Translation
Power of attorney from Hans Fomer to Augustyn Herrman to collect arrears of pay from the West India Company
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Hans Fomer from Hirsvelt,[1] late a soldier and now a freeman, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Augustyn Heerman to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, at the chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of eighty-one guilders, eleven stivers, four pennies, earned by the principal in the service of their honors in New Netherland, as appears by the account annexed. On payment of the aforesaid money by the said honorable directors to the above named attorney or his substitute, he shall have power to execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid; he, Hans Fomer, holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the said matter by the above named attorney or his substitute.Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Hans Fomer above named, with Johannes Hodenborch and Jacob Kip, as witnesses hereto invited, the 31st of August A°. 1648, in New Amsterdam 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.
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