{"id":463,"date":"2014-07-05T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/?p=463"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:04:14","slug":"dutch-notaries-new-netherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Notaries in New Netherland, 1626-1664"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/#Dutch_Notaries_in_New_Netherland_1626-1664\" >Dutch Notaries in New Netherland, 1626-1664<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/#New_Amsterdam\" >New Amsterdam<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/#New_Netherland_Notarial_Records\" >New Netherland Notarial Records<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/#New_Sweden\" >New Sweden<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/dutch-notaries-new-netherland\/#New_York\" >New York<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dutch_Notaries_in_New_Netherland_1626-1664\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/New-Amsterdam-New-Netherland-320x200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4025\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/wp-content\/uploads\/New-Amsterdam-New-Netherland-320x200.jpg\" alt=\"New Amsterdam New Netherland\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Dutch Notaries in New Netherland, 1626-1664<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong>Colonial America<\/strong>, after the <strong>Pilgrims<\/strong> arrived in 1620, the first notaries were in <strong>New England<\/strong> colonies in <strong>Connecticut<\/strong> and <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong>.\u00a0 For 38 years, there were also <strong>Dutch notaries<\/strong> in <strong>New Netherland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notaries in <strong>New England<\/strong> followed notary laws based on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/english-common-law-notaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English common law<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Eventually, English law spread across the country and formed the foundation for state notary laws that were written later, after the <strong>American Revolution<\/strong> of <strong>1776<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/louisiana-notary-powers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisiana notary law<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is based on <strong>French law<\/strong> known as the <strong>Napoleonic Code<\/strong>.\u00a0 In <strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>, notary law is based on <strong>Spanish law<\/strong>.\u00a0 French law and Spanish law are based on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/roman-law-influence-on-notaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roman law<\/a><\/strong><\/span> because the Romans conquered Europe and brought Roman law with them.\u00a0 The Romans also brought Roman law to the <strong>Dutch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_Amsterdam\"><\/span>New Amsterdam<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1626, the <strong>Dutch West India Company<\/strong> established the colony of <strong>New Netherland<\/strong>, along the <strong>Hudson River<\/strong>, which remained in Dutch hands until it surrendered to the British in 1664.\u00a0 <strong>New Amsterdam<\/strong> was the capital.\u00a0 There were notaries in <strong>New Netherland<\/strong>, who followed <strong>Dutch-Roman law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notary records show the notaries were appointed by the Director-General and high Council of the colony, residing in New Amsterdam. Notaries kept original notarized documents in their office records. They made copies of original documents as needed and attested that upon comparison the copies were found to agree with the originals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some examples of documents notarized by Dutch notaries, translated into English, are found in <strong><em>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York<\/em><\/strong>, published by Weed, Parsons and Company in Albany in 1881.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_Netherland_Notarial_Records\"><\/span>New Netherland Notarial Records<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Dutch law and custom, until the 1680s, wills were probated by notaries. Wills were not required to be recorded in a public archive.\u00a0 Notaries kept wills and other original legal documents such as marriage contracts, guardianships, letters of apprenticeship, powers of attorney, contracts, and conveyances in their personal custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some notarial records of persons in New Netherland ended up at the old Amsterdam Municipal Archives. The Noord Amerika Chronologie (North American Chronology) is a 5,000 card index to notarial records of the city of Amsterdam from 1598\u20131750. It contains information about persons in New Netherland including the old world place of origin of immigrants. The collection is available on microfilm at the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysl.nysed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York State Library<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_Sweden\"><\/span>New Sweden<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dutch records include interactions with Swedish intruders, first led by Commander <strong>Peter Minuit<\/strong>, arriving with 50 colonists in two ships, Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip, in March 1638. They built new forts and captured Dutch forts in their claimed colony of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/new-sweden-colony-delaware-river-1638-1655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Sweden<\/a><\/strong><\/span> along the South River (Delaware River) in areas previously claimed by the Dutch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swedes surrendered following the Dutch capture of Fort Casimir and Fort Christina in 1655 in a military expedition led by the Director-General of New Netherland <strong>Peter Stuyvesant<\/strong>.\u00a0 They stayed on to live in New Netherland but kept their Swedish customs.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_York\"><\/span>New York<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1664, the <strong>British<\/strong> acquired the <strong>Dutch colony<\/strong> and it was renamed <strong>New York<\/strong> and the capital was renamed from <strong>New Amsterdam<\/strong> to <strong>New York<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Dutch notaries were replaced with notaries who followed <strong>English law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some geographic names, such as <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>, and some words in our vocabulary, such as boss and cookie, are from the <strong>Dutch language<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Presidents Roosevelt<\/strong> and <strong>Van Buren<\/strong> were of Dutch descent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The colors of the <strong>Dutch flag<\/strong> are still used for the flags of New York City and Albany, and in the colors of sports team uniforms, for the New York Mets baseball team, New York Knickerbockers basketball team, and New York Islanders hockey team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under Dutch rule, women enjoyed legal, civil, and economic rights that were denied under British rule in their colonies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the <strong>Dutch notaries<\/strong> are long gone, <strong>Roman civil law<\/strong> once influenced Dutch notaries in the colony of <strong>New Netherland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Image credit<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThe Fall of New Amsterdam, artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Description: Print shows Peter Stuyvesant, in 1664, standing on shore among residents of New Amsterdam who are pleading with him not to open fire on the British who have arrived in warships waiting in the harbor to claim the territory for England. Postcard published by The Foundation Press, Inc., 1932. 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Louisiana notary law is based on French law known as the Napoleonic Code.\u00a0 In Puerto Rico, notary law is based on Spanish law.\u00a0 French law <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[920,12],"tags":[747,484,737,746,491,490,744,740,738,745,5,739,741,743,742],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notary-history","category-notary-law","tag-civil-law","tag-common-law","tag-dutch","tag-dutch-language","tag-french-law","tag-louisiana","tag-new-amsterdam","tag-new-england","tag-new-netherland","tag-new-york","tag-notary","tag-pilgrims","tag-puerto-rico","tag-roman-law","tag-spanish-law","has_thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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