Document: Power of attorney from Jacob Luyersen to the wife of Symon Jansen Breet to collect money from the WIC

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_162e
Description

Powers of attorney. Willem de Key and others to divers persons, to receive money due them from 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 Jacob Luyersz from Wageningen,[1] who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Aeltje Symons, wife of Symon Jansen Breet in Amsterdam, in his, the principal’s, name to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty guilders, seven stivers, fourteen pennies earned in New Netherland from their honors by the above named Jacob Luyersen, as per account annexed. Whenever their honors aforesaid shall have paid the said earned monthly wages to the above named Aeltje Symons or her substitute, she or he may execute a receipt therefor. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of August anno 1647.

Jacob Luyersz
Jan Louresen
Jacob H. Kip
Cor. van Tienh.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: The word “Marinhan” is crossed out. Jacob Luyersen, or Luursen, was the ancestor of the Kuykendall family. Wageningen is a village on the Rhine, about 10 miles west of Arnhem, in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands.
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_162e.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
Wife of Symon Jansen Breet
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Jacob Luyersen
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
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
162e
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11359