The Sunday herald., 1886-11-21
The AMERICAN AR1sTocRAcY.
Complete Hist of American Families
Entitled 10 . Coat or Arms.


Mr.. E. de v. Vermont is about to publish In New
York work OF great eruditon entitled "Amerlca
lieradica." 1t processes to be no more than COM
prominent American families settled In this country
before 1900, but the opinion s expressed that It will
become me mn Bnrkes peerage OF the "American arts
fact that. besides the few heradic eblems brought
over from the old countries by some OF the emf
armOral devices used without winge OF conscience
BY families win absolutely no right 10 hear any GOAT
oi arms and snowing me fact ton snch. Far back
felters work begun, and boston itselfin cultured,
high-t9ned Boston-a number OF nfth-rate artists,
struggling for bare pittance, and bent on nndlng
suit the fancy of the wealthy th'Ipsi patrons, S
coats ats Sol os arms, m MSented as well as painted
be found either In some heraldic encyclopedia, con-
suited a. random, Or more frequently, In the ever
ceeds TO lay down the fundamental rule OF hls craft;
"a coat OF arms IL and remains the exclusive prop
erly OF that person who either established his pre-
scrptive right TO it-belng gentleman 0roldrace-
or received In more recent times by royal deed OF
concession. Only his lineal descendants, not his
collateral relatives can pretend to It, Only direct
ancestor, having borne by right coat of arms
eau give descendants similar privilege and obtain
from them an honest footing among the Americans
entitled 10 coat arinor." And proceeding on this
rule he makes llnal and complete list OF al! Amer-
can families which emigrated before 1900 aud have
armor. These families are 1872 In number, They
are rs follows: Alexander, Amory. Anderson, An
IreWs, Appleton, Arcner, Arnold, Bacon, Barclay,
Barlow, iayard, Beekman. Belcher, Bell, Beng-
ham, Bethune, Bleecker, Bolton, Brewster, BrRht.
Brnley, Brown, (of RyeD Browne, (Waiertown,j
Browne, lof salemJ Bulkey, Buckley Burnett Car
roll, ,Caverly Chaoner, ,Chaase, Chauncey Clayborne
Clinton, CONN, Golden, Coolidge, Corwin, Cotton,
Coutant, Craddock, Cromwell, Cruger, Curtis, Cush,
Ing, Chute, Cuyler, Cary, Davidson, Delano, Deane
Denison, Dlsbrow, Dodge, Drake, Dudley, Dumreso,
pammehr, n Eliot, Emerson, Fairfax, .,FarweaileE,
Giles, Gilman, Greaves, (Gravesl Greene Griswold,
Gookin' hales. Hancock. Hay, Hayden, ileahcote,
QryngY lngls, Jay Jeiirles, KIP, Lalhrop, Law
Lord, Loring, Lowell, Lowndes, Ludlow, Ludwell,
Luquer, Lyman, Mascarene, Middleton, Miner, Mon,
iague, Montgomery, Morgan, Morris. Munsel, Nun
roe @ Selssen, M,s9 Nisa9son Page Pelham pe,
Phlllipse, Phillips, Pierrepolt. Polhenus. Pcpham
Provost, pyheaon; Quincy. Randolph, Rapaijie,
sawsSp, Msals GGo'S,assa, Rsoms, Roosevelt,
Sands Sanford savage Schemes, % schuser soes,a ssoi
son, sioddari, storrs, stokes, stranes, stnrsts. %
stnyyesani, sumner; Temple, Thompson, Tnorn-
Jyns ysn nap.sss SsSs1s VA sss A yam @Ss
iYorhlsy Van Myck, vassali, Ward Warren Warren
Wendell o Wentwortna Whiting, whltmore,
Winslow, Winthrop, Wolcott, Woodruff, Woolspy'
Mr.. Vermont proceeds to give a more detained az,
Ihem Is ,hatof Apele,en, oi wlieh he says; One Of
pleasure to look over In America is thai of samuel
Appleton, The enlgrant, who came over from IIltla
Waldlngaeld, County Suffolk, England, In 1855, and
settled in Ipswich, Mas. He descended from John
Hall, County sunolk. Crest; An elephant ! head
sable, cared, or; In the mouth snake vert coiled
about the trunk, Motto; DincileS sea n'uctuosG,
lhard but frultfull