Document: Power of attorney from Director Stuyvesant to Willem van Lith to collect yearly two months of his pay from the West India Company

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NYSA_A0270-78_V3_116b
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Power of attorney. Director Stuyvesant to William Paulith, of Amsterdam, to collect yearly two months of his pay from the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1654]

Document Date
1654-08-17
Document Date (Date Type)
1654-08-17
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Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Ruyven, appointed secretary in the service of the General Chartered West India Company in New Netherland, and before the hereinafter mentioned witnesses appeared the Hon. Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, Curacao, etc , who appointed and empowered and hereby does appoint and empower the worthy Mr. Willem van Lith, merchant, residing at Amsterdam in Holland, in order in his, the said principal's, name to collect and receive yearly once two months ' pay from the hands of the directors of the honorable West India Company on account of the said principal's earned and still to be earned monthly salary; promising to hold and cause to be held firm, binding and valid whatever shall be done by virtue hereof. Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, this day the 28th of July 1654.

P. Stuyvesant
Cornelis van Tienhoven
La Montangne Junior
Cornelis van Ruyven

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_116b.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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Willem van Lith
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Director Stuyvesant
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