The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-19

Calendar of Scotland. Rev John Living
stone, Scotch divine who lived late in
the sixteenth century, was the direct an
cestor. his grandson, Robert Livingstone,
emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1854,
and twenty years later was granted a
manOrial estate in New York by Governor
Thomas Dongan. a representative of this
family signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The first steamboat, Robert
FuItOn's beloved Clermont, made its trial
trip up the Hudson to the estate of Mrs.
Nckinstry's grandfather. That pride of
architecture, the capitol at Albany, has
six dormer windows devoted to the coats
of-arms of the Livingstons, Stuyvesants,
Schuylers, Tompkinses, JAYS and CEntons.
The Livingston cOat-of-arms contains on
an embossed shield, the arms of the
eTmined families Of LinIithgow and CAL
endar, as well as the Hepburns.
The Linlithgow crest, demi-Hercules
holding IN the dexter hand a club, in the
sinister snake, all surrounding the
motto 81 je pujs If l cam. The bortraits
OF most Of the old-time Llvingstons adorn
the home of their fair descendant.
The family of the late James Otis, once
Mayor OF San Francisco, have a coat-of-
arms in which is delineated an arm en-
bowed. The Otises are descendants of the
Revolutionary patriot whom John Adams
denomlnated "a flame of fire." The resi-
dence OF the earlier ancestry of the family
was IN Somerset, England.
The Kip family, whose armorial bearings
grace their carriage, are descendants OF
RulOn de kype, a Norman bard, whose
estates were close to AIencon. Isaac Kvpe
obtained large grant of land in the New
York colony in 1867 and erected the same
as manor by patent, in 1858, for his sons.
Jacobs and Hendricks, under the name of
kypesburg. The family motto is Vcstioia
Fl1tila retrorsUm (No steps backward).
Mrs. Frank J. French has some rare old
silver, on which is engraved in quaint
fashion the armorial bearings of her an
cestors, one of whom was with William of
Normandy i'll his invasion and CONQUEST of
England. Satterleigh was the AngIicized
name received by the family, owing 10 the
fact that il was located in the south fields
or leas OF England. In time this was
modified to Satterlee, which was Mrs.
French S maiden name. There were four
William Satterlees in the long line. one of
whom was commissioned captain of the
regiment OF which Moses Hazen was
colonel at the opening Of the Revolution
airy War, and near its close he was made a
major. Both commissions are the pron.
erty OF Mrs. French and the faded doom
ments. one of which bears the signature Of
John Hancock, are framed and occupy
prominent place in the parlor of her home
on Jackson street.
ore ct corde iden, (Word and thought
alke) is the motto on the coat-of-arms of
the Van Wyck family, represented by Mr..
and Mrs. S. NJ. Van Wyck and their
daughter. Mrs. Osgood Putnam. The
family emigrated from the village of
Wyck, Holland, to New Netherlands in
1860.
Perhaps there is 40 more interesting
family history than that of James de la
Montanya. The family genealogical chart
shows Dutch, French and English coats
o.-arms The first of the race was DR..
Johannes de ia Montanya, who was born
al 0alntogne, France, in 1895, and the last,
Master Jacques de la Montanya, the four
year-oid son Of James de la Montanya Jr.,
who resides III Paris. The French armor-
ial bearings were bestowed upon the
founder OF his family. The De la Mon
tanyas are entitled to the Dutch coat-of-
arms through the Waldrons noble