RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 171
[Power of attorney from Adam Brouwer to Geurt Servaessen
to collect wages due from the West India Company]
[141b] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Adam
Brouwer, from Ceulen, a soldier (sailed anno 1641 in the ship Swol to Brazil for the chamber of
Amsterdam), who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Geurt Servasz, at Amsterdam,
[residing] in Papenbrigh alley, in “The Whalebone,” to demand and collect in his name from the
honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, all
such sums of money as are still due to him, Adam Brouwer, by their honors [and were] earned in
Brazil, where he received no settlement, having been ordered to proceed to Marinhan. On
payment of said moneys by the honorable directors, the aforesaid Geurt Servaesz may [in token]
of the receipt execute a discharge, which shall be valid, the principal promising to hold valid
whatever shall be done in the matter aforesaid by the attorney. The original hereof in the record
is signed by Adam Brouwer and the witnesses hereto invited, the 21st of February 1645, in Fort
Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Willem Bredenbent
Pauwlus Van der Becke
Acknowledged before me,
This is the AB mark of Adam Brouwer aforesaid
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Contract of sale from Hendrick Jansen to Adam Brouwer of
a house and garden on Manhattan Island]
[141c] On this day, date underwritten, Hendrick Jansen from Jeveren, locksmith, and Adam
Brouwer have in love and friendship, in the presence of the witnesses hereto invited, agreed and
contracted about the purchase of a certain house and lot for a garden situated on the island of
Manhatans, formerly occupied by Jeuriaen Roodolf. Hendrick Jansen from Jeveren sells the
aforesaid house and lot to Adam Brouwer above mentioned, who also acknowledges that he has
bought the same, with all that is fastened by earth and nail, in true and full ownership, on which
house and garden Adam shall pay within three months from date twenty-five guilders, which
shall be the last payment. In witness and token of the truth this is signed by the parties and the
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