Document: Power of attorney from Abraham Staets to Lucas Smith to receive money from the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_158g
Description

Power of attorney. Abram Staets to Luycas Smith, to receive money from the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1647]

Document Date
1647-07-02
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-07-02
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Abraham Staets, an inhabitant of the colony of Renselaerswyck, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Luycas Smith[1] to ask, demand and collect in his, the principal’s, name from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of two hundred and thirty guilders due him, the principal, by their honors, as appears by the annexed account; on payment of which money by their honors to Luycas Smith, he shall have power to grant a receipt therefor, the principal further holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter by the attorney. The original hereof is signed in the record by Abraham Staets in the presence of the witnesses hereto invited. Done the 2nd of July anno 1647, in New Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Abram Staas
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Jacob Hendricksz Kip

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Lucas Schmidt, from Johannisburg, East Prussia. See Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., pp. 615, 826.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V2_158g.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.

To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Lucas Smith
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Abraham Staets
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
From Party 2
From Party 2 Entity
DWIC - Corporation - Dutch West India Company (DWIC)
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Box
2
Volume
2
Item
158g
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11319