Document: Power of attorney from Claes Jansen to Govert Aertsen to collect wages from the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_160h
Description

Power of attorney. Claes Jansen, baker, to Govert Aertler, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company. [1647]

Document Date
1647-07-26
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-07-26
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Claes Jansen from Emden, baker, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Govert Aertsen to demand, collect and receive in his, the principal’s, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of seven hundred and eleven guilders, four stivers, four pennies,[1] earned from their honors by the principal in New Netherland by baking, according to the account hereto annexed. On payment of the said sum by the honorable directors above named, the aforesaid Govert Aertsen from Purmerent, or his substitute, may execute a discharge, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding further as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the premises by the aforesaid Govert Aertsen, or his agent. Thus done and signed in the record by Claes Jansz in the presence of Jacob Kip and Symon Dircksen Pos, as witnesses hereto invited, the 26th of July anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Claes Jansen
Jacob H. Kip
Symon Dircxsz Pos

Translation Superscripts
[1]: This amount is substituted for “six hundred and sixty-two guilders, seventeen stivers.”
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_160h.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
Govert Aertsen (ID: 1609,000,023)
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Govert Aertsen
To Party 1 Entity
Individual
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Claes Jansen
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
160h
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11343