Document: Power of attorney from Jacob Stoffelsen to Symon Dircksen Pos to receive money due to him from the West India Company

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_162m

Description

Power of attorney. Jacob Stoffelsen, to collect money due them since director Van Twiller's time. [1647]

Document Date

1647-08-08

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-08-08

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jacob Stoffelsen from Ziericksee,[1] who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Symon Dircksen Pos to ask, demand and receive in his name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company the sum of two hundred and ninety-one guilders, which sum is due to him by balance from their honors, as is to be seen on the books kept in the time of the former director, Twiller, which money Claes Jacobsz at Schagen was authorized to receive and which two hundred and ninety-one guilders he is now advised remain yet unpaid. On payment of said money by the honorable directors to the above named Symon Pos, he is authorized to give a receipt therefor, [ the principal ] holding valid whatever shall be done in the matter by Symon. Thus done and signed in the record by Jacob Stoffelsz in the presence of Michiel Jansz and Jacob Kip, witnesses hereto invited, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 8th of August anno 1647.

Jacob Stoffelsen
Machghyel Jansz
Jacob Hendr. Kip
Cornelis van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Zierikzee, a city on the island of Schouwen, province of Zealand, Netherlands; not “Lake of Zurich,” as given by B. Fernow in Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N.Y., 14:18.

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_162m.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.