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Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 236<br />

[Will of Hendrick Jacobsen Patervaer]<br />

[153h] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Hendrick<br />

Jacobsen Patervaer, from Langedyck, 297 who intends to sail to the West Indies on the frigate La<br />

Garce, and as men on such a voyage are exposed to many perils, the aforesaid Hendric Jacobsz<br />

declares that, reflecting on the certainty of death and uncertainty of the hour thereof and wishing<br />

therefore to anticipate all such uncertainty of death by certain testamentary disposition, he, the<br />

testator, therefore gives and bequeaths to Abraham Jansen Schepmoes the sum of three hundred<br />

and eleven guilders, ten stivers, which Jan Jansen Schepmoes, father of the aforesaid Abraham<br />

Jansen, owes to the said Hendrick Jacobsz, as appears by the bond dated the 5th of December<br />

anno 1646; which sum the aforesaid Abraham Jansen, after the decease of the said Patervaer (if<br />

he should die on his West India voyage) shall be authorized to claim from his above mentioned<br />

father and take possession of as his own property. In token of the truth this is signed by Hendrick<br />

Jacobsen and by Arnoldus van Hardenbergh and Adriaen van Tienhoven as witnesses hereto<br />

invited, the 6th of December 1646, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.<br />

Adriaen van Tienhoven, witness<br />

Arnoldus van Hardenberch, witness<br />

This is the X mark of Hendric Jacobsen, made by himself<br />

Acknowledged before me,<br />

Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary 298<br />

[Power of attorney from Abraham Martensen to Jan Willemsen Bos<br />

to collect wages from the West India Company]<br />

[153i] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Abraham<br />

Martensen, from Amsterdam, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and<br />

empowers, as he does hereby, Jan Willemsen Bos in his, the principal’s, name to demand and<br />

collect from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at<br />

Amsterdam, the sum of one hundred and forty guilders, earned by the principal on board the ship<br />

T’Amandare. On payment of this sum by their honors to the attorney he, Jan Willemsen Bos,<br />

may execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding valid whatever<br />

297 Langendyck, a village near Alkmaar, province of North Holland.<br />

298 The will is canceled in the record.<br />

New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute

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