Document: Power of attorney from Jan Jansen to Wyntjen Pieters to collect his wages earned on board the ship Neptunes

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_030d

Description

Power of attorney. Jan Jansen to Wyntje Pieters, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1642]

Document Date

1642-09-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1642-09-11

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhov[ en ], secretary in New Netherland, appointed by the General Chartered West India Company, appeared Jan Jansen Jongen,[1] from Amsterdam, who empowers, as he hereby does, Wyntjen Pieter[ s ], residing at Amsterdam, to demand and receive for him from the honorable directors of the said Company the sum of eighty-four guilders, two stivers, ten farthings, due him [ by ] the said gentlemen by balance of a certain account hereto annexed, signed by Hendric Gerritsen and Gillis Rost van Ceulen, which sum he earned on board the ship Neptunes. Said sum being paid to her, the attorney, she may execute a receipt which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding further as valid whatever shall be done herein by her. In testimony whereof this is signed by the above named Jan Jansen [ and by ] Adriaen van Tienh[ oven ] and Maurits Jansen, as witnesses hereto invited. Done the 11th of [September anno 1642 in] New Netherland.2

Adriaen van Tienhoven
Maurits Janse
Cornelis van Tienh.

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Literally: Jan Jansen, boy. Perhaps intended for Jan Jansen, Junior.

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_030d.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.