Cornelis slowed down around 1659

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Cornelis Segerse (van) Egmont (van Voorhout) was an ancestor of the
Egmont and Schermerhorn families of Albany, New York City, and Staten
Island. He was a desendant of the royal Egmont family of Holland. He was
born about 1599 in the town of Voorhout, a small village near Leyden and
Amsterdam, Holland. It is also a short distance to the villages of Egmont
and Schermerhorn in Holland.

He sailed from Amsterdam on the ship "het Wapen van Renssellaerwyck" Aug.
25, 1643 with his wife and children. On his arrival, he acquired a farm
formerly occupied by Brant Peelen in Renssellaerwyck on Castle Island.
This was located opposite Bethlehem, near Albany. His rent in 1644 was
276 scheppels of wheat and 320 of corn, by far the highest rent of any of
the farms in Renselarewyck at the time..

In 1646, Cornelis acquired "Welysburgh", the other farm on Castle Island,
thus coming into possession of the entire place. (Today it?s called
Westerlo Island).

 He started a brewery as well. In an inventory of 1651,
this wealthy farmer had 13 horses and 22 cows on 70 morgens (140 acres)
of land.
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Source: NYGBR (1915) p. 346

Cornelis was, well, ornery. 

In October 1648 he was obliged to retract
derogatory comments about Andries de Vos, as well as remarks he had made
to the effect that Jan Barentsen Wemp was "a rascal, a thief and the
greatest liar in the colony."

 The next summer court records show him in a
fight with a former employee, and the year after that, slashing a man in
the face with a glass. In Jan 1650, both Cornelis and Jacob were charged
with assaulting Rensselaerwyck director Brant van Slichtenhorst.

Cornelis refused to pay his rent year after year even though he was
leasing the most valuable property in Rensselaerwyck (it was called
Welysburgh) and was doing quite well. The rent was 1,210 florins (the
next most valuable property in the colony rented for only 810 florins)
and in Mar 1652 van Slichtenhorst went (armed with a court order) to
collect either cash or grain. 

Cornelis nailed shut the door to the grain
loft and could not be reached.

 Cornelis slowed down around 1659, when he
transferred his farm to his son Seger, who had just married.

Cornelis' temper lived on, fatally, in his sons. 

They took up his two
favorite hobbies: drinking and brawling.

 Cornelis, Jr. was charged with
fighting in 1649 and 1650 with three men, and with pulling his knife on
Christoffel s.

 On 31 Aug 1658 Claes was in Hendrick Jochimsen?s
tavern when he began arguing with a soldier named Daniel Nonvou. They got
into a clinch, rolling around on the floor. 

Nonvou managed to draw his
rapier, but it was taken away by a bystander. Claes tried to get another
punch in, but Nonvou drew a small knife and landed it in Claes?s chest.

On 23 Jun 1662 Seger got into a tavern fight with Andries Constapel.
Seger whacked Constapel with a pool cue. Constapel pulled a knife,
stabbed Seger below the short ribs, and then returned the favor in
spades, dealing Claes five blows to the head with the pool cue. The next
day Andries went to Seger?s bedside, and they forgave each other, but
Seger died that night.

Source: Mike Wolf, The Genealogy of the Greene County, NY Wolfes
http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfsbane/mar1996-2.htm

Christoph, Peter R. "Bradt: A Norwegian Family in Colonial America".
Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1994.

PARENTS: Seger Van Voorhout and Tenjelgetze Trintje Van Egmont.

IMMIGRATION: 1644 From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam
Wapen van Rensselaerswijck

Sailed from Amsterdam Sept 1643, arrived New Amsterdam March 1644