[S1172] Arnold J. F. van Laer, translator and annotator, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974), II:471–472, document 163e, "Power of attorney from Dirck Cornelissen from Wensveen to Rev. Everhardus Bogardus to receive money due by the West India Company to Tryn Jonas, his deceased mother-in-law." There is no date; the document is placed between documents dated August 1647.This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Cornelissen from Wensveen, as husband and guardian of Marritjen Jans, daughter of Tryn Jonas from Masterland, in her lifetime midwife here in New Netherland, and in said capacity as heir of the above named Tryn Jonas he, the appearer, declared that he appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Everardus Bogardus, minister, to demand, collect and receive from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of two hundred and forty-five guilders, two stivers, eight pennies, earned in her lifetime by the above named Tryn Jonas of their honors above mentioned, as appears on the Book of Monthly Wages, N°. F, folio seventeen."