. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 4. El? There were three distinct settlements of Elysin this country in the XVII. century. Nathaniel(1635), near the present city of SpringfieldMass. ; Richard (1660), on the banks of theConnecticut River; Joshua, (1685), at Trenton,N. J. There is an unsubstantiated tradition thatthese three, or, at least, the two first namedwere brothers. One fact, however, is constant,that is, that all three brought over veiy similarcoats of arms, the number of fleiirs-
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . 4. El? There were three distinct settlements of Elysin this country in the XVII. century. Nathaniel(1635), near the present city of SpringfieldMass. ; Richard (1660), on the banks of theConnecticut River; Joshua, (1685), at Trenton,N. J. There is an unsubstantiated tradition thatthese three, or, at least, the two first namedwere brothers. One fact, however, is constant,that is, that all three brought over veiy similarcoats of arms, the number of fleiirs-de-lis onlydiffering. Richard Ely brought over a ring given himby the King of France, and engraved with hisarms. And old tankard of Nathaniel Ely bearsthe same arms; but only three find in English heraldic authorities that theonly coat of arms registered to a family ofElly, or Ely, is the one we give here, withthe crest, taken from Burke. Arms : Argent, a fess, en-grailed, between six fleurs-de-lis, gules. Crest : An arm, erect,couped below the elbow, hab-ited, argent, grasping in thehand, proper, a fleur-de-lis, no AMERICA HERALDICA The Ely Reunion, Held at Lyjne, Ct., iSyg. New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter. XXXV., 236. Sir Bernard Burke : Tke General Armory of England,etc., Papworth and Morant: An Ordinary of British Armo-rials, iS- Coggesball (5ibb6 Sir Henry Gibbs of Honington, Co. Warwick,son of Sir Ralph Gibbs, and grandson of RobertGibbs, all of the same estate, was the father ofRobert Gibbs, a prominent Boston merchant, theemigrant (1660), whose grandson, also RobertGibbs, was buried (1769) in the Old NorthBurial Ground, at Providence, R. I., where thearms we give can be seen on his tombstoneand on that of his wife, daughter of ColonelJoseph Whipple. The arms we give are taken from a seal af-fixed to a letter written by John Coggeshall,Secretary of the Colony of Rhode Island (1677).He was the first President of that c
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