Estate inventory, deed MOOC8/73.34, 10 November 1828

TANAP transcription, Huygens Institute (GLOBALISE), CC0-1.0; read from the project's local copy of the series on 2026-09-23. Online: MOOC8/73.34.

What this establishes

A Buffelsvlei household in the year the senior died there. A bed at Rd 75, a child's cradle, a brandy still with sixteen bottles, six worn-out vats at Rd 89, a wagon at Rd 300, six trek oxen, four horses, one gun. And one line that outweighs all the rest: "slavine Eeva 1000:--". An enslaved woman named Eva was valued at more than half the estate. Her name is copied as it stands, because the tax roll is the only place it survives.

The Craffords and the Oosthuizens had crossed before: Jan Crafford was a creditor of Marthinus in 1799 (MOOC8/23.4), and a Dirk Johannes Crafford appraised the van der Merwe estate on the Groot Swartberg in 1829 (MOOC8/71.28).

The text as the clerk wrote it

MOOC8/73.34

{18281110} 10 November 1828 Pieter Andries Craffort Anna Johanna Oosthuysen

Taxatie van den boedel van wylen Anna Johanna Oosthuysen gestorven den 2:de Februry 1828 en nagelatenen Pieter Andries Craffort. Buffels Vally , den 10th Nov: 1828.

<table> <thead><tr><td colspan='100%'>Erfgenamen</td></tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>1) Dirk Joh:s Albertus geboren den 29:de May 1819</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2) Susanna Elsie Elizabeth 10:de Dec: 1821</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3) Gerhardus Joh:s Daniel 16 Dec: 1825</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<table> <thead><tr><td colspan='100%'>Goederen</td></tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>Rd:s</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 thee tavel</td> <td>6:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 kombuis tavel</td> <td>5:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3 rakken in soorten</td> <td>6:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9 porcelyn borden</td> <td>1:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2 tinne schotels</td> <td>2:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2 aarde potten</td> <td>1:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2 blikke trommels</td> <td>5:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3 yzer kook potten</td> <td>13:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 thee pot</td> <td>1:4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 afgesleten koper ketel</td> <td>4:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 bed met zyn toebehooren</td> <td>75:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 kinder wieg</td> <td>8:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 yzer komfoor</td> <td>1:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 katel</td> <td>4:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 kandelaar</td> <td>0:6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 rooster</td> <td>2:4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5 lepels in zoorten</td> <td>1:4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 water emmer</td> <td>0:6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6 versletene vaten</td> <td>89:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 brandewyn ketel met 16 flesen</td> <td>30:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 ossewagen met toebehooren afgesleten</td> <td>300:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6 trek ossen</td> <td>96:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3 aanteel paarden</td> <td>48:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 rijd paard</td> <td>30:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 geweer</td> <td>15:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6 afgesletene stoelen</td> <td>24:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>slavine Eeva</td> <td>1000:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>uitstaande geld</td> <td>107:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>Rd:s1877:--</td> </tr> <tr> <td>the half</td> <td>938:4</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

H:J: van Tonder

Ik ondergetekend door den Agent van de Weeskamer alhier aangesteld als taxateur van den boedel van wylen Anna Johanna Oosthuysen en nagelatenen echtgenoot Pieter Andries Craffort, bezweer dat ik geen belang in gemelden boedel heb en dat myne taxatie beloopende op rd:s een duizend acht honderd zeven en zeventig /Rd:s1877/ naar myne beste kennis, de waare, juiste en zuivere taxatie daarvan is.

H:J: van Tonder

Sworn before me 10th December 1828

C:n Lind, R: Magistrate

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