The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-01
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ond and third gules, a lion rampant re-
guardant, argent.
Crest: demi-lion resuardant. ar
gent. holding between his paws. a boar's
head. couped. sable.
Motto: Libertas.
This Is the coat-of-arms used by the
Evans family Of Pennsylvania
In st. Peters Church, Philadelphia, a
window to the memory of Joseph r.
Evans, represents the lion Of the arms,
with a boar's head issuing from a coro-
mort" 4
To T. p. s.. who asks for the original
spelling of tho name sometimes spelled
Stearns and sometimes Stern. also the
coat-of-arms Of the branch descended
from Isaac Stcarns:
Isaac Stearns. who came to America in
1850 In company with Gov Winthrop
and sundry other worthless. is said TO
be the ancestor of most of the Amer
| leans of Stearns, Stern. Sterne and
| Stearn- 1t Is said that the final So
on the name Is an American addition
and that the name Stearns is not found
In old English records. Certain 1t is
that the IS" was not used in the earliest
spelling Of the name In England, for
the first Stern was so-calIed because
Of his disposition.
There are. besides the English families
OF the name in America. many of Ger
| man descent who spell their name Stern
Sterne and Starne.
The arms Of Isaac Stearns are the same
as those of Richard Sterne, Archbishop
Of York. They are described: Or a
| chevron between three crosses crosslet
| sable The crest is a cock starting
proper.
To One Of the Boone family" who
asks for his family coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms illustrated. is that
given to. or borne by the Immigrant
ancestor. Solomon Boone, of Bristol, Pa.
1t is blazoned: azure: on a bend argent.
cotised. or. between two lions, rampant
of the second. a. e., second color-argenO,
three escallops Tor shells), gules Crest:
a band holding a sheaf Of arrows, points
downward. proper.
To T. T. Delano. who asks for the
origin of the name Delano. and some
thing Of the early record of the family:
II was Jean de Lanneauy, a French
Husuenot who. because Of the expulsion
he had suffered for his religion, turned
from all that wealth and honor and
position and heritage could offer and set
his face toward Leyden, Holland. BY
his wife. whose portrait still hangs in the
museum Of Leyden. and who came of a
distinguished Brabant family, he had a
son, PHILIPPE. whose name is usually
spelled de Ia Noye. He was born in
France in 1902 before his fathers expul-
sion and baptized in Leyden the follow
ing year. Here he joined in with the
English Puritans and with them came
to the New World in the ship Fortune.
He settled in Plymouth. where he mar
ried Mary Pontus. widow of James
Glass
PHILIPPE had the following children:
Mary. who married Jonathan Durham;
Esther. who married Samuel Sampson,
and John Soule: Philip, who married
Elizabeth Clark; Thomas, who married
Mary Alden, the daughter of the re-
nowned Priscilla and John Alden; John,
who married Mary Weston. Jane, who
died unmarried. Jonathan, who married
Mercy Warren: Rebecca. who married
John Churchill. and Samuel. the only
child of the second marriage, who mar.
ried Elizabeth Churchill
John Delano and Mary Alden were the
ancestors of a godly line of the family
one branch OF which is settled al Sodus
Center. N Y. Probably the most dis
tinguished descendant of the Delanos in
this country was Gen. U. 8. Grant This
great man traced his descent through
Jonathan Delano. son Of PHILIPPE and
his wife, Mary Warren. They had a
son. Jonathan. who had thirteen chill
dren. the fifth daughter of whom was
Susannah. born June 6, 1924 She mar
ried Noah Grant when she was % and
he was IS. and they, through their son.
Capt. Noah Grant. became the great
grandparents OF the distinguished gen.
eraL
To T. G.. who asks for the origin Of
the name Graham:
Tradition has it that the Graham fam
lily is descended from Graeme. who in
the time of Fergus II. in the fifth CEN
fury. defended the old Roman wall in
Britain. built by Severus.
This wall was between the firths Of the
Clyde and the Forth. Crane. valiently
defended the wall. and since that time
it has been called Graeme's or Graham's
wall or dyke.
1t seems that he was called Graeme
on account Of his valor-the word being
Anglo-Saxon for fierce. brave. courage
GUS
In Holland the word Is grim or grimm.
In Wales. grem: in Gaelic, gruaim: grim
in Gaelic was the word for battle So
the Grahams undoubtedly come of war
like stock; the gallant Grahams'' is a
well-known term in Scotland
Cream is another spelling. There Is
an old Morse word gramr. or gremr.
meaning fierce. also king. and Chrimes
and Crimmin are the high German
forms.