Document: Power of attorney from Adam Brouwer to Geurt Servaessen to collect wages due from the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_141b
Description

Power of attorney. Adam Brouwer to Geurt Straass, of Amsterdam, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company. [1645]

Document Date
1645-02-21
Document Date (Date Type)
1645-02-21
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Adam Brouwer, from Ceulen, a soldier (sailed anno 1641 in the ship Swol to Brazil for the chamber of Amsterdam), who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Geurt Servasz, at Amsterdam, [ residing ] in Papenbrigh alley, in “The Whalebone,” to demand and collect in his name from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, all such sums of money as are still due to him, Adam Brouwer, by their honors [ and were ] earned in Brazil, where he received no settlement, having been ordered to proceed to Marinhan. On payment of said moneys by the honorable directors, the aforesaid Geurt Servaesz may [ in token ] of the receipt execute a discharge, which shall be valid, the principal promising to hold valid whatever shall be done in the matter aforesaid by the attorney. The original hereof in the record is signed by Adam Brouwer and the witnesses hereto invited, the 21st of February 1645, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Adam Brouwer
Willem Bredenbent
Pauwlus Van der Becke
Cornelis 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_V2_141b.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.

To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Geurt Servaessen
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Adam Brouwer
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
141b
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11187