Document: Power of attorney from Wybrant Harmansen to Warnaer Francen to receive money due him by the West India Company

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_072a

Description

Power of attorney. Wybrant Harmansen to Warnaer Francen to receive money due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1643]

Document Date

1643-09-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-09-01

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

[ Before me ], Cornelis van Tien[ hoven ][ , secretary ] in New Netherland appointed by the General [ Chartered ] West India Company, [ appeared ] Wybrant Harmansen, seaman on board the Neptunes lying in the roadstead here, who appoints and empowers as he hereby does appoint and empower, Warnaer Francen in his, the principal’s, name to demand and collect from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and three guilders, fourteen stivers, ten pennies, due him as balance of the annexed account, on receipt of which Werner Fransen shall execute a discharge; he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted herein by the principal. Thus done and signed in the record the first of September anno 1643, in New Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Wybrant Harmansen

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_072a.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.