. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . io6 AMERICA HERALDICA Sir Bernard Burke: The Ge7ieral Armory of England,etc., Sir R. Douglas: The Peerage of Scotland, etc., 1813. George Seton: The Law and Practice of Scottish Her-aldry, i86j. The Book of Fajiilv Crests, II., 206. ©reen Cobbington Among the members of the MassachusettsCompany (1627-28) appears the name of Wzl-liam CoDDiNGTON, whose seal on a letter ad-dressed by him—during his term of office asGovernor of Rhode Island—to Governo
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . io6 AMERICA HERALDICA Sir Bernard Burke: The Ge7ieral Armory of England,etc., Sir R. Douglas: The Peerage of Scotland, etc., 1813. George Seton: The Law and Practice of Scottish Her-aldry, i86j. The Book of Fajiilv Crests, II., 206. ©reen Cobbington Among the members of the MassachusettsCompany (1627-28) appears the name of Wzl-liam CoDDiNGTON, whose seal on a letter ad-dressed by him—during his term of office asGovernor of Rhode Island—to Governor Leverett,of Massachusetts, reproduces the arms we give. These arms are those attributed by Englishworks on Heraldry to the Codringtons ofWroughton, Co. Wilts, England. The colonistcame over, it is said, from Boston, Co. Lincoln,Eng-land. Crest : A dragons head, gules,between two wings, chequey, orand azure, issuing out of a du-cal coronet of the second. Motto : Imynersabilis est vera virtus. [Truevalor cannot be sunk.]. These arms, belonging to the Greens ofCos. Hereford and Nottingham, and of AwkleyHall, Co. York, England, were used by fohnGreen of Stow (1688), and by his brother. Bar-tholomezv Green (1678). The grandfather of both, fohn Green, cameover in 1632 and settled at Charlestown, Green, of Cambridge, concerning whoseorigin so much has been written, may have be-longed to the same family. Arms: Argent, on a fess,azure, between three pellets,each charged with a lionshead, erased, of the first, a/^ griffin, passant, between twoescalops, or.
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