Factory owner Joachim Halvorsen Borse

Annen gang blev Halvor Borse gift med en datter av Joachim Lobes, Margrethe Joachimsdatter. Commerceråden fikk en voldelig død, idet han på veien hjem til sin gård Fjære i Solum blev drept på Gjeteryggen i 1702 av en som hadde fridd til hans datter, men som han ikke vilde vite noe av. Halvor Borse hadde en sønn i 2det ekteskap, som blev kalt Joachim (f. 1681 d. 1739 på Fjære). Han var mindreårig da faren døde, og det var nok dem som benyttet sig av dette til å skaffe sig fordeler. Det gikk dog så tilslutt at Joachim fikk Ulefos jernverk og gården Fjære. Med sin hustru, den dyktige Charlotte Amalie, datter av generalmajor Johan Arnold, som nu hadde overtatt Borgestad, fikk han en betydelig medgift og blev en meget formuende mann. Men det gikk allikevel helt ut med ham. Han hadde nemlig gått i kausjon for fogden Melchior Høier og måtte betale dennes veldige underskudd på 35000 riksdaler. Som følge derav gikk han fallitt, og hans eiendommer blev solgt fra ham ved tvangsauksjon. Gården Fjære fikk han dog beholde, og der har hans efterkommere siden bodd til den ved salg gikk ut av slekten. Jernverket på Ulefos blev kjøpt av en sønn av den i Brevik ikke ukjente Kort Adler, geheimeråd F. C. Adler på Gjemsø Kloster ved Skien. Men i 1726 tok Herman Leopoldus det igjen på odel.

Den del av den før så mektige Borseslekt, som interesserer oss, var nu om ikke helt forarmet så dog betydelig redusert i økonomisk henseende, og dens medlemmer måtte derfor se sig om efter andre leveveier. En søn av Joachim Borse Lars Halvardius, gift med Bolette Fredrikke Monrad måtte således ta tilsjøs og blev skibsfører.

Kilde: http://www.porsgrunn.folkebibl.no/bok/bh/BB-3.html

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Joachim Halvorsen Borse was a well-read man and got a solid education. The Chief interest was the theology and botany. He inherited large values for his father, he sold Borgestad Farm, in Porsgrunn to major general John Arnold, who would later become his father-in-law.

He took over the company, Ulefoss Iron Works and the farms Holla in Ulefoss and Fjære in Solum. There was bad economic times, and when he had given loan guarantees to colleagues, and allowed himself to be taken advantage of, he lost almost everything he owned. He remained on the farm just north of Skien.

Nicolay w. Coch writes of Joachim: He was a minor when his father died, and there were enough people who used this to gain benefits, however, eventually Joachim got Ulefos Iron Works and the farm Fjære. With his wife, the talented Charlotte Amalie, daughter of major-general John Arnold that had now taken over Borgestad he got a substantial dowry and became a very wealthy man.

But this soon ended. He guaranteed bail for Recorder Melchier Høier and had to cover an enormous deficit of 35,000 riksdaler. As a result of this he went bankrupt and his estates were sold by compulsory auction. He got to keep the farm Fjære. Ulefos Iron Works was bought by a son of Kort Adler in Skien.

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Joachim Halvorsen Borse was a well-read man and got a solid education. The Chief interest was the theology and botany. He inherited large values for his father, he sold Borgestad Farm, in Porsgrunn to major general John Arnold, who would later become his father-in-law.

He took over the company, Ulefoss Iron Works and the farms Holla in Ulefoss and Fjære in Solum. There was bad economic times, and when he had given loan guarantees to colleagues, and allowed himself to be taken advantage of, he lost almost everything he owned. He remained on the farm just north of Skien.

Nicolay w. Coch writes of Joachim: He was a minor when his father died, and there were enough people who used this to gain benefits, however, eventually Joachim got Ulefos Iron Works and the farm Fjære. With his wife, the talented Charlotte Amalie, daughter of major-general John Arnold that had now taken over Borgestad he got a substantial dowry and became a very wealthy man.

But this soon ended. He guaranteed bail for Recorder Melchier Høier and had to cover an enormous deficit of 35,000 riksdaler. As a result of this he went bankrupt and his estates were sold by compulsory auction. He got to keep the farm Fjære. Ulefos Iron Works was bought by a son of Kort Adler in Skien.