Document: Power of attorney from Paulus van der Beeke to Jeronimus La Croix, Jr, to collect money from the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Paulus vander Beeke, of Bremen, who sailed out in the ship De Vergulde Snoeck[1] and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appointed and empowered, as he does hereby, Jeronimus La Croix, the younger[2], at Amsterdam, to demand and collect in his name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of four hundred and thirteen guilders, eighteen stivers, five pennies due to him, Paulus vander Beeke, by the above mentioned gentlemen, as appears by the three accounts hereto annexed, earned by him on the island of Curacao and the yacht Neptunes; which sum aforesaid being received by Jeronimus La Croix from the honorable directors he may execute a receipt, which shall be valid before all courts, tribunals and judges, he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be transacted and done in the matter by the aforesaid attorney, who is to do all that the principal might or could do were he personally present. In witness whereof the original hereof in the record is signed by Paulus vander Beeke and by Adriaen van Tienhoven and Willem de Key, as witnesses hereto invited. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 13th of September A°. 1644.

Pawlus Van der Becke
Adriaen van Tienhouen
Willem de Key