Document: Power of attorney from Lucas Gerritsen to Nicolaes van Lit to receive moneys from the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Luyckas Gerritsz from Amsterdam, who sailed as a mariner in the year 1646 on the ship De Princes, Captain Jelmer Tomasz, [ master ], for the account of the chamber of Amsterdam, and who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Nicolaes van Lit, at Amsterdam, to ask and receive in the principal’s name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of fifty-seven guilders, two stivers, earned by him, the principal, on the ship De Princes, as appears by the annexed account. On payment of the aforesaid sum by the said honorable directors to the attorney, he or his substitute is empowered to grant a receipt therefor in due form, which shall avail their honors as good payment. He, the principal, promises to hold and to cause to be held valid all that his aforesaid attorney or his substitute shall do and perform in the matter, they to do therein as he, were he present, could or might do. Thus done and signed by the principal in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. Done the 22nd of June anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Luycas Geere[ tsen ]
Jacob Hendricksz Kip
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Cornelis van Tienhoven