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1647-07-29
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Gillis Pietersen (who built No. 11) also built this house. He sold it to Egbert van Borsum, July 29, 1647. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 39.
Egbert van Borsum was a sailor. In 1642, he is referred to as a "skipper" of the West India Company. — Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 715. He seems to have been in charge of the Company's yachts and other small vessels. Arent van Curler mentions him as follows: "Egbert Van Borsem who brought me in his sloop to the santpunt." — Ibid., 719, 720. After the directors of the West India Company had given to the burgomasters and schepens the privilege of farming out the ferry to Breuckelen, on May 18, 1654 {Rec. N. Am., I: 218), Van Borsum became its first lessee, under the ordinance of July i, 1654. — Laws iff Ord., N. Neth., 162-5; ^- Y- ^o^- Docs., XIV: 269. The following April, he contracted with Jan Cornelissen [Cleyn], Abram Jacobsen, and Jan Hendricksen to construct a house for him at his ferry, to cost 550 guilders. — Powers of Attorney, trans, by O'Callaghan, 136-7. (See the suit between Van Borsum and Jan Cornelissen, in Rec. N. Am., I: 311.) Van Borsum farmed the ferry until the end of May, 1661. — N. Y. Col. Docs., XIV: 421. After he had given it up, he continued to rent out boats and scows, as a means of livelihood. — Rec. N. Am., V: 24-25; VI: 181. Van Borsum's marriage, on December 11, 1639, to Annetje Hendricks, is the first one entered in the records of marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 10.
Egbert van Borsum was a sailor. In 1642, he is referred to as a "skipper" of the West India Company. — Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 715. He seems to have been in charge of the Company's yachts and other small vessels. Arent van Curler mentions him as follows: "Egbert Van Borsem who brought me in his sloop to the santpunt." — Ibid., 719, 720. After the directors of the West India Company had given to the burgomasters and schepens the privilege of farming out the ferry to Breuckelen, on May 18, 1654 {Rec. N. Am., I: 218), Van Borsum became its first lessee, under the ordinance of July i, 1654. — Laws iff Ord., N. Neth., 162-5; ^- Y- ^o^- Docs., XIV: 269. The following April, he contracted with Jan Cornelissen [Cleyn], Abram Jacobsen, and Jan Hendricksen to construct a house for him at his ferry, to cost 550 guilders. — Powers of Attorney, trans, by O'Callaghan, 136-7. (See the suit between Van Borsum and Jan Cornelissen, in Rec. N. Am., I: 311.) Van Borsum farmed the ferry until the end of May, 1661. — N. Y. Col. Docs., XIV: 421. After he had given it up, he continued to rent out boats and scows, as a means of livelihood. — Rec. N. Am., V: 24-25; VI: 181. Van Borsum's marriage, on December 11, 1639, to Annetje Hendricks, is the first one entered in the records of marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 10.