Document: Power of attorney from Andries Hudde to Arnoldus van Hardenberg and Pieter Cornelissen to sell a plantation on Long Island

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_170a

Description

Power of attorney. Andries Hudde to Arnoldus van Hardenbergh and Peter Cornelissen, to sell his plantation on Long island, opposite the island of Manhattan. [1647]

Document Date

1647-09-30

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-09-30

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Andries Hudden, commissary at the South River, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Arnoldus van Hardenberch and Piter Cornelisz in his neme to sell and convey all such plantation as the said Mr. Hudden owns, situated on Long Island over against the Manhatans, and that with all the rights granted to him, Hudden, by deed; he, the principal, promising to hold and to cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter by the above mentioned attorney or his substitute, who are to do therein as the principal might or could do were he present. Thus done and signed by the principal, the 30th of September anno 1647, in New Amsterdam.

A. Hudde
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_170a.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.