Translation
Power of attorney from Andries Hudde to Arnoldus van Hardenberg and Pieter Cornelissen to sell a plantation on Long Island
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Andries Hudden, commissary at the South River, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Arnoldus van Hardenberch and Piter Cornelisz in his neme to sell and convey all such plantation as the said Mr. Hudden owns, situated on Long Island over against the Manhatans, and that with all the rights granted to him, Hudden, by deed; he, the principal, promising to hold and to cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter by the above mentioned attorney or his substitute, who are to do therein as the principal might or could do were he present. Thus done and signed by the principal, the 30th of September anno 1647, in New Amsterdam.
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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