Document: Power of attorney from Pieter Jurgens to Elias de Raet to receive money due the late Lieut. Jan Bartram by the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland, appointed by the General Chartered West India Company, appeared Pieter Jurgens, as husband of Catrina Lysingh, widow of the late Jan Bartram, in his life time former commander on the island of Curaçao, who in said capacity constituted, as he does hereby, the worshipful Mr. Elias de Raet [ his attorney ] with power in his name and on his behalf to collect and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one thousand and thirty-four guilders, ten stivers and ten pennies, earned by Jan Bartram during his [ service ] at Curaçao, as appears by the account annexed, which sum is due him by virtue of a certain testament and last will executed by the late Jan Bartram in favor of Catrina Lysinc on the sixth of January last; and when the said Mr. de Raet shall have received and obtained the aforesaid sum from the honorable directors above named, he shall have power to execute a receipt and dispose in all things as time and circumstances may require, in such manner as the principal could or should do, were he present, provided that he, the attorney, shall be bound to render an account of all that is above written to the principal, who with Bastiaen Jansen Crol and Gysbert op Dyck has signed the original hereof. Done the 4th of July anno 1642 in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.

[22c (1)] Copy DR.

Laus Deo anno 1641 [ on the island of Curaçao ]

Johannes Bartram D[ ebit ]

Was signed, Jan Claessen van Campen[ and ] P. Stuyvesant

CR.

[22c (2)] [Laus Deo anno] 1641 on the island of Curaçao [ Credit ]

Pieter Jordensen
Gijsbert op Dijck
Cornelis van Tienhoven