On this the twenty-third day of August in the year of our Lord 1654, appeared before me Johannes Dyckman, etc., the honorable Gysbert Philipse Velthuysen, ¹ and declared that he had appointed and empowered, as he by these presents does, etc., the honorable Paulus Schrick of Repkouw (who proposes on the first ship to depart from this country to patria), in his, the subscriber's name, and for his behalf, to demand, collect and receive in Holland all such sums of money as are coming to this subscriber from Cornelis Pieterse his father-in-law (behout-vader), dwelling at Velthuysen; with the aforesaid person to settle, liquidate and square accounts and the money of this subscriber on settlement of the accounts to receive, quittance therefore to give, and, further, to do all things therein as if the subscriber in his own person were present, yea, also, to do all those things that the matter specially demands.
    Thus done without craft or guile in Fort Orange, in the presence of Mr. Jacob de Hinsse, chirurgeon, and Claas Hendrickse [Van Schoonhoven], carpenter, as witnesses hereto called and asked, and who have also signed these presents.
                  This is my own hand, GYSBERT PHILLIPSEN.
    As Witnesses:
      J. De Hinsse.
      Claes Hendryckse.

    Which I attest,
                        JOHANNES DYCKMAN.

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    ¹ Gysbert Phillipse probably resided at Esopus. On 25 November, 1659, an order was granted at the request of Cornelis Wynkoop for the appointment of curators over his estate, left at Esopus, he having been murdered by the Indians.--Dutch Manuscripts, XVI. 202.

Source:

Pearson, Jonathan, Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck, I, (1656-1675), Albany, J. Munsell, 1869, p. 190.