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Power of attorney from Harck Sybesen to Claes Jansen Calff to receive moneys from the West India Company

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Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Harck Sybesen from Langedyck,[1] ship carpenter, who before and in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Claes Jansen Calff to ask, demand and collect in his, the principal’s, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty-three guilders, fourteen stivers, eight pennies due him, the principal, and earned in New Netherland, as appears by the Book of monthly wages, No. F, folio 23. On receipt of said moneys from their honors by Claes Jansen Calff he shall have power to grant a discharge therefor, which shall be valid, [ the principal ] holding as valid whatever shell be done and transacted in the matter by the aforesaid attorney. The original hereof in the record is signed by Harck Sybesen and the witnesses, the 17th of July anno 1647, in New Netherland.

Harck Sybetsen
Jacob H. Kip
David Provoost
Cornelis van Tienhoven
Langedyck is a small village near Heereveen, in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. Harck Sybesen, or Siboutsen, was one of the early settlers of Newtown, L.I. See Rate List of Newtown, 1675, in Doc. Hist. N.Y., 2:466. See also James Riker, Jr., Annals of Newtown, p. 36, where he is erroneously given as “a native of Languedoc, in the south of France.” His sons moved to Westchester county and assumed the name of Krankheyt, afterwards corrupted to Kronkhite and Cronkhite.

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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.