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Before me, Jacob Hendricksz Kip, clerk appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared the worthy Isaack Jansz from Amsterdam, surgeon, lately in the service of the West India Company and at present a freeman here on the eve of his departure, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses again and anew appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Jan Jansz, cheesemonger, to ask, demand, collect and receive in his, the principal's, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company at the Chamber at Amsterdam the sum of one hundred and sixteen guilders, sixteen stivers, earned by him, the principal, from their honors on board the yacht De Fenyn, as appears by the accompanying account, whereof the original and the power of attorney sent to said Jan Jansz, cheesemonger, by the ship De Princes, were lost by shipwreck and destroyed. On receipt of this sum by the attorney, he shall have power to give a receipt in full therefor and to guarantee their honors against any future claim; he, the principal, promising to hold and cause to be held valid whatever shall be done and performed in the matter aforesaid by his attorney or his substitute. He requests an authentic instrument hereof. Thus done and the original hereof in the record signed by Isack Jansz, with [      ], witnesses hereto invited, this 28^th of September 1649, New Amsterdam.

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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.