Translation
Power of attorney from Gerrit Jansen to Willem de Key to receive money due him by the West India Company
Before[1] me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Gerrit Jansz from Enckhuysen, who sailed in the year [ ] in the ship [ ], for account of the chamber at Amsterdam and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Willem de Key in his, the principal's, name to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and eighty-two guilders net, earned by him, the principal, as gunner on their honors' yacht De Catt, as appears by the accompanying account. On payment of the above mentioned sum by the said directors to the above named Mr. de Key, he shall have power to execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid, he, Gerrit Jansz, holding valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the case above mentioned by his attorney, or his substitute. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Gerrit Jansz with Jacob Kip and [ ] as witnesses hereto invited, this 17th of August, 1648, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.[2]