RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 289
collect from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Hoorn, the
sum of one hundred and one guilders earned from their honors by him, Dirck Dircksen, in Fort St.
Louis de Marin, 347 as appears by the account hereto annexed. On receipt of said moneys from
their honors by the above mentioned Hendrick Jansen, he may execute a discharge therefor and
release their honors from future claims, and if the above named Hendrick Jansen shall deem it
expedient, he is empowered to substitute another in his place who shall have power to do all things
that the above mentioned Hendrick Jansz or the principal, were he personally present, could or
might do. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of August anno 1647.
Jacob H. Kip, witness
This is the H D mark of Andries Tummelinc, witness
Acknowledged before me,
This is the mark of Dirck Dircksz, made by himself
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Power of attorney from Egbert van Borsum to his brother Cornelis van Borsum
to collect wages due him by the WIC]
[161e] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Egbert van
Borsum, master of the yacht Prins Willem, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints
and empowers, as he does hereby, his brother Cornelis van Borsum, mirror maker, residing in the
sign of the Gilded Mirror on Egelantier’s canal at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and collect from the
honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, the sum of seven
hundred and forty-seven guilders, eighteen stivers, eight pennies, as appears by the Book of Monthly
Wages, No. F, and the annexed account, which above mentioned sum the principal earned of the said
directors in New Netherland. The attorney may execute a receipt in due form, which shall be valid,
he, the principal, promising to hold valid and to cause to be held valid all that his aforesaid brother
and attorney, or his substitute, shall do and perform in the matter aforesaid. Thus done and signed
in the record by Egbert van Borsum in the presence of Jacob Hendricksz Kip and Jan Domen,
witnesses hereto invited, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of August anno 1647.
347 São Luiz de Maranhão, or Maranham, Brazil.
This is the mark of Egbert van Borsum, made by himself
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