Document: Power of attorney from Adriaen Vincent to Margariet Troezee to collect his pay as cadet earned in the service of the WIC in New Netherland

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NYSA_A0270-78_V3_053a
Description

Power of attorney. Adriaen Vincent to Margaret Frotzee, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1647];Power of attorney. Juriaen Andriessen to Jacob van Cowenhoven, to receive money due him by the same. [1647]

Document Date
1647-08-14
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-08-14
Document Type

Translation
Translation

This day, date underwritten, at the office of the secretary of New Netherland and in his absence before his clerk, appeared the worthy Adriaen Vincent from Aecker, late cadet in the honorable Company's service here and now a free man, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby [ appoint and empower ], Margarit Troezee, residing at Amsterdam, or, in her absence, the worthy Mr. Arnoldus van Hardenbergh, to demand, recover, collect and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company at the chamber of Amsterdam the sum of four hundred and six guilders, four stivers, eight pennies, earned by him, the principal, from their honors in New Netherland, as appears by the enclosed account, the original of which was lost in DePrinces. On receipt of the said sum from their honors by either of the above named attorneys, or their substitutes, he shall have power to grant a discharge therefor, which shall be valid, he, the principal, promising to hold and cause to be held valid whatever shall be done or transacted in the matter aforesaid by his above named attorneys or their substitutes. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Adriaen Vincent and [ ], as witnesses hereto invited, this 14th of August 1649, in New Amsterdam, in New Netherland.

Adriaen Vincent
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Gysbert open Dyck

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_053a.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.

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New Netherland
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Margariet Troezee
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Adriaen Vincent
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