. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 6. Wymans Charlestown, Mass., Genealogies, I., j62. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, I., XX., XXV., XXX. [Concerns also several otherbranches of the FOSTER stock.] Sir Bernard Burke .- The General Armory of England,etc., 1884. Jfostet Reginald Foster of Little Badow, Co. Essex,England, landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1638. Hebelonged to the Foster family of Bamborough Ifrencb Among the principal persons of the name ofFrench, who, according
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 6. Wymans Charlestown, Mass., Genealogies, I., j62. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, I., XX., XXV., XXX. [Concerns also several otherbranches of the FOSTER stock.] Sir Bernard Burke .- The General Armory of England,etc., 1884. Jfostet Reginald Foster of Little Badow, Co. Essex,England, landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1638. Hebelonged to the Foster family of Bamborough Ifrencb Among the principal persons of the name ofFrench, who, according to early records, arrivedin New England, from England, previous to the r AMERICA HERALDICA year 1640, appears the name of John French,who died in Braintree, Mass., August 6, 1692. Printed and oral statements, as well as armo-rial bearings, confirm his Scotch descent. The coat of arms, in the possession of thefamily from the time of emigration, is thatgiven here. With a change in the tinctures,these are the arms of the Frenchs of Thorni-dikes and Frenchla^id, Co. Berwick. Arms : Argent, a chevronbetween three boars heads,erased, Crest : A flenr-de-lis. Motto : Nee timeo, neesperno. [Neither fear nordespise.] The descendants of Daniel, the elder son ofthe emigrant, remained faithful to the Britishcrown during the Revolutionary struggle, andsuffered largely in their fortune, on that account. On the other hand, the descendants of PierreJouET, the second son of the emigrant, whosettled in Virginia, were ardently engaged onthe Revolutionary side, one of them, CaptainJack JouET, by hard riding, in May, 1781, ap-prising the fugitive Virginia Legislature, then sit-ting at Charlottesville, of the approach of theBritish under Tarleton. Matthew Jouet, a sonof that Jack, who settled in Kentucky, was apainter of great renown in his time. Crest : A pelican in her piety;proper.
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