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Power of attorney from Heinrich Heinrichs to Jacob Pergens to collect wages earned in the service of the West India Company on the ship De Princes

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Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland appointed by the General Chartered West India Company, residing in Fort Amsterdam, appeared Hendrick Hendricksz from Eerlant,[1] a soldier, who came out on the ship De Princes for the account of the chamber of Amsterdam and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, the honorable Mr. Jacob Parghens,[2] director of the West India Company, to ask, demand and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber in Amsterdam, the sum of ninety guilders, thirteen stivers and 5 1/3 pennies, earned by the aforesaid Hendrick Hendricksz from their honors on the ship De Princes, as appears by the annexed account. On payment of said sum by their honors to the aforesaid honorable Mr. Jacob Parckens or his substitute, he is empowered to execute a formal receipt therefor, which shall avail their honors as evidence of good payment, he, Hendrick Hendricksz, holding as valid whatever shall be done and transacted in the matter aforesaid by the said honorable Mr. Parghens or his substitute. Thus done and signed in the record by the aforesaid Hendrick Hendricksz, with Jacob Kip and Johannes Rodenborgh as witnesses hereto invited, the 14th of September Anno 1648, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Heinrich Heinrichs
Johannes Rodenborch
Jacob Kip
Cor. van Tienh.

Notes

This place is not Identified. In the index to the Calendar of Dutch MSS., it Is given as Ireland, which is evidently a mistake, as the principal, judging from his signature, was a German.
Jacob Pergens, a merchant of Amsterdam, who was born at Cologne and who died at Amsterdam in 1681. See Johan E. Elias, De Vroedschap van Amsterdam, 1:388.

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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.