear that the appraisement in the annexed inventory of the estate of the late Francois Alewijn Smit and surviving widow Hendrina Magdalena Maartens is a just, proper and true valuation to the best of our knowledge.
  
  Sworn before me on the 18th day of January 1830: E: Bergh, R:M:
  
  F:s: Joubert, P:F:s Joubert