Document: Power of attorney from Pieter Hansen to Erick Jansen to collect money earned by him in the service of the West India Company on the island of Curaçao

Before me, Jacob Hendricksz Kip, clerk, in the absence of Cornelus van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared the worthy Pieter Hansz from Amsterdam, sailor in the honorable West India Company's service here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Eerick Jansz from Stockholm to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name, in the capacity aforesaid, from the honorable direotors of the Chartered West India Company, at the chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and ninety-eight guilders, eleven stivers and eight pennies, earned at Curacao by him, the principal, from their honors, as appears by the accompanying account. On payment of this above mentioned sum by their honors to the above named Eerick Jansz, or his order, he shall have power to execute a formal receipt therefor, which shall be valid and release their honors from all future claims; he, Pieter Hansz, promising to hold and to cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and performed in the matter above mentioned by his attorney, or his substitute, who in all things are to do as he, pieter Hansz, could or might do were he present. He requests an authentic instrument hereof Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the above named Pieter Hans and [ ], witnesses hereto invited, this 25th of August 1649, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Pyeter Hansen
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Willem Klock