The Herald and genealogist . er of Boston. Havinggraduated at Harvard College, he came to England to pursue his theo-logical studies, was ordained deacon in 1726, and priest in 1727, bythe Lord Bishop of London; was thereupon appointed Chaplain to theDuke of Bolton, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; and received thehonorary degree of from the university of Oxford; the severaldocuments attesting which preferments are carefully preserved by hisdescendants. Li 1728 he was appointed by the Society for the Pro-pagation of the Gospel a missionary for New England, with theannual stipend of 100/.;
The Herald and genealogist . er of Boston. Havinggraduated at Harvard College, he came to England to pursue his theo-logical studies, was ordained deacon in 1726, and priest in 1727, bythe Lord Bishop of London; was thereupon appointed Chaplain to theDuke of Bolton, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; and received thehonorary degree of from the university of Oxford; the severaldocuments attesting which preferments are carefully preserved by hisdescendants. Li 1728 he was appointed by the Society for the Pro-pagation of the Gospel a missionary for New England, with theannual stipend of 100/.; and before leaving the old country he wasmarried, at the church of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Westminster, toMartha Mottram, of a family resident at Addlethorp in silver tankard bears the arms of Miller, Ermine, a fess gulesbetween three wolfs heads erased azure ; impaling Sable, on a chevronargent between three cross-crosslets [or?] as many quatrefoils[gules ?], Crest, a wolfs head erased, collared ANGLO-AMERICAN COAT-ARMOUR. 259 We find these arms attributed to Miller of Oxenhoatli in Kent,descended from Nicholas IVIiller of Horsenells Crouch in Wrotham,Sheriff of Kent 8 Charles I. For the arms of Mottram, our American friends have not given thetinctures of either the cross-crosslets or the quatrefoils. Those wehave supplied complete the blason as given in Burkes Armory forMottram of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, except that we there read cinque-foils instead of quatrefoils. Of the Mottram family, from which J\[r. Miller took a wife, we findsome particulars in OlcLfields Account of Wainfleet and the Wapental:eof Candleshoe, 1829, Addlethoi-p being one of the parishes describedin that work. It is there stated, at p. 115— The family of Mottram appear to have resided in this parish for a considerableperiod. The name of Thomas Mottram occurs in 1584. John Mottram from 1627 to1663. John Mottram, jun. 1674. Samuel Mottram 1682 to 1710. The seal of JohnMottram wa
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