Document: Power of attorney from Gillis Jansen Pompoen to [ ] to receive money due him from the West India Company

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Gillis Jansen Pompoen, late farm servant in the employ of the Chartered West India Company at the house De Hoop, to the north, on the Fresh River, and at present a freeman, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, [ ] [1] to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and ninety-one guilders, two stivers, twelve pennies, earned during the administration of the honorable Mr. Kieft, and seventy-three guilders, ten stivers, earned from the first of July 1647 to the 7th of August A°. 1648, as appears by the accompanying accounts, amounting together to the sum of two hundred and sixty-four guilders, twelve stivers, twelve pennies On payment of this sum by their honors to the attorney, he is authorized to execute a formal receipt in full therefor and to guarantee against future claims; he, the principal, holding as valid all that shall be done and performed in the case above mentioned by his above named attorney or his substitute. Thus done and signed in the record by Gillls Jansz Pompoen, in the presence of Adriaen van Tienhoven and Jacob Kip as witnesses hereto invited, the 28th of September A°. 1648, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Gillis Jansz Pompoen
Jacob Kip
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Cor. van Tienhoven