Document: Power of attorney from Egbert van Borsum to his brother Cornelis van Borsum to collect wages due him by the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_161e
Description

Power of attorney. Egbert van Borsum to his brother, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1647]

Document Date
1647-08-02
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-08-02
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Egbert van Borsum, master of the yacht Prins Willem, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, his brother Cornelis van Borsum, mirror maker, residing in the sign of the Gilded Mirror on Egelantier’s canal at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and collect from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of seven hundred and forty-seven guilders, eighteen stivers, eight pennies, as appears by the Book of Monthly Wages, No. F, and the annexed account, which above mentioned sum the principal earned of the said directors in New Netherland. The attorney may execute a receipt in due form, which shall be valid, he, the principal, promising to hold valid and to cause to be held valid all that his aforesaid brother and attorney, or his substitute, shall do and perform in the matter aforesaid. Thus done and signed in the record by Egbert van Borsum in the presence of Jacob Hendricksz Kip and Jan Domen, witnesses hereto invited, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of August anno 1647.

Egbert van Borsum
Jacob Hendricksz Kip
Jan Doomen

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_161e.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 Text Unlinked
Cornelis van Borsum
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Egbert van Borsum
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
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
161e
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11352