RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 293
[Power of attorney from Gerrit Hendricksen to Gerrit Arentsen to collect wages earned
by him as a soldier in the service of the WIC in New Netherland]
[162d] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Gerrit
Hendricksz from Holden 350 or Hoepten, late a soldier, now a freeman, who in the presence of the
undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Gerrit Arentsen, merchant
at Amsterdam, to ask, demand and receive in his name from the honorable directors of the
Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of three hundred and forty-five
guilders, eight stivers and eight pennies earned by him in New Netherland, as more fully appears
by the account annexed. On payment of which moneys by their honors to the above named Gerrit
Arentsz, or his attorney, he shall have power to guarantee their honors against future claims. Thus
done and signed by Gerrit Hendricksz in the presence of Jacob Kip [and ],
witnesses hereto invited, the 2nd of August anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland.
[Power of attorney from Jacob Luyersen to the wife of Symon Jansen Breet
to collect money from the WIC]
[162e] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jacob Luyersz
from Wageningen, 351 who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Aeltje Symons, wife of
Symon Jansen Breet in Amsterdam, in his, the principal’s, name to ask, demand and receive from
the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of
one hundred and fifty guilders, seven stivers, fourteen pennies earned in New Netherland from their
honors by the above named Jacob Luyersen, as per account annexed. Whenever their honors
aforesaid shall have paid the said earned monthly wages to the above named Aeltje Symons or her
substitute, she or he may execute a receipt therefor. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland,
the 2nd of August anno 1647.
Jan Louresen }
}witnesses
Jacob H. Kip }
This is the X mark of Jacob Luyersz, made by himself
350 Perhaps intended for Holten, a village in the province of Overijssel, about 12 miles east of Deventer. Not
unlikely, the former soldier was the same person as Gerrit Hendricksen from Deventer, who in May 1646 married at
New Amsterdam Marie Lamberts, spinster, born in New Netherland.
351 The word “Marinhan” is crossed out. Jacob Luyersen, or Luursen, was the ancestor of the Kuykendall family.
Wageningen is a village on the Rhine, about 10 miles west of Arnhem, in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands.
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