Lot: G6 (Taxlots)

Claes Claessen Bordingh was in the colony as early as 1647, when he is alleged to have been engaged in the profitable occupation of smuggling guns at Fort Orange. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 118. In 1651, he formed a partnership with Pieter Jacobsen Marius, which continued for many years. He led an uneventfully prosperous career as a merchant trader, and was cited by Colve as one of the city's rich men. — N. Y. Col. Docs., II: 699. Susanna Marsuryn, his widow, lived in the old house, in 1686. — Selyns's List, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1841, p. 393.

Just a half century from the time of Bordingh's purchase, his daughter, Tryntje, wife of Lucas van Tienhoven, and his other heirs, sold the lot, "with the housing thereupon," to John Cannon, January 5, 1705. — Liber Deeds, XXVI: 73.