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Gysbert op e Dyck }
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Adriaen van Tienhoven }
Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 209
[Power of attorney from Adam Brouwer to Govert Loockermans
to receive money due him by the West India Company]
[149j] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Adam
Brouwer, from Cologne, a soldier who sailed for the Chamber of Amsterdam to Brazil in the year
1641, in the ship Swol, of which ship Willem de Haes was merchant, and who in the presence of
the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Govert Loockmans,
merchant on the ship De Jager, to demand and collect and receive from the honorable directors
of the General Chartered West India Company one hundred and eighty-nine guilders, earned by
him, Adam Brouwer, of their honors at Fort St. Louis de Marinhan, as appears by the account
annexed; on payment of which sum by the honorable directors to the above mentioned
Loockmans, he is empowered to give a receipt therefor which shall avail. He, the principal,
promises to hold and cause to be held valid whatever shall be done in the matter by his attorney.
Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 21st of September 1646. The original record
hereof was signed by Adam Brouwer and by Adriaen van Tienhoven and Gysbert Opdyc as
witnesses.
This is the X mark of Adam Brouwer, made by himself
Gysbert op Dyck }
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Adriaen van Tienhoven }
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Power of attorney from Cornelis Cornelissen Backer to Jan Laurensen Appel
to collect money due him in New Netherland]
[149k] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Cornelis
Cornelissen Backer, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Jan Laurensen, from Graft,
in his, the principal’s, name and absence to ask, demand and collect here in New Netherland all
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