Document: Power of attorney from David Provoost to the heirs of Jochem Botjes and Jan Cornelissen to receive money due him by the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Davidt Provoost, late commissary at the house De Hoop,[1] at present a freeman here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, the heirs of Jochem Botjes and Jan Cornelisz — who in their lifetime sailed in the ship De Bever, Jan Claesz Smal, master — in his, the principals, name to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of nine hundred and sixty-three guilders, three stivers, twelve pennies, earned by him, the principal, from their honors at Fort De Hoop in New Netherland, as appears by the account annexed.[2] On payment of the above mentioned sum by the said directors to the above named attorneys, they are authorized to execute a formal receipt which shall be valid, he, the principal, promising to hold and cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the case above mentioned by the above named heirs Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the principal, with Jacob Kip and Willem de Key as witnesses hereto invited, the 17th of August 1648.

David Provoost
C. van Tienh[ oven ]