Document: Power of attorney from Gysbert Op Dyck to Hendrick van Schendel to collect money from Jan Hannes, merchant at Wesel

Before me, Jacob Hendricksz Kip, clerk, in the absence of Cornelis van Tienhoven, the secretary, appeared the worthy Mr. Gysbert op Drck, at present in the honorable Company's service as commissary at the house d'Hoop in New Netherland, who in the presence of and before the undersigned witnesses declared that he constituted and appointed, as he hereby does constitute and appoint, the worthy Hendrick van Schendel, city schoolmaster at Weesel,[1] his attorney to ask, demand, collect and receive in his, the principal's, name, in the capacity aforesaid, from the worthy Jan Hannes, merchant residing at Wesel, the sum of five hundred daelders, with the interest thereof since the year one thousand six hundred and forty-one to the date of payment, as appears by the annexed note. On receipt of this sum by the above named worthy Hendrickis van Schendel, or his order, he shall have power to execute a discharge in full; to substitute one or more persons; if necessary, to institute legal proceedings, in all things doing as the case may further require. He, Mr. Gysbert op Dyck, promises to hold valid whatever shall be done and transacted by the above named, his attorney, or his substitute, in the case aforesaid, even though the matter require more ample and more specific authority than is herein mentioned. Thus done, and the original record hereof signed by the above named Gysbert op Dyck with [ ], as witnesses hereto invited, this 19th of August 1649, in Fort Amsterdam.

Gysbert ope Dyck
Joost Tonis
Adriaen van Tienh[ oven ]