Translation
Power of attorney from Director Stuyvesant to Willem van Lith to collect yearly two months of his pay from the West India Company
Before me, Cornelis van Ruyven, appointed secretary in the service of the General Chartered West India Company in New Netherland, and before the hereinafter mentioned witnesses appeared the Hon. Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, Curacao, etc , who appointed and empowered and hereby does appoint and empower the worthy Mr. Willem van Lith, merchant, residing at Amsterdam in Holland, in order in his, the said principal's, name to collect and receive yearly once two months ' pay from the hands of the directors of the honorable West India Company on account of the said principal's earned and still to be earned monthly salary; promising to hold and cause to be held firm, binding and valid whatever shall be done by virtue hereof. Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, this day the 28th of July 1654.
References
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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