Translation
Power of attorney from Gerrit Douman to Govert Loockermans to collect money from the West India Company due to Jacob Naviere
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Sergeant Gerrit Douman, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby (in virtue of the order granted to said Douman by the director and council of New Netherland, dated the 21st of September 1645),[1] Mr. Govert Loockmans, merchant on the ship De Jager, to demand and collect from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of six hundred and seven guilders, eighteen stivers, twelve pennies, earned by Jacob Naviere, who died here on the 29th of July 1645, as appears by the account annexed; on receipt of which sum by the aforesaid Loockmans, or his substitute, he may execute a discharge therefor, he, Douman, holding as valid whatever Loockmans shall do in the matter above mentioned. Thus done and signed in the record by Gerrit Douman and by Gysbert op Dyc and Adriaen van Tienhoven, as witnesses hereto invited, the 21st of September 1646, in New Netherland at Fort Amsterdam.