Document: Power of attorney from Jan Jansen from Piersel to Willem Turck to collect wages earned by him in the service of the WIC.

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NYSA_A0270-78_V3_016b
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Note. Gillis Petersen to Isbrant Dircksen Goethardt, for 180 guilders. [1648];Power of attorney. Jan Jansen, of Piersel, to William Turck, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1648]

Document Date
1648-09-16
Document Date (Date Type)
1648-09-16
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Note | Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Jansz from Piersel,[1] a soldier, who sailed out in the year 1640 in the ship Utrecht and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Willem Turck, merchant here, to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, at the chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and sixty-one guilders, one stiver, fourteen pennies, earned in New Netherland from their honors, as appears by the accompanying account. On payment of the aforesaid sum by the said directors to the above named Mr. Turck or his order, he shall have power to execute a receipt therefor in due form, which shall be valid, he, Jan Jansz from Piersel, approving whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by his attorney or his substitute. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the above named Jan Jansz, with Jacob Kip and Pieter Jacobsz, as witnesses hereto invited, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, this 16th of September 1648.

Jan Jansz
Jacob Kip
Pieter Jacobsz Maryus
Cor. van Tienh.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Piershil, a village in the Hoeksche Waard, province of South Holland.
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_016b.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.

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