. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 1445, L. 167b, etc. [Brit-ish Museum.] EmmertON and Waters : Gleanings From English Rec-ords About New England Families, 7 \i886\. S. G. Drake : The History and Antiquities of Boston, 18^6. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, IX., 233. HinmanS Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, 112. Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., Supplement. Papworth and Morant: An Ordinary of British Armo-rials, i8j^. /Iftiller The arm
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 1445, L. 167b, etc. [Brit-ish Museum.] EmmertON and Waters : Gleanings From English Rec-ords About New England Families, 7 \i886\. S. G. Drake : The History and Antiquities of Boston, 18^6. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, IX., 233. HinmanS Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, 112. Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., Supplement. Papworth and Morant: An Ordinary of British Armo-rials, i8j^. /Iftiller The arms we give have been for over onehundred and seventy-five years in the possessionof the descendants of Samuel Miller, of NewEngland, who married the daughter of JosephBelcher, of Boston, and was a man of largemeans. His son, Ebenezer, who became a distin-guished clergyman, graduated at Harvard Collegein 1722. The English family bearing these arms de-scends from Nicholas Miller, Sheriff of countyKent (tempo. Charles I.). Baronetcy extinct in1714. Arms : Ermine, a fess gules,-,_-—^, . between three wolves heads, ^*K erased, Crest : A wolfserased, azure. head. Heraldic Journal, L, 39. T. B. WymanS Charlesiown, Mass., Genealogies, II., Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., AMERICA HERALDICA Ifojcroft The FoxcROFTS came originally from Foxcroft,county Lancaster, England. Later, they arefound in Halifax, Yorkshire; and the HarleianMSS., No. 4360, gives a full pedigree of thisancient house. Daniel Foxcroft, Mayor of Leeds, countyYork (1665), was the father of Francis Fox-croft, an ancestor of the New England Fox-CROFTS, who married in this country in his sons occupied honored positions in thecommunity, the eldest one, Francis, as Judge ofProbate, the second, Thomas, as Pastor of theFirst Church, Boston. His granddaughter mar-ried Lieutenant Governor Phillips, of Andover. The imprint of the seal used by these twobrothers in witnessi
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