. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Crest : A squirrel cracking the fruitof an oak branch: all proper. Motto : Non incautus futuri. [Not heedlessof the future.] Xee (®tber) From the Lees of Lee, county Chester, theresettled before the time of Henry III., came theEarls of Litchfield as younger line. AMERICA HERALDICA 67 The chief line removed from Lee to Darnhall,in the same county [temp. Charles I.], and be-came extinct in the male line at the decease ofGeneral Charles Lee, the American Re
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Crest : A squirrel cracking the fruitof an oak branch: all proper. Motto : Non incautus futuri. [Not heedlessof the future.] Xee (®tber) From the Lees of Lee, county Chester, theresettled before the time of Henry III., came theEarls of Litchfield as younger line. AMERICA HERALDICA 67 The chief line removed from Lee to Darnhall,in the same county [temp. Charles I.], and be-came extinct in the male line at the decease ofGeneral Charles Lee, the American Revolu-tionary General. Arms : Argent, a chevron,between three leopards faces, Crest : On a ducal coronet,or, a leopards face, sable. Motto : Fide et constantia.[By fidelity and constancy.] Edward C. Mead : Getiealogical History of the Lee Familyof Virginia, 1868. C. F. Lee and J. Packard, Jr.: A Record of the Descend-ants of Coloiiel Richard Lee, of Virgi?iia, 1872. W. H. Whitmore: The American Ge?iealogist, l8/§. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, XL, 329; XXVL, 61; XXVIIL, 394. Bishop Meade : Old Churches, Ministers, and Families ofVirginia, II., /jj. Sir Bernard Burke : The Ge?ieral Armory of Englatid,etc., 1884. Sir Bernard Burke : Gen. Hist, of the Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, In Rykers History of Newlown we find men-tioned a William Howard, who came over toLong Island, N. Y., in 1660, and reached theage of one hundred. Other Howards, descending from a tailor atAylesford, county Kent, England, settled inNew England (1632-1696). We give here the arms borne by the first-mentioned family of Howard. C
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