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Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Pieter Leendersz, trumpeter, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gillis Verbruggen, merchant at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and receive from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and fifty Carolus guilders due the principal by their honors, as appears by the writing executed under date of the 31^st of July 1648 ( and written off on the debit side of his account )^[1]. On payment of said sum by the aforesaid honorable directors to the above named attorney, he shall have power to execute a formal receipt for it, which shall be valid; he, the principal, further holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter aforesaid. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by the principal and by Jacob Kip and Johannes Rodenborch, as witnesses hereto invited, this 27^th of August 1648, in New Netherland.

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Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.