...This is the location of the house built at Pavonia by Cornelis van Vorst. — N. Y. Col.
Docs., XIV: 16. In 1632, we find him director or chief officer of Paauw's patroonship
of Pavonia (later Comounepau, Gemoenepau, or Communipaw, a part of the present
Jersey City). — Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 304, et seq.; De Vries's Notes, in Jameson's
Nar. N. Neth., 197-8. He was dead before March 31, 1639. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 6.
... As early as September, 1634, Cock was a partner of Cornelis van Vorst, of Pavonia,
in the ownership of a trading sloop {Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 8), and, undoubtedly, shared
with him the very lucrative fur-trade with the Indians which Van Vorst is known to have
carried on. This close association led to Cock's betrothal to Annetje, Van Vorst's daughter.
After the death of her father, however, the young lady declined to fulfil her engagement
of marriage, whereupon her lover sued her for breach of promise. The suit dragged on
through the court for more than a year ...
