Ancestors and Descendants of Capt. Benjamin Barnes and Charles Curtiss of Granville, Mass., 1636-1910

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Halaman 76 - A coat of arms did not belong with a family name, but only to the particular family, bearing the name, to whose progenitor it had been granted or confirmed ; and it was as purely individual a piece of property as a homestead. Hence it was as ridiculous to assume arms without being able to prove the right, as it would now be to make use of a representation of the Washington mansion at Mt. Vernon, and claim it as having been the original property of one's family, unless bearing the name of Washington...
Halaman 74 - Adams Blakeman. She died June, 1658, and her will was proved Nov. 4, 1658, at Fairfield, Conn., and reads as follows : — Fairfield Probate Records, Vol. 1648-56, Page 17. The Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Curtiss, . . . being weak yeat perfect in her minde as is ... Inp'mis Unto her two Sonns John Curtiss and William doe give my Mare and Coalt. . . . It. Unto John Curtiss & Jonathan Curtiss y...
Halaman 4 - Appears among signatures to an order for Bounty Coat or its equivalent in money, due for the eight months
Halaman 76 - ... regularly bear arms, but the daughter of an arms-bearing father could use the paternal coat in a lozenge. When she married, such arms did not descend to her children (except by special authority), unless she were an heiress marrying an armiger, and then only as a quartering of her husband's arms. The mere fact that an individual possessed a painting of a coat of arms, used it upon plate, or as a bookplate or seal, or had it put upon his gravestone, is not proof that he had a right to it. Proof...
Halaman 76 - As there is no person and no institution in the United States with authority to regulate the use of coats of arms, your Committee discourages their display in any way or form. Prior to the Revolution, as subjects of a government recognizing heraldry, certain of the inhabitants were entitled to bear coats of arms ; but only such as were grantees of arms, or who could prove descent in the male line from an ancestor to whom arms were granted or confirmed by the Heralds. Females...
Halaman 74 - Curtiss my two cowss, one hiefer, one bullock and a calf after my deesas : provided y' if my sayd young mare before given to my Grandchildren should miscarry. Then my Will is if my two sonns John and William Curtiss should give foure pounds each of them to there Children y* have no share in my house and Lott to be paid att y* Age of twentie : — It.
Halaman 77 - Frederic Haines. A genealogy of the Curtiss family being a record of the descendants of Widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-40.
Halaman 74 - Sonn of my Sonn William and given to him : The Rest of my goods Wthin y* house that are moveable goods I doe give to me Sonns John & William Curtiss to be equally divided betwixt them, My two Sonns John Curtiss & William Curtiss I doe make executors: my will is y...

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