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New Netherland & New York Genealogy
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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