Translation
Power of attorney from Dirck Dircksen to Hendrick Jansen to collect wages due him by the West India Company for services in Brazil
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Dircksz from Bremen, who sailed in the year 1639 for the chamber at Hoorn in the ship Groot Hoorn, and who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Hendrick Jansen, tailor, to ask, demand and collect from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Hoorn, the sum of one hundred and one guilders earned from their honors by him, Dirck Dircksen, in Fort St. Louis de Marin,[1] as appears by the account hereto annexed. On receipt of said moneys from their honors by the above mentioned Hendrick Jansen, he may execute a discharge therefor and release their honors from future claims, and if the above named Hendrick Jansen shall deem it expedient, he is empowered to substitute another in his place who shall have power to do all things that the above mentioned Hendrick Jansz or the principal, were he personally present, could or might do. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of August anno 1647.
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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