| Introduction | Staet ende inventaris van alle de goederen ende gerechtigheeden, mitsgaders lasten, schulden, soo en sulx de selve bij wijlen Jan Boursse, die tusschen achtsten en negensten november anno xvi een en seventigh in Amsterdam [is] overleden, metter doot ontruymt ende achtergelaten sijn. Gemaeckt by my Jacob Winter Notaris .... opt aengeven van Juffr. Machtelt Bronswinckel, weduwe van de voors. Jan Boursse ten versoucke van Jacques en Gulliam Boursse en Meynard Taeckels, broeders en swager van de voorn. Jan Boursse. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ten versoeck ende opt aengeven als boven. Ende verclarde d'voorn. Juffr. Machtelt Bronswinckel op desen inventaris gebracht ende getrouwelijck te hebben stellen alle t'gen de boedel van haer voors. zal. man Jan Boursse eenichsints concerneert voor soo veel haer bekent is .... Gelyck d'voorn. srs. Jacques ende Gulliam Boursse ende Meynart Taeckels dat syluyden [geen goederen of effecten] den boedel ... concernende directelijck off indirectlijck ter werelt onder haer hebben geslagen off iets van de selve ter quade trouwen weerlos gemaeckt off aengehouden te hebben ... Actum in Amsterdam in den sterffhuis van Jan Boursse gestaen op de St. Anthonisbreestraet den xxiiii, xxv, xxvi november een en seventich en gesloten den eerst decembris een en seventich ter presentie van Gerrit Blyenburgh ende Gerrit Vermeulen als getuigen hier over gestaen. |
| Commentary | Jean Boursse II, the grandson of Jean Boursse I, was the son of Jacques Boursse II (of R 20074 of Montias2) and of Anna de Fore (or Forest). Jacques Boursse II, caffatier (weaver of caffa cloth) was born in Valenciennes about 1589 and died in Amsterdam on 22 February 1648. Anna de (or des) Forest was born in Avesnes (Henegouwen) on 27 September 1587 and was buried on 7 August 1668. For the provisions of her testament, naming Jean Boursse II as her universal heir, see the NOTES to R 20074 of Montias2. Jean Boursse II was baptized in Amsterdam on 16 November 1623. He was a warehouse packer and broker. It has been suggested he may also have been an etcher (F. G. Waller, De familie van de schilders Boursse en de Nise, Nederlandsche Leeuw 50(1932), col. 242). Jean Boursse II married Magtelt Bronswinckel in Amsterdam on 4 April 1662. He passed his testament on 2 August 1661. Among other bequests, he left his brother, the painter Esaias Boursse, 30 f. (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 125). Together with Lambert Mauritsz., he was named guardian over the children of Jan Mauritsz., doosmacker (boxmaker), of INVNO 138, who had died on 1 May 1670. Jean Boursse died in Amsterdam on 9 November 1671. His siblings were: 1) Jacques Boursse III, book seller, baptized 12 December 1624, who married, first, Clara van Breen, daughter of Anthony Gillisz. van Breen, and, second, Elisabeth de Queker and lived until after 15 September 1661; 2) Guilliam Boursse, baptized 20 September 1626 and died shorly after 11 October 1672; 3) Anna Boursse, baptized 27 May 1629, buried 16 May 1674, married Meyndert Taeckel; and 4) Esaias Boursse, painter, adelborst (cadet) in the service of the V.O.C., born 3 March 1631, died on board ship 16 November 1672 (Waller, ibid.) |
