Document: Power of attorney from guardians of C. Dircksen to W. Turck and S. Verbruggen to collect from the WIC moneys due the late D.C. van Wensveen

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland appointed by the General Chartered West India Company, appeared Mr. Oloff Stevensz and Michiel Jansz as legally chosen guardians of Cornelis Dircksz, son of the late Dirck Cornelisz van Wensveen, in his lifetime carpenter here in New Netherland, who appoint and empower, as they do hereby, Mr. Willem Turck and Mr. Seth Verbruggen to receive from the honorable Mr. Wolter van Twiller, late director general of New Netherland, all such power of attorney and accounts against the West India Company as Dirck Cornelisz, deceased, has transmitted to the said Mr. van Twiller, in order to demand the payment thereof. On the transfer and delivery of said accounts and power of attorney by Mr. van Twiller to the attorneys, they are authorized to execute a receipt therefor and to exhibit said accounts to the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company; to demand, collect and receive the payment of the moneys therein mentioned and to execute a receipt in full therefor; to substitute one or more persons and in all things to do and perform whatever they, the principals, in the capacity aforesaid, might or could do, even though the case were such as to require more ample or specific power than is inserted herein; they, the principals, promising to hold and cause to be held valid all that shall be done and transacted in the matter by their above named attorneys or their substitutes, as the case may require; requesting an authentic instrument hereof. Thus done and signed in the record by the principals, together with Jacob Kip and Johannes Rodenborch as witnesses, the 16th of September A°. 1648, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Machghyel Jansz
Oloff Stevensz
Cor. van Tienhoven