Document: Power of attorney from Jan Nagel to Augustyn Herrman to collect wages earned by him as cadet in the service of the West India Company in New Netherland

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_162f
Description

Powers of attorney. Willem de Key and others to divers persons, to receive money due them from the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1647]

Document Date
1647-08-02
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-08-02
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Nagel from Limburgh,[1] late cadet and now a freeman, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Augustyn Herman, merchant here, to ask, demand and receive in the principal’s name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of two hundred and twenty-two guilders, three stivers and two pennies due him, the principal, by their honors as per balance and settlement of the account annexed and earned in New Netherland. On receipt of the aforesaid sum of money by the above named Mr. Augustyn Herman, or his substitute, he is empowered to execute an acquittance therefor, he, Jan Nagel, promising to hold and cause to be held as valid whatever shall be done and transacted herein by the above named Mr. Augustyn or his substitute. Done and signed by Jan Nagel in the presence of Jacob Kip and [ ], witnesses invited hereto, the 2nd of August anno 1647, in New Netherland.

Jan Nagel
Jacob H. Kip
Jan Jansen Damen

Translation Superscripts
[1]: He married in 1652 Grietje Dircks, widow of Jan Schut, and died before May 1658, when his widow married Barent Gerritsen.
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_162f.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.

Location
Locations (Unlinked)
New Netherland
To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Augustyn Herrman
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Jan Nagel
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
162f
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11360