The New York genealogical and biographical record . Vol. I. Indexes to Smiths Civil and Military Lists of Rhode from Gerow Cemetery, N. Y. Taber Farm, Quaker Hill, N. , Haviland Hollow, N. Foster Family. Lancaster, Mass., Vital of Livingston Family. New Jersey Officers and Men, York in Families of Families of Mas
The New York genealogical and biographical record . Vol. I. Indexes to Smiths Civil and Military Lists of Rhode from Gerow Cemetery, N. Y. Taber Farm, Quaker Hill, N. , Haviland Hollow, N. Foster Family. Lancaster, Mass., Vital of Livingston Family. New Jersey Officers and Men, York in Families of Families of and and Kester , Conn., Town Records, Family. Salem County, N. J., Cattle Marks, in King Philips Syckle of Surrey, in KING PLATE I. &j&¥.7ll£L«BilAf\i. NEW YORK. THE NEW YORK Genealogical anb ^iogra||ial |Utflrtr. Vol. XLI. NEW YORK, OCTOBER, i9io. No. 4. THE KING HERALDRY. With a Brief History of the Origin of the Families of this Name in Old and New England Entitled to Bear Coat-Armor. By George Austin Morrison, Jr., A. M., It has long been a popular fallacy that families of likename, bearing approximately the same coats-of-arms, slightlydifferenced, must necessarily be closely related, and that nomatter how wide apart their county localities they are alldescended from the same ancestor. It is well established,however, that similarity of surname invariably influenced theadoption of similar arms, and the early heraldic grants in manycases allotted arms containing the general family symbols tofamilies of a common name, but without the slightest bond ofrelationship. An excellent example of this system is foundamong the various King families,
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