Document: Power of attorney from Jan Foppen to Gerrit Vastrick to collect wages earned by him in the service of the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Foppen from Haerlem, who came out in the year 1643 as a seaman on the ship Swol, and who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gerrit Vastrick, merchant on the little ship Prins Willem, 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 ninety-three guilders, sixteen stivers, earned by the principal on board the ship Swol; also the sum of ninety-five guilders, six stivers, ten pennies, earned on the yacht De Liefde, as appears by the annexed accounts. On payment of the said moneys by the above mentioned directors to the attorney or his substitute, he shall have power to execute a receipt for the same in due form, which shall be valid; he, the principal, further holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter aforesaid by his above named attorney or his substitute. Thus done and signed in the record by the principal and by Jillis Pietersen and Jacob Kip, as witnesses hereto invited, the 5th of August 1648, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

[ In the margin is written: ] This power of attorney is signed as hereinbefore written on the 5th of August 1648.