Category: Notary History
Notaries Public Act of 1850 The Notaries Public Act of 1850 is found in the Statutes at Large, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Chapter LII, An Act to authorize Notaries …
History of the Oath, 930 AD The word oath comes from Anglo-Saxon. Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 AD, and the first King of England …
Notary School of Bologna, Renaissance Italy, 1228 In 1228 AD, before the Renaissance began, the Notary School of Bologna, Scuola di Notariato, started in Bologna, in northern Italy. The school developed …
Notaries in Ancient Phoenicia, 1500 BC Ancient Phoenicia was located in the region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenician city-states, ruled by kings (high priests), began …
Notaries in the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846 The Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico, modeled after the one written by Thomas Jefferson, creating the Republic of Texas, was enacted …
Notarized Testimonial, Medicine Advertising, 1898 In an interview, Adam Van Gundy, justice of the peace and first president of the board of trustees in Bluffs, Illinois, made a product …
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 …
Spanish Notaries with Pizarro, Inca Peru, 1532 Spanish notary Francisco Lopez de Jerez was secretary and notary for conquistador Francisco Pizarro and wrote the True Account of the Conquest of …
Notaries in Ancient Greece, 360 BC In Ancient Greece, there were several types of public officials in Greek city-states who performed document writing, witnessing and record keeping duties. They …
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. …
Notary History Timeline Our Colorado Notary Blog includes a growing collection and reference library of articles on the history of writing, seals, scribes, and notary history. Many of our …
Coronado Expedition, Muster Roll, 1540 Spanish law required official records to be kept by conquistadors, including the Francisco Vazquez (Vasquez) de Coronado Expedition of the American Southwest in 1540. …
First Thanksgiving, El Paso, Texas, 1598 One settler wrote about their Thanksgiving festival: On 30 April 1598, day of the Ascension of our Lord, at this Rio del Norte, …