Document: Power of attorney from Tobias Rem to Pieter Cornelissen Prins to collect money from the West India Company

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V3_004f

Description

Power of attorney. Tobias Rem to Peter Cornelissen Prins, to receive money from the same. [1648]

Document Date

1648-08-28

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-08-28

Document Type

Power of Attorney

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Tobias Rem from Leenvoort,[1] a soldier who came out in the ship Salamander [ and ] who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Pieter Cornelisz Prins to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty-eight guilders, nineteen stivers and ten pennies, earned from their honors by the principal in New Netherland, as appears by the annexed account and the Book of Monthly Wages, No. F. On payment of this sum by the honorable directors above mentioned to the aforesaid attorney, he shall have power to execute a receipt in due form therefor, which shall be valid; he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted the matter aforesaid by his attorney aforesaid or his substitute, who is to do in everything as he, Tobias Bern, were he present, could or might do. Thus done and signed in the record by the principal, with Johannes Rodenborch and Jacob Kip, as witnesses hereto invited. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland this 28th of August 1648.

Tobias Rem
Jacob Kip
Cor. van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Perhaps intended for Lemforde, a village on the Dummersee, in Hanover, Germany

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_004f.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.