Document: Power of attorney from Gerrit Hendricksen to Gerrit Arentsen to collect wages earned by him as a soldier in the service of the WIC in New Netherland

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_162d
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 Gerrit Hendricksz from Holden[1] or Hoepten, late a soldier, now a freeman, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gerrit Arentsen, merchant at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and receive in his name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of three hundred and forty-five guilders, eight stivers and eight pennies earned by him in New Netherland, as more fully appears by the account annexed. On payment of which moneys by their honors to the above named Gerrit Arentsz, or his attorney, he shall have power to guarantee their honors against future claims. Thus done and signed by Gerrit Hendricksz in the presence of Jacob Kip [ and ], witnesses hereto invited, the 2nd of August anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Perhaps intended for Holten, a village in the province of Overijssel, about 12 miles east of Deventer. Not unlikely, the former soldier was the same person as Gerrit Hendricksen from Deventer, who in May 1646 married at New Amsterdam Marie Lamberts, spinster, born in New Netherland.
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_162d.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
Gerrit Arentsen
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Gerrit Hendricksen
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
162d
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11358