America heraldica : a compilation of coats of arms, crests and mottoes of prominent American families settled in this country before 1800 (1887)
Vermont, E. V. de, Rykers, Henry · New York : Brentano · leaf 19
Coles, and Nathaniel Hurd, (Bostonheraldic painters of the XVIII. century), are notorious in New England as those of manufacturers of fictitious armsand pedigrees. fAs far back as 1807, the notorious Rev. Samuel Peters, in his Life of Hugh Peters, asserted, without takingthe trouble of furnishing… … PREFACEIII ^g^^tjifHERE lies evidently the danger, if systematically falsifying family traditions and gene-alogical connections may be termed a danger. Here it is that honest men ought tocome to the front, helping thus to rescue poor, naked, unguarded Truth, obstinatelypushed back into her native…
Heraldry · Crests · Emblems · Mottoes
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