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Inventories of the Orphan Chamber
of the Cape of Good Hope


Examples of some interesting inventories

According to the Treatise on the Orphan Chamber for His Majesty’s Commissioners, the oldest document of the Orphan Chamber was an inventory, dated 15th June, 1673, in the estate of Dirk Verwey deceased and his spouse Tryntje Theunisz. It is probable that this inventory was lost before the book was bound, because the first inventory in this MOOC series is one dated 20th October 1673, of the estate of Francois Chamfelaer. He and other burghers had recently been murdered by “Hottentots”  (see MOOC8/1.1 for the transcribed version):

 

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