Document: Power of attorney from Gerrit Jansen to Willem de Key to receive money due him by the West India Company

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Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V3_001a

Description

Power of attorney. Gerrit Jansen of Enckhuysen, to William de Key, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1648];Power of attorney. David Provoost to the heirs of Jochem Botjes and Jan Cornelissen, deceased, to receive moneys from the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1648]

Document Date

1648-08-17

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-08-17

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before[1] me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Gerrit Jansz from Enckhuysen, who sailed in the year [ ] in the ship [ ], for account of the chamber at Amsterdam and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Willem de Key in his, the principal's, name to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and eighty-two guilders net, earned by him, the principal, as gunner on their honors' yacht De Catt, as appears by the accompanying account. On payment of the above mentioned sum by the said directors to the above named Mr. de Key, he shall have power to execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid, he, Gerrit Jansz, holding valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the case above mentioned by his attorney, or his substitute. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Gerrit Jansz with Jacob Kip and [ ] as witnesses hereto invited, this 17th of August, 1648, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.[2]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: In the margin is written with a much later hand: "Cornelis van Tienhoven 1648," and underneath the letter "W," by which the record was formerly designated and under which it is entered in the Catalogue of the Records in the Office of the Secretary of the State of New York, on the first day of January, 1820, compiled by John Van Ness Yates, in Journal of the Senate. 43d session, 1820, p. 16.
[2]: Not signed.

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_V3_001a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.