Document: Power of attorney from Jacob Loper to Cornelis Melyn to collect money due him for his service on the island of Curaçao

This day, date underwritten, at the office of the secretary of New Netherland and in his absence before Jacob Kip, his clerk, appeared the worthy Jacob Looper, having sailed in 1643 in the ship Swol as commander of the military and being at present a freeman here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Cornelis Melyn, his father-in-law, to demand, collect and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of Chartered West India Company, at the chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of twenty-three hundred and eleven guilders, five stivers and 12 pennies, the sum of f1.660:15 endorsed on the back of the account having been deducted therefrom; which said sum is due him by their honors for his service on Curacao, as appears by the annexed account. On receipt thereof by his above named father-in-law or his substitute, he shall execute a formal discharge therefor, which shall be valid. He, the principal, promises to hold and to cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by his above named attorney or his substitute, who in all things are to do as the case may require. He requests an authentic instrument hereof Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Jacob Looper and [ ], as witnesses hereto invited, this 14th of August 1649, in New Amsterdam.

Jacob Loper
Arnoldus van Hardenberch
Adriaen van Tienhoven