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Acknowledged before me,
Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 56
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
Marinnis Adriiasen
[Substitution by Jan Hendricksen Cant of Hendrick van Dyck
as attorney of Pieter Verlet and company]
[34a] [Before] me, Cornelis van Tienh[oven, secretary] in New Netherland appointed by the
General Chartered [West India Company, appeared Jan Hendricksen] Cant, as attorney of the
honorable Pieter Verlet and company, who by virtue and authority of the power of attorney given
to him and brought with him 71 declares that he empowers and substitutes in his place Mr. Hendric
van Dyc, ensign of the honorable Company here, in his name to collect and demand from
Cornelis Tonissen, Lubbert Gysbertsen, Pieter Cornelissen, Harman Meyndersen and Arent van
Curler all such sums of money as are due to him, Jan Kant, according to the obligations signed by
the above named persons; he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done herein by his
attorney, who on receipt of the money may execute a discharge, which shall likewise be valid, and
if the case require it sue the aforesaid persons and proceed in due form and either as plaintiff or
defendant prosecute the case to the end, with power also, if necessary, to substitute another person
in his place with equal or limited authority. Thus done and signed the 27th of September anno
1642, in Fort Amsterdam.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Bond of Thomas Baxter and John Oyen
as sureties for John Brent]
Jan Hendryck Cant
[34b] [Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven], appointed secretary [in New Netherland], appeared
[Thomas Backster and John Oyen], who [in the presence of the] fiscal and T[homas Willett, as
witnesses hereto invited], voluntarily bind [themselves], as they do hereby, each one as surety
71 From Holland.
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute