Document: Power of attorney from Isbrant Dircksen Goethart to Hendrick Hendricksen Kip and Jan Jansen Schepmoes to collect debts outstanding in New Netherland

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Isbrant Dircksen Goethart, who in the best manner and form to him possible appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Hendrick Hendricksz Kip and Jan Jansen Schepmoes, both inhabitants of New Amsterdam, either jointly or, in case of absence or death of one or the other of them, individually, to demand, collect and receive all such debts and claims as the said Isbrant Dircksen has outstanding and left here in New Netherland, as more clearly and fully appears by the list thereof handed by Isbrant Dircksz to the attorneys; with power to each of the aforesaid attorneys to execute a receipt in full, to institute legal proceedings if necessary, to hear judgment pronounced and to appeal therefrom, doing in all things what the principal might or could do if he were personally present, even though the case require further and fuller authority that is herein specified. He, Isbrant Dircksz Goethart, promises to hold and cause to be held valid all that shall be done and performed in the premises by the attorneys, saving that the attorneys shall be bound to render an account of their administration. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Isbrant Dircksz Goethart in the presence of Johannes Roodenb[ orch ] and Jacob Kip, as witnesses hereto invited, the 18th of September A° 1648, in New Amsterdam.

Isbrant Dircksz Ghoethart