Document: Power of attorney from Gerrit Douman to Govert Loockermans to collect money from the West India Company due to Jacob Naviere

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_149h

Description

Power of attorney. Serjeant Gerrit Douman, to Govert Loockermans, to receive moneys due him by the W. I. Company. [1646]

Document Date

1646-09-21

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-09-21

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Sergeant Gerrit Douman, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby (in virtue of the order granted to said Douman by the director and council of New Netherland, dated the 21st of September 1645),[1] Mr. Govert Loockmans, merchant on the ship De Jager, to demand and collect from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of six hundred and seven guilders, eighteen stivers, twelve pennies, earned by Jacob Naviere, who died here on the 29th of July 1645, as appears by the account annexed; on receipt of which sum by the aforesaid Loockmans, or his substitute, he may execute a discharge therefor, he, Douman, holding as valid whatever Loockmans shall do in the matter above mentioned. Thus done and signed in the record by Gerrit Douman and by Gysbert op Dyc and Adriaen van Tienhoven, as witnesses hereto invited, the 21st of September 1646, in New Netherland at Fort Amsterdam.

Gerrit Doman
Gysbert ope Dyck
Adriaen van Tienh.

Translation Superscripts

[1]: On September 21, 1645, the director and council allowed Gerrit Douman to take copy of the account of Jacob Naviere, of whom he claimed to be heir and to collect the amount from the West India Company. See N.Y. Col. MSS., 4:235.

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_149h.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.