. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Motto :titude.] Veritas et fortitudo. [Truth and for- HoLcoMBE Genealogy, History of Windsor, Ct., 665. Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of E7igland,etc., 1884. Stougbton Captain Israel Stoughton, who came over toMassachusetts in 1632, and was made a freemanof the colony in 1633, was one of the foundersof Dorchester, Mass., and the commander inchief of the Massachusetts troops in the PequotWar. His son, William Stoughton, a Governor of
. America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 . Motto :titude.] Veritas et fortitudo. [Truth and for- HoLcoMBE Genealogy, History of Windsor, Ct., 665. Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of E7igland,etc., 1884. Stougbton Captain Israel Stoughton, who came over toMassachusetts in 1632, and was made a freemanof the colony in 1633, was one of the foundersof Dorchester, Mass., and the commander inchief of the Massachusetts troops in the PequotWar. His son, William Stoughton, a Governor ofthe Massachusetts Bay Province, used the armswe give on his official seals, and the same de-vices are found on his tombstone in the OldDorchester Burial Ground. They are the arms of the Stoughtons of , Arms : Argent, on a sal-tire, gules, between fourdoor staples, sable, an es-callop, or. Crest : A demi-lion,rampant: proper—hold-ing an escallop, or. Heraldic Journal, I., 10. S. G. Drake: The History and Antiquities of Boston, 1856.[Not for the arms given, which are wrong.] New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-ter, v., 350; XV., 350. Sir Bernard Burke : The General Armory of England,etc., SSiPtb Colonel William. Byrd, the first of his nameand family in Virginia, son of John Byrd, ofLondon [of the old family of Broxton, , dating tempo. Richard II.], was bom in1652, and came to Virginia a youth, as thelegatee of his maternal uncle. Captain ThomasStegge, merchant, landed proprietor and mem-ber of the Council. He patented large tractsof land, including the present site of the Cityof Richmond, and settled himself on his fineestate of Westover. His son, William Byrd of Westover, was wellknown as a writer, a philanthropist, and anactive public man. He founded the
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