Document: Power of attorney from Abraham Martensen to Jan Willemsen Bos to collect wages from the West India Company

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_153i

Description

Power of attorney. Abraham Martensen to Jan Willemsen Bos, to collect money from the W. I. Company in Amsterdam. [1646]

Document Date

1646-12-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-12-06

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Abraham Martensen, from Amsterdam, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Jan Willemsen Bos in his, the principal’s, name to demand and collect from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and forty guilders, earned by the principal on board the ship T’Amandare. On payment of this sum by their honors to the attorney he, Jan Willemsen Bos, may execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding valid whatever shall be done in the matter aforesaid by Jan Willemsz Bos. The original hereof in the record is signed by the principal in the presence of Abram Planc and Adriaen van Tienhoven, the 6th of December anno 1646, at New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Abram Martensen

Translation Superscripts

This power of attorney is canceled.

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_153i.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.