Document: Power of attorney from Simeke Jacobsen, skipper, to receive money due to him by the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V3_014a
Description

Power of attorney. Simeke Jacobsen, skipper, to receive moneys due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1648];Power of attorney. Sybolt Claesen to Reyer Stoffelsen, to receive moneys due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1648]

Document Date
1648-09-11
Document Date (Date Type)
1648-09-11
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Simeke Jacobsz, at present master of the yacht Amsterdam, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, [ ],to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of three hundred and twenty-one guilders, eighteen stivers, four pennies, earned [ in the service ] of their honors by him, the principal, on the ship Swol, as appears by the account annexed. On payment of this sum by the above mentioned honorable directors to the aforesaid attorney, he shall have power to execute a receipt in full therefor, which shall avail their honors as [ evidence of ] good payment; he, Sinneke Jacobs, holding as valid whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by the aforesaid attorney or his substitute. Thus done and signed in the record by the above named Sinneke Jacobsz, with Johannes Rodenborch and Jacob Kip as witnesses hereto invited, this 11th of September A° 1648, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Simeke Jacops
Johannes Rodenb[ orch ]
Jacob Kip
C. van Tienhoven

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_V3_014a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.

From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Simeke Jacobsen
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
3
Volume
3
Item
14a
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/19005