Document: Power of attorney from Jan Willemsen Schut to Jan Stevensen to collect money due him from the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Willemsz Schut, late steward and now a freeman, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Jan Stevensz, schoolmaster here, to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, at the chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of two hundred and eighty-seven guilders, nineteen stivers, earned in New Netherland by the above named Jan Willemsz as steward, as appears by the account annexed. On payment of the aforesaid sum by the above mentioned directors to the said attorney, he shall have power to execute therefor a receipt in due form, which shall be valid; he, Jan Willemsz, holding valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter aforesaid by the said Jan Stevensz or his substitute. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the above named Jan Willemsz, with Johannes Rodenb[ orch ] and Jacob Kip as witnesses hereto invited, this 31st of August 1648, in New Amsterdam.

Jan Willemsz
Jacob Kip
Johannes Rodenb[ orch ]
C. van Tienhoven