Category: Colorado History
Colorado Territory Notary History Three hundred years before Colorado Territory was formed, the first notaries passed through present-day Colorado in the 1500s. They were royal notaries on horseback who …
Wagon Trains, Contracts, Law 1820-1880 After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, wagon trains or caravans brought pioneer settlers, merchants, missionaries, prospectors, freight and livestock across the Great Plains to …
Fur Traders and Notaries, 1500s to 1800s Before Columbus landed in 1492, there were North American fur traders among the Native American tribes. As Europeans arrived in the New …
Colorado Territory Notary Laws, 1861 Colorado Territory was formed in 1861 from parts of Kansas Territory, Nebraska Territory, New Mexico Territory, and Utah Territory. The territory was formed in response …
Colorado Justice of the Peace, 1859-1962 In Colorado, the office of Justice of the Peace (JP) existed for over 100 years, from 1859 to 1962, when justice of the …
Fort Massachusetts, Fort Garland, John M. Francisco, 1852 In April 1852, two companies of First Dragoons from Fort Union (east of Santa Fe) and one company of Third Infantry, …
Pony Express, 1860-1861 On April 3, 1860, horse riders for the newly formed Pony Express mail delivery service simultaneously left Saint Joseph, Missouri, going west, and San Francisco, California, …
Colorado Territorial Notary, Eugene Weston, 1862 Eugene Weston, a pioneer of southern Colorado, and a territorial notary was born in Bloomfield (now Skowhegan), Maine, Sept. 24, 1835. A remote …
Depredation, Horses Stolen by Indians, 1872 In 1888, Colorado notary John W. Douthit, of Las Animas County, took the sworn statement (affidavit of depredation) of a livestock dealer from …
Notarized Documents of Native Americans, 1800s Following the landing of Columbus in 1492, Spanish explorers in the Southwest, as early as the Coronado Expedition of 1540, met Native Americans. …
Ulibarri Claims Colorado for Spain, 1706 A hundred years before Ulibarri, in 1598, Spanish Conquistador Juan de Onate founded a capital at an Indian Pueblo at San Gabriel, north …
Colorado Day, Statehood August 1, 1876 Colorado Day is an annual observance that commemorates Colorado statehood, and Colorado history. On August 1, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a …
Colorado Notary Reference Documents These notary reference documents contain useful information for Colorado notary education and research. Colorado notary law is the primary source of information. A notary reference …
Colorado State Seal The design and use of the Colorado State Seal is regulated by state law. CRS 24-80-901, Size and Description of Seal The seal of the state …
Notary History: Jefferson Territory 1859 Before Colorado Territory was formed on February 28, 1861, there was Jefferson Territory. Eastern Colorado, west to the Rocky Mountains, was part of Arapahoe …