Document: Power of attorney from Michael Kaiser to the wife of Jacob Jacobsen Roy to receive money due him by the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_029c
Description

Power of attorney. Michael Keyser to Fokeltje Willems, wife of Jacob Jacobsen Roy, to receive money due him by the W. I. Co., at Amsterdam. [1642]

Document Date
1642-09-01
Document Date (Date Type)
1642-09-01
Document Type
Power of Attorney

Translation
Translation

[ Before ] me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary [ in ] New Netherland appointed [ by the ] General Chartered West India Company, [ appeared ] Michiel Keyser from Leyden, who sailed in the year 1637 from Amsterdam on the ship Swol, and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appointed and empowered, as he does hereby, Fokeltje Willems, wife of Jacob Jacobsen Roy, gunner here, to demand and collect for him from the honorable directors of the West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of thirty-six guilders earned by him on the island of Curaçao, as appears by the account hereto annexed; having received the money she, the attorney, may give acquittance for the payment, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done and performed herein by his aforesaid attorney. In witness whereof he has signed this in the record together with Maurits Jansen and Ad. van Tien[ hoven ], witnesses hereto invited. Done the 1st of September anno 1642 in New Netherland.

Michiel Kaiser
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Maurits Janse
Cornelis van Tienh.

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_029c.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 Jacob Jacobsen Roy
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Michael Kaiser
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
From Party 2
From Party 2 Entity
DWIC - Corporation - Dutch West India Company (DWIC)
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Item
029c
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/10949