Walewijn van der Veen petitioned the provincial council for admission as Notary Public on October 27, 1661, and was officially sworn in on January 19, 1662.
On 14 December 1619 Walewijn van der Veen had to appear before the Deventer magistrates and sign a petition to support the Canons of Dort,[5] which he refused.
He first appears in records in New Amsterdam on 26 June 1656 prosecuting Allard Anthony on the matter of Benjamin van de Water's estate.
He then stayed in New Amsterdam doing trade on consignment and acted as attorney for Adriaen Blommaert, who was an important merchant and ship master.
Students, historians and genealogists are able to see court cases, banns of matrimony, powers of attorney, indentures of apprentices, debts, mortgages, deeds, conveyances of real estate, testaments and wills in early New Netherland.
An example of a will executed by a couple with Walewyn van der Veen as the Notary is mentioned in a paper published by the New York Historical Society: 'The Old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam: A paper read before the New York Historical Society June 15, 1875' by James W. Gerard[17] page 34.
[18] Some Information on family background and work was provided for by the director, David William Voorhees of the Jacob Leisler Institute[19]