Document: Power of attorney from Michiel Messer to Gillis Verbrugge to collect money from the directors of the West India Company

[1]Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary of New Netherland, appeared Michiel Messer from Franckendael,[2] having come over as a soldier In the year 1647 In the Princes, who In the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gillis van Bruggen,[3] merchant at Amsterdam, in his, the principals, name to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors at the chamber of Amsterdam the sum of seventy-two guilders, seventeen stivers, five and 1/3 pennies, earned by him, the principal, from their honors on the ship De Princes, as appears by the account annexed. On payment of the aforesaid sum by the above named directors to Mr. van Bruggen, he is empowered to execute therefor a receipt in due form, which shall be valid; he, Michiel Msser, further promising to approve whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by his above named attorney or his substitute. Thus done and signed in the record by the principal in the presence of Jacob Kip and [ ], witnesses hereto invited, this 26th of August 1648, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Michiel Messer
Jacob Kip