RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 5
[Draft on Kiliaen van Rensselaer in favor of the skipper
of the ship Coninck David]
[4b] I, [the undersigned, Anthony de Hooges], hereby [acknowledge that this day, date
underwritten, I] have [received from skipper Jop Arentsen], dry and in good condition, all the
goods shipped by Mr. Kiliaen van Rensselaer in [the ship Coninck] Davit, for the freight of
which there shall be paid by the said Mr. [Rensselaer] to the above named Jop Arentsen the sum
of [eight?] hundred and sixty-eight guilders, according to the bill of lading signed by the above
named Jop Arentsen. The aforesaid Mr. Renselaer shall pay for the board of Antony de Hogens,
Jan [Ver]beeck, his wife, child and maid, Geertjen Nannex, her son and little daughter, Lucas
Smits from Coerlant 10 and Jan Tenessen what is due to the skipper, to wit, for the ten above
mentioned persons, each one hundred and twenty-six days, from the 23rd of July 1641, when
they came on board the ship, to the 29th of November last, when they landed at the Manhatans in
New Netherland, at 7 stivers each per day, amounting in all to four hundred and forty-one
guilders, and thirty-three guilders for freight of the chests of the people, according to
Lincklaer’s 11 signature. All this without fraud. In testimony whereof this is signed by Antony de
Hooge and the witnesses hereto invited. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 7th of
January 1642.
Maurits Janse, witness
Antony de Hooges
[Power of attorney from Rev. Everardus Bogardus to Wouter van Twiller
to collect money from Jacobus van Curler]
[5] [This day, date under]written, [before me, Cornelis van] Tienhoven, secretary [in New
Netherland for the General Chartered West India Company], appeared Everardus Bogardus,
minister here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appointed and empowered, as he
hereby does appoint and empower, the Hon. Mr. Wouter van Twiller, late director general of
New Netherland, in his name and on his behalf to collect, demand and receive from Mr. Jacob
van Curler the sum of three hundred and sixty-three Carolus guilders, as appears from the
10 Kurland, in the district of Gumbinen, East Prussia. See Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS, p. 615.
11 J. Lincklaen, a clerk in the warehouse of the West India Company at Amsterdam. See Van Rensselaer Bowier
MSS, p. 567, and facsimile opposite p. 556 of that volume, where the name has been printed as Eincklaen.
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