Document: Power from Tieleman Willekens to Adriaen van der Donck, to appear as his attorney before the court of the director and council and defend a suit brought by the fiscal

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Mr. Tielman Willekens, merchant of the ship De Jonge Prins van Deenmarcken. who, being sued at law before the honorable director general and council of New Netherland by the honorable Fiscal van Dyck and others, declares that he constitutes and appoints Mr. Adriaen vander Donck his attorney to defend and settle in or out of court the cases of the said Tielman and his masters; also, to observe all terms of court either as plaintiff or defendant and to prosecute the cases to the end, to hear judgment pronounced and further to do and to act herein and in all the appearer's other suits which during his sojourn here may be brought before the court as the cases may require and demand, except the suit against his crew which is at present pending before the court. He, the principal, promises to hold and to cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and performed by the said Mr. Verdone in his, the principal's, affairs. Done in New Amsterdam the 29th of December 1648.

Thieleman Willekens