RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 279
[Power of attorney from Lucas Gerritsen to Nicolaes van Lit|
to receive moneys from the WIC]
[160a] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Luyckas
Gerritsz from Amsterdam, who sailed as a mariner in the year 1646 on the ship De Princes,
Captain Jelmer Tomasz, [master], for the account of the chamber of Amsterdam, and who
appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Nicolaes van Lit, at Amsterdam, to ask and
receive in the principal’s name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India
Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of fifty-seven guilders, two stivers, earned by him, the
principal, on the ship De Princes, as appears by the annexed account. On payment of the aforesaid
sum by the said honorable directors to the attorney, he or his substitute is empowered to grant a
receipt therefor in due form, which shall avail their honors as good payment. He, the principal,
promises to hold and to cause to be held valid all that his aforesaid attorney or his substitute shall
do and perform in the matter, they to do therein as he, were he present, could or might do. Thus
done and signed by the principal in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. Done the 22nd of June
anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Jacob Hendricksz Kip, witness
Adriaen van Tienhoven, witness
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
By me, Luycas Geere[tsen]
[Bond of Fredrick Lubbertsen for the payment of money
disbursed by Cornelis van Tienhoven
[160b] I, the undersigned, Frederick Lubberssen, inhabitant of the island of Manhatans, hereby
acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors that I am well and truly indebted to Cornelis van
Tienhoven, at present secretary in New Netherland, in the sum of nine hundred Carolus guilders for
disbursed and advanced moneys received by me to my content and satisfaction before the execution
hereof. I therefore promise to tender and pay the aforesaid sum to the above mentioned Tienhoven
or his order, free of costs and charges, in three installments, to wit: anno 1648, on the 22nd of July,
three hundred guilders; anno 1649, on the 22nd of July, three hundred guilders; and anno 1650, on
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