. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . an (?) mentions the following personages as having taken refugein New England : 1. A certain Thomas Seymour (of the Ducal house of Somerset); 2. Three brothers of Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby; 3. A certain William Russell (of the Ducal house of Bedford); 4. A Pierrepont, legal heir to the (now extinct) Duchy of Kingston; 5. A Montague, a younger scion of the Earls of Sandwich; 6. A Graham (of the Ducal house of Montrose); 7. A Clinton, of the Earls of Lin
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . an (?) mentions the following personages as having taken refugein New England : 1. A certain Thomas Seymour (of the Ducal house of Somerset); 2. Three brothers of Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby; 3. A certain William Russell (of the Ducal house of Bedford); 4. A Pierrepont, legal heir to the (now extinct) Duchy of Kingston; 5. A Montague, a younger scion of the Earls of Sandwich; 6. A Graham (of the Ducal house of Montrose); 7. A Clinton, of the Earls of Lincoln; etc., etc. We shall have occasion to discuss several of these descents still persisted in, in this century, and made moreconspicuous by the fact of some Americans of that name having reached prominent situations among us. At theend of this work will be found a list of over fifty American families having assumed the coats of arms of Peers ofthe British Empire. PREFACE IX upon the lips of the great majority of our fellow-citizens, and having thus obtained —in spite of itsutter absurdity,—the force and popularity of an axiom. IV. ^E hear it constantly repeated in America, that every family surname, and,especially, every surname of a Britannic or of an Irish origin, is entitledto certain armorial devices; and that such a coat of arms does existsomewhere, at the disposal of the patient searcher. In other words, that,if, at some remote or more recent period, a Jones, a Brown, a Smith,having distinguished himself in the service of the state, or in the favorf Y of the sovereign, was granted, by royal letters patent, some sort of armorial devices, from that day and hour, every living, or yet-to-be-born, Jones, Brown, or Smith, canlay his hand, at his good pleasure, upon the said coat of arms, and adopt it as his family emblem. We can hardly be expected to discuss with any amount of seriousness a fiction so radicallyopposed to truth and common sense. We shall, therefore, settle
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