The genealogy of the Klock family by Mr. Sherman Orville Klock in the Library of the State of New York in Albany. N.Y. First Families of America from the Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. Mrs. Emma Hawley of the Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, 0., Miss Edna L. Jacobsen of the New York State Library, Albany, N.Y., Mr. Clayburne B. Sampson, Historian of Ellery, N.Y., and Mr. Dan F. Williams of Euclid, 0. At the and of this book have been included several blank pages for the use of those who may wish to carry on any particular genealogical line. Britt Encyclopedia Brittanica Numbers before name a indicate the number assigned to the individual in the genealogy.
Roman numerals indicate the order of members of the individual families.
1 asterisk after a name indicates note after the family listing. Another version of the origin of the Motto and Coat of Arms, related in the archives of the family, is that bandits stole the King's daughter, whereupon the King proclaimed that he would give her rescuer whatever he might demand. Hendrik Klock, after adventures more appropriate to a dime novel than to sober history, personally effected the rescue, and taking advantage of the King's promise, demanded the daughter in marriage. So the King raised him to the nobility and the words of the suitor became the motto in the Klock Coat of Arms. Of course the wedding took place.