RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 37
soldiers, [who] were informers, need not come on board, [but] that he, Gerrit Dircksz, who said
that he was a merchant, had a right to come on board; that five or six times he came to the door
to get near the ensign, but that each time the mate and the crew ordered him to go away,
whereupon Gerrit Dircksz tore the said Ensign van Dyck’s jerkin and rabat, without said ensign
having given him, Gerrit Dircksz, any cause for striking and abusing him. All of which the
deponent declares to be true, offering to confirm the same by oath if necessary and required.
Done the 4th of August 1642.
Pieter Jansen Groe[n]
[Power of attorney from Arent Corsen to Govert Loockemans
to receive certain moneys from David Provoost]
[24a] [Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland, appointed] by the
[General Chartered West] India Company, appeared Arent Corsen, [who in the presence of the
undersigned witnesses], constituted, as he hereby does, [Govert Loockmans his attorney with
power to demand and] collect from Davit Proovoost all such [accounts] as he, the principal, has
outstanding with the [said Provoost, who is] also to render to the above named Loockmans [a
true] statement and account of his doings, and whenever he, Proovoost, shall have rendered to the
attorney a due account and proof of his administration he, Loockmans, shall have power to grant
in the principal’s name and behalf a discharge and quittance; he, Arent Corsen, afore- said holding
as valid what shall be transacted and done herein by Loockmans and in case the matter may
require it the attorney shall have power in the name and behalf of the principal to sue the above
named Proovoost at law and to [prosecute the case to the end], either as plaintiff or defendant, [the
attorney] to have power also to substitute another [person in his place, clothed] with one and the
[same authority]. Thus [done in Fort] Amsterdam, [New Netherland ] anno 1642.
[Power of attorney from Harman Meyndersen van den Boogaert to his brother-in-law
to receive certain moneys in the province of Zeeland]
[24b] [Before me], Cornelis van Tienhoven, [secretary] in New Netherland [appointed by the]
General Chartered [West India C]ompany, [appeared] Harman Meyndersen van den [Bogaert],
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute