| Introduction | Inventaris van allen de goederen actien crediten mitsgaders schulden ende lasten soo ende sulcx de selve by wijlen Juffr. Hester Jans Ellegoot weduwe ende geconstitueerde erffgenaem van wijlen Paulus Emtinck de Jonge (na luijt haerluyden initiele testamentaire dispositie op den 28en november 1663 voor mij notaris ende secker getugen gepasseert) op den vierden augusty 1666 binnen dese stede Amsterdam overleden metter dood ontruijmt . Gemaeckt by mij notaris ... ten versoeck ende opt aengeven Emanuel Ellegoet, droost Pieter Graeff ende deselfs huijsvrouw Diana Ellegoot mitsgaders van Cornelia Wabbes huijsvrouw van Salomon Ellegoot broeder swager suster ende swagerinne respective van de voorn. Hester Jans Ellegoot. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ... in den sterfhuijs van de voorn. Hester Jans Ellegoot weduwe van Paulus Emtinck de Jonge, gestaen op de hoeck van de Beulingstraet binnen deser stede Amsterdam desen xxii, xxiii, xxiiii, ende xxv en september 1666 |
| Commentary | Paulus Emtinck de oude, the father of Paulus Emtinck de jonge of this inventory, was a wax bleacher and merchant of South Netherlandish origin. He was betrothed to Cornelia Laurens, the daughter of Guilliam Louris on 21 October 1616 (DTB 421/1). On 29 September 1628, Paulus Emptinck (I), wax bleacher, declared at the request of Daniel Godijn, merchant, that he had delivered to Godijn four cases of white wax, who had said to him that the wax was not white enough. Emptinck had taken back the four cases, intending to replace them from a whiter batch (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 78(1933), p. 660). Poulus Emtingh I paid a tax of 100 f. in 1631. Another 100 f. were paid for the inheritance from his father in law Guilliaem Louris (Kohier, fol. 256, p. 59). After the death of Cornelia, he was again betrothed on 3 November 1645 with Elisabeth Lenaerts, widow of Egbert Willemsz. (DTB 462/380. On 29 February 1636 (a leap year), he signed a compromise with Cornelis Nason (of INVNO 242) concerning the accounting for a venture (NA 695A, film 4981, Not. J. Warnaerts). On 20 November 1636, a felpmacker (a maker of long-piled velvet) declared at the request of Paulus Emtingh I, merchant in Amsterdam, that he had made many felpen (velvets) for the petitioner and his son Guilliam over the years and that he had recently made four pieces of velvet which he had packed to send to a merchant in Antwerp (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven, R.G.P. 144(1974), p. 134). His son Guilliam was mentioned in the deposition. Paulus Emtingh de jonge of the present inventory was presumably another son of Paulus Emtingh de oude. Two men named Paulus Emtingh, both with their own grave, were buried in the Zuide Kerck in 1654 (one on 25 March, the other on 24 September). One of them was surely Paulus Emtingh de oude. In any case, the INTRO above makes clear that Paulus Emtingh de jonge died after 28 November 1663 when he passed his testament with Hester Ellegoot. She died on 4 August 1666 and was buried on 7 August (DTB 1091/95vo). Among the heirs listed in the INTRO: Emanuel (brother of Hester Jans Ellegoet), Pieter Graeff, droost, married to Diana Ellegoet (sister of Hester), and Cornelia Wabbes, married to Salomon Ellegoet (another brother of Hester). A note on fol. 13vo of the same inventory lists the goods and financial means of the late Paulus Emtinck den ouden drawn up on 17 November 1654 before Notary David Doornick. The inventory contained no works of art. Also listed among the present papers was a testament of the late Magdalena Emtinck, older spinster, drawn up on 17 August 1660 before notary Mattheus Abbas. |
