Tag: Bent’s Fort
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
La Salle Expedition, Louisiana Territory, 1682 Jacques de La Metairie was a royal notary at Fort Frontenac, New France, (now Kingston, Ontario) acting under a royal commission, granted in …
Bent’s Fort, Colorado 1842 One of the early acts performed by a notary in the days before Colorado Territory was formed in 1861, was a marriage in 1842 at …