RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 114
binding ourselves for all the other participants, hereby acknowledge that as part owner and
contributor toward the fitting out of the aforesaid frigate we have accepted and admitted the
person of Jacob Stoffelsen, who has contributed and paid in the sum of three hundred and fifty
guilders, which is received and accepted by us as a just tenth share of the equipment of the
aforesaid frigate, for which we promise to give him, Jacob Stoffelsen, good satisfaction in every
respect, binding to that end our persons and properties and especially the frigate and the
appurtenances thereof. In testimony and token of the truth this is signed. Done the 8th of October
anno 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
Wyllem Albertsoon Blawfelt
Antoni Crol
[Power of attorney from Jan Laurensen to Teunis Jansen to collect debts
due to him and the late Willem Coster]
[75] I, Jan Laurensz, empower Teunes Jansz, sail maker, to demand and collect in my name
from all persons who are indebted to me according to the writing handed to him, Teunes Jansz;
likewise, by virtue of the acte 157 granted me by the director general and council of New
Netherland to collect the balance due to Willem Coster, deceased, and that in such manner as I,
being present myself, could or might do. In testimony whereof this is signed by him the 8th of
October 1643, in New Netherland.
This is the X mark of Davit Waterduve, witness
This is the X mark of Tymen Jansz, witness
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
156 Manuscript destroyed.
157 See letters of administration, dated August 7, 1643, on [69a].
Jan Louresen
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute