Document: Power of attorney from Hendrick Egbertsen to Dirck Lambertsen Santlooper to settle the estate of his deceased wife at Haerlem

On this day, the 16th of August of this year 1651, before me, Jacob Kip, clerk appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared the worthy Hendrick Egbertsen van Nieuwenhuys, widower of Printie Arents van Helmon, in her lifetime residing at Haerlem, at present a citizen and inhabitant here, who before and in the presence of the hereinafter named witnesses, after revocation and cancelation of all such power of attorney as he on the 18th of August 1649 made out to Mr. Harmen Hendricksen Drogh, who died before the date hereof, anew appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Dirck Lambersen Santlooper, commissioner of insolvent estates at Haerlem, or in case of his death the person who succeeds in his place, or otherwise the honorable schepens of Haerlem or those whom it may please their honors by virtue hereof to substitute, in the name of him, the principal, and on his behalf to settle, distribute and divide the entire estate of his deceased wife aforesaid, according to the marriage articles which they made with each other; to cause the goods and effects to be sold, to collect the proceeds, to receive his lawful share and to execute a proper receipt therefor, and in case of refusal to proceed at law for the full satisfaction of the matter aforesaid, whether as plaintiff or defendant, to prosecute the case to the end, to hear judgment pronounced, to execute the same and furthermore in everything to do and to act as he, the principal, if he were personally present, might or could do, the principal promising that he will hold and cause to be held as valid whatever shall be done or transacted in the matter aforesaid by one of the aforementioned his attorneys, provided they render a proper account and final statement of their transactions Thus done and executed by the aforesaid principal, who with Abraham Pietersen from Haerlem and Jan Gerritsen Smit, invited hereto as witnesses, has signed the original minute hereof in the record. Actum Manhatans, New Amsterdam in New Netherland, datum ut supra.

Hindrick Egbers
Abraham Pietersen
[ Jan Gerritsen Smit ]
Jacob Kip