Document: Power of attorney from Juriaen Andriessen to Cornelis Coenraetsen to receive money due him by the West India Company

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V3_096a

Description

Power of attorney. Juriaen Andriessen to Cornelis Cornelissen, skipper, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1651]

Document Date

1651-10-10

Document Date (Date Type)

1651-10-10

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Jacob Kip, appointed clerk here, appeared Juryaen Andriesen, at present skipper on the honorable Company's ship Prins Willem, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declared that he appointed and empowered, as he does hereby appoint and empower, Cornelis Coenraetsen, skipper on the ship De Gelderse Blom, at present about to depart for the fatherland, in the principal's name to collect, demand, procure and receive from the honorable directors at the chamber of Amsterdam certain moneys due him earned by the principal in the service of their honors as shown by the account thereof and upon receipt thereof to execute a discharge, which shall serve their honors as proof of good payment, the principal promising that he will hold valid whatever shall be transacted and performed by the said Cornelis Coenraetsen or his substitute in the matter aforesaid. Thus done and executed this 19th of September 1651, at Manhatans in New Netherland.

Jurian Andriesen
W Hoogstraten
F Janssen Outhout

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_V3_096a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.