Translation
Power of attorney from Michael Kaiser to the wife of Jacob Jacobsen Roy to receive money due him by the West India Company
[ Before ] me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary [ in ] New Netherland appointed [ by the ] General Chartered West India Company, [ appeared ] Michiel Keyser from Leyden, who sailed in the year 1637 from Amsterdam on the ship Swol, and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appointed and empowered, as he does hereby, Fokeltje Willems, wife of Jacob Jacobsen Roy, gunner here, to demand and collect for him from the honorable directors of the West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of thirty-six guilders earned by him on the island of Curaçao, as appears by the account hereto annexed; having received the money she, the attorney, may give acquittance for the payment, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done and performed herein by his aforesaid attorney. In witness whereof he has signed this in the record together with Maurits Jansen and Ad. van Tien[ hoven ], witnesses hereto invited. Done the 1st of September anno 1642 in New Netherland.
References
Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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