Appeared before me Johannes La Montagne, in the service, etc., the honorable Francoys Boon, who declared that he had appointed, as by these presents he does appoint and empower, the honorable Johannes Van t'Willer of Newkerck in Gelderland, in his name and in his behalf, to procure [the payment] of a certain bill of exchange passed by Gysbert Philipse Van Velthuysen, upon the appointer [Boon] for the sum of six hundred Carolus guilders in current money, which bill of exchange was, by Cornelis Pietersen Huysman, dwelling at Velthuysen, not accepted and was protested, because Gysbert Philipsen Van Velthuysen had received of the aforementioned Cornelis Pietersen Huysman the value of fifty guilders in money, for which he demands a settlement of him; the aforesaid attorney [van t'Willer is authorized] to procure the payment of said sum of six hundred guilders and to proceed against him [Philipsen] according to law, before competent judges, namely, before the honorable magistrates of the province of Gelderlant, to define sentence, the same to execute or waive, as he shall find good, for the receipt of the aforesaid money acquittance to pass, and in said matter to act as if the appointer himself were present; promising to hold good all that the attorney [Van t'Willer] in this matter shall do without the exception of any privilege or action, on pledge of his person and estate, real and personal, present and future, submitting the same to all laws and judges.
    Done in Fort Orange, the 28th of July, A. D. 1657, in presence of Evert Heedeman.
                   FRANCOOS BOON.
    Eberhardt Hedeman, as witness.
      Johannes Provoost, witness.

    Acknowledged before me,
                        LA MONTAGNE, Deputy at Fort Orange.

Source:

Pearson, Jonathan, Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck, I, (1656-1675), Albany, J. Munsell, 1869, p. 46.