Translation
Power of attorney from Jan Jansen to Wyntjen Pieters to collect his wages earned on board the ship Neptunes
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhov[ en ], secretary in New Netherland, appointed by the General Chartered West India Company, appeared Jan Jansen Jongen,[1] from Amsterdam, who empowers, as he hereby does, Wyntjen Pieter[ s ], residing at Amsterdam, to demand and receive for him from the honorable directors of the said Company the sum of eighty-four guilders, two stivers, ten farthings, due him [ by ] the said gentlemen by balance of a certain account hereto annexed, signed by Hendric Gerritsen and Gillis Rost van Ceulen, which sum he earned on board the ship Neptunes. Said sum being paid to her, the attorney, she may execute a receipt which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding further as valid whatever shall be done herein by her. In testimony whereof this is signed by the above named Jan Jansen [ and by ] Adriaen van Tienh[ oven ] and Maurits Jansen, as witnesses hereto invited. Done the 11th of [September anno 1642 in] New Netherland.2
References
Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (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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