Document: Power of attorney from Adriaen Jansen van Ilpendam to Sybolt Claessen to collect what is due him by inheritance in Holland

This day, the twentieth of the month of August of the year one thousand six hundred and forty-nine, at the office of C. van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, and in his absence before Jacob Hendricksz Kip, his clerk, appeared the worthy Aryaen Jansz van Ilpendam, at present schoolmaster here on the island of Manhatans, who in the presence of and before the undersigned witnesses declared that he constituted and appointed, as he does hereby constitute and appoint, the worthy Sybolt Claesz, at present about to depart on a voyage to the fatherland, his attorney to collect, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name. In the capacity aforesaid, such sum of money, means, effects and property as may be coming to him, the principal, by inheritance from his relatives at Leyden or elsewhere, of whatever kind they may be; to execute a receipt in full for such property, means, effects or money, which shall be valid; to substitute one or more persons; if necessary, to institute legal proceedings, to hear judgment pronounced and to appeal therefrom, doing in all things as the case may further require; he, the principal, promising to approve whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by his above named attorney, or his substitute, even though the matter require more ample and more specific authority than is herein mentioned. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Adriaen Jansen and [ ], as witnesses hereto invited, at Manhatans, in New Netherland, this date as above.

Adriaen van Ilpendam
Evert Tesselaer
Adriaen van Tienh[ oven ]