Document: Power of attorney from Pieter Leendersen to Gillis Verbrugge to collect money from the West India Company

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V3_004c

Description

Power of attorney from Michiel Messer to Gillis Verbrugge to collect money from the directors of the West India Company. [1648];Power of attorney. Peter Leendertsen to Gillis Verbrugge, to receive money due him by the W. I. Company at Amsterdam. [1648]

Document Date

1648-08-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-08-27

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Pieter Leendersz, trumpeter, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gillis Verbruggen, merchant at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty Carolus guilders due the principal by their honors, as appears by the writing executed under date of the 31st of July 1648 ( and written off on the debit side of his account )[1]. On payment of said sum by the aforesaid honorable directors to the above named attorney, he shall have power to execute a formal receipt for it, which shall be valid; he, the principal, further holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter aforesaid. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the principal and by Jacob Kip and Johannes Rodenborch, as witnesses hereto invited, this 27th of August 1648, in New Netherland.

Pieter Leendersz
Jacob Kip
Cor. van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts

[1]: The words in parentheses are substituted in the margin for "by Mr. Stuyvesant," which words are canceled.

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_V3_004c.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.