. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Crest : A griffin, s^jeant: proper-winged, gules, beak and fore Arms : Ermine, on a fess,gules, three annulets, or. ^4-4Al-^4ff^ Crest: A griffins head, nixi erased: proper. Motto : Fortis est Veritas.[Truth is strong.] Heraldic Journal, IV., 130. .Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., 1884. IHorton Two brothers, John and William Norton, thefirst a clergyman, came over in 1635, from , where the family estate, Sharpenhoe


. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Crest : A griffin, s^jeant: proper-winged, gules, beak and fore Arms : Ermine, on a fess,gules, three annulets, or. ^4-4Al-^4ff^ Crest: A griffins head, nixi erased: proper. Motto : Fortis est Veritas.[Truth is strong.] Heraldic Journal, IV., 130. .Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., 1884. IHorton Two brothers, John and William Norton, thefirst a clergyman, came over in 1635, from , where the family estate, Sharpenhoe,was situated, to Ipswich, Mass. There is an old MS. pedigree of the Norton. family, prepared in 1632 by John Philepott, Som-erset Herald, which gives, in a rather romanticfashion, a so-called history of the Nortons, ofBedfordshire, tracing them back to Normile, aNorman, allied to the Valois, whose son. SirJohn Norton, came over with the Conqueror. The family is mentioned in the official Visita-tions of i6j4 for counties Hertford and Bedford. Heraldic Journal, II., i. Herald and Genealogist, Part XV., 276. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, XIII., 225. T. B. WymanS Charlestown, Mass., Gene


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