Crozier's General Armory: A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor

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William Armstrong Crozier
Genealogical association, 1904 - Heraldry - 147 pages
 

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Page 90 - CREST — A demi-savage grasping in his dexter hand a sheaf of arrows, and pointing with the sinister to an imperial crown or. MOTTO— This I'll defend.
Page 23 - Pale of six, argent and azure on a chief, gules a lion passant and gardant, crest, a palmer's staff, erect.
Page 93 - Per pale or and sable, a chevron between three horses' bits counterchanged. CREST — A horse's head couped argent bridled and maned or charged on the neck with a bezant between two wings or.
Page 16 - Azure, on a saltire engrailed sable, five escallops of the field, on a chief of the second a lion passant of the first.
Page 114 - Argent, a lion rampant Gules, on a chief Sable three escallops of the field, for Russell; 2.
Page 55 - On a cap of maintenance ppr. a booted and armed leg, couped at the thigh, quarterly argent and sable spur or. MOTTO— Virtus sola invicta.
Page 56 - Argent, a fesse sable between three lions' heads erased gules. CREST — A leopard passant guardant MOTTO— Hora e sempre. FARMAR. Pennsylvania. Robert Farmar, Pennsylvania, 1790. (Cork.) Argent, a fesse sable between three lions
Page 95 - Barry of six or and azure, on a chief of the first three pallets between two base squires* dexter and sinister of the second, over all an inescutcheon argent.
Page 35 - ... struggle, he breathing as calmly as if falling into a gentle sleep. Thus departed one of the most refined, sincere, true gentlemen of the old school of Maryland." THE CARROLLS OF DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND CARROLLTON. ARMS : Gu. two lions ramp, combatant or, supporting a sword point upwards ppr., pommel and hilt or. CREST : On the stump of an oak tree sprouting, a hawk rising, all ppr., billed or.
Page 141 - ... Tenn. ; dau. of Hon. James D. Porter, ex-Governoi of Tennessee, and his wife, Susie Dunlap ; a grand-daughter of Dr. Thomas Kennedy Porter, of Paris, Tenn., and of Gen. John Dunlap, of Paris, Tenn. Issue : 18 — i. James Porter, b. Dec. 4, 1879. 18 — 2. Mattie Gilmer, b. June 26, 1882. ARMS — Per fesse azure and gules, a barnacle argent ringed or. CREST — An Ostrich proper, holding in his beak a horse shoe argent. MOTTO — Honor et Veritas. (Honor and Truth...

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