Document: Power of attorney from Kreger Pisker to Harmen Jansen to collect money due him from the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Kreger Pisker from Rosenborch, a soldier, who came out on the ship Utrecht [ and ] who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Harmen Jansz to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, at the chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty-seven guilders, six stivers and eight pennies, earned from their honors by the principal in New Netherland asappears by the account annexed and the Book of Monthly Wages, No. F. On payment of the aforesaid sum by the above named attorney or his substitute, he shall have power to execute a discharge in full, which shall be valid; he, Krigier Pisker, further holding as valid whatever shall be transacted or done in the matter aforesaid by the above mentioned attorney or his substitute, who Is to do therein as he might or could do were he present. Thus done and signed by the above named Krigier Pisker and by Johannes Rodenb[ orch ] and Jacob Kip, witnesses hereto invited, this 28th of August A°. 1648, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Kreger Pisker
Jacob Kip
Johannes Rodenborch
Cor. van Tienhoven