RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 297
aforesaid attorney. Furthermore, if the case require it, he, the attorney, may substitute one or more
persons in his place who with the attorney shall have power to sue and plead at law before all such
judges as the necessity and circumstances of the case may demand; to prosecute the case to the
end, either as plaintiff or defendant; to hear judgment pronounced and to appeal therefrom; acting
in all things as they, Frans Bruyn and Jan Porter, could or might do were they present, even
though the case should require fuller and further authority snd orders. Thus done and signed in the
record by Frans Bruyn and Jan Porter, with Jacob Hendricksen Kip and Laurens van Heusden 356
as witnesses hereto invited, the 3rd of August anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
This is the F B mark of Frans Bruyn, made by himself
This is the mark of Jan Porter, made by himself
Laurens van Heusden
Jacob H. Kip, witness
[Power of attorney from Captain Johan de Fries to Michiel Jansen and
Symon Joosten to look after his free Negroes during his absence]
[162j] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Captain Johan
de Fries, who appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Michiel Jansz and Symon Joosten, both
inhabitants here, to have supervision over the principal’s free Negroes and Brasilian woman during
his absence and to see that they are justly treated 357 until such time as the aforesaid Jan de Vries
shall wish to make other disposition in the matter. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the
3rd of August anno 1647.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
J: Freis
[Protest of Jan Laurensen Appel, attorney of Isbrant Dircksen Goethart, to the curators of the
estate of the late Seger Tonissen for non-payment of a bond, with the answer thereto]
356 The name of “Johannes van der Burch” is crossed out and “Laurens van Heusden” is substituted.
357 The words “to have supervision over … and to see that they are justly treated” are substituted for “to take, put to
work, or to board and lodge with others, as they, the attorneys, shall see fit.”
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