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New Netherland & New York Genealogy New Netherland Settlers Books now available!: Ships Passenger Lists to New York 500 voyages to and from New Netherland (New York) Cemetery Records (Cemetery, Obits) Census Records Church Records (B, D, M) City Directories Land & Mortgage Records Military Records Wills & Probate Records New Netherland History Ancestor Signatory hand marks Translation of words in Church records Understanding Patronymics Dutch Names & Nicknames Glossary of Dutch Words Ancient Dutch Occupations New Netherland Settlers 17th Century Ancestor Registry Dutch & English translations for Occupations Life in 17th Century Amsterdam Online Books Research in the Netherlands Miscellaneous Genealogy [ Mailing Lists] [Societies & Journals] [Dictionary & Definitions] [Olive Tree Library] [Help] [Links] New Netherland Signatory Handmarks One of the very interesting items found about Dutch ancestors is that they often used handmarks, or signatory marks. A handmark is a representation of a signature, used when an individual cannot write his or her name. Handmarks range from a very simple X to a stylized letter (often the first letter of the first or last name of the individual) to very elaborate designs. Some of the handmarks I have chosen to publish here on the New Netherland section of Olive Tree Genealogy are few from "Papers Relating to the Condition of New Netherland" dating from 1643-1647 as found in Vol. 1 of Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. Some are from my personal research in the Amsterdam Archives. See the following Dutch settlers signatory hand marks. I will add more Signatory Hand Marks as I find them. Hand Mark 1648 of Abraham Jacobsen Hand Mark 1648 of Ambrose Loman Hand Mark 1648 of Barent Dirckse Hand Mark 1648 of Claes Carstersen & Claes Caerlessen are the same man Hand Mark of Claes Montelaar Hand Mark 1648 of Cornelis Souleman Hand Mark 1648 of Cornelis Swilwan Hand Mark 1648 of Egbert Woutersen Hand Mark 1648 of George Holmes aka Joris Homs Hand Mark of Gerrit Wolphert Hand Mark 1648 of Hans Hansen Hand Mark 1648 of Hendrick Heyndricksen Hand Mark 1648 of Isack de Forest Hand Mark 1648 of Jacob Stoffelse Hand Mark 1648 of Jan Haer Hand Mark 1648 of Jan Picces Hand Mark 1648 of Laurens Pieterse Hand Mark 1648 of Lawrens Pietersen (different man) Hand Mark 1648 of Louis Crain (thought to be Teunis Cray below) Hand Mark 1648 of Pieter Adriaensen Hand Mark 1648 of Teunis Cray Hand Mark 1648 of Thomas Sandersen Hand Mark 1648 of Wolphert Gerrits - same man showing evolution of his mark over time? Hand Mark with Signature of Marritie Damen

 
 

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