The Herald and genealogist . a miichlonger commemoration of the Hon®Isaac Royall, Esq. (the son) who diedat his seat in Charleston, June 7, 1739,aged 67. Williamson in his History ofMaine, i. 692, has noticed one genera-tion still higher: William Royall, ofCasco, 1636, who purchased land atWescustogo, now Royalls River, inNorth Yarmouth : and was in the sameyear an Assistant under William Gorgess administration of NewSomersetshire. Isaac, the grandson, was a member of Council fortwenty-six years; and founded the fiist law professorship at Harvardimiversity. Being a Loyalist, he fled to England
The Herald and genealogist . a miichlonger commemoration of the Hon®Isaac Royall, Esq. (the son) who diedat his seat in Charleston, June 7, 1739,aged 67. Williamson in his History ofMaine, i. 692, has noticed one genera-tion still higher: William Royall, ofCasco, 1636, who purchased land atWescustogo, now Royalls River, inNorth Yarmouth : and was in the sameyear an Assistant under William Gorgess administration of NewSomersetshire. Isaac, the grandson, was a member of Council fortwenty-six years; and founded the fiist law professorship at Harvardimiversity. Being a Loyalist, he fled to England; and died here in1781: his sister marrying Henry Vassall, and his daughters respect-ively Thomas Savel and Sir William (Sparhawk) Pepperrell. Furtherparticulars of the family will be found in the History of Medford,Massachusetts, 1855. We are unable to find, however, any blason forthe shield of the three garbs. The fourth shield at Dorchester, that upon the monument of Foster, we have already introduced in p. See also Mr. Pkuiclies recent History of that Parish. ANGLO-AMERICAN COAT-ARMOUR. 431 One of the early settlers in Massachusetts was Samuel Symonds,uncle to the Cavalier Eichard whose valuable Diary was printed forthe Camden Society in 1859. To that volume is prefixed the familypedigree, derived from the same authors MS. Collections for thecounty of Essex, which are preserved in the College of Arms. It tracesthe ancestry of Richard the antiquarys grandfather, through six gene-rations, resident in the counties of Salop and Stafford, up to JohnSymonds of Croft, co. Lancaster, and his wife a daughter of Sir Wil-liam Lording. Richard Symonds the grandfather was one of theCursitors of the Chancery, and so were all his three elder sons, John,Edward, and Samuel. Edward, the second of them, was the father ofthe antiquary. Samuel (writes his nephew in his pedigree,) bought y^place in Toppesfield in Essex called Olivers , 100^. per ann. butafterwards went into New E
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