The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-20
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
Ny FRANCES cowLEs. THE BURW ELL FAMILY
Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndicate)

Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndicate)
 Mai Lewis Burwell of Carter's Creek, Gloucester county, Virginia, was born in England and died in Virginia in 1858 The date of his coming to the new world does not seem to have been recorded and apparently most of the light thrown on his life comes from his tombstone. The inscription on tho tombstone reads:
 TO the lasting memory of Major Lewis Burwell of the county of Glou- cester, in Virginia. Gentlemen. who de- scended from the ancient family of Burwells of the counties of Bedford and Northampton. in England, who, nothing more worthy In his birth than virtuous in his life, exchanged this life for A better, on the 18th day of November, in the thirtythird year of his age, A. D. 1858"
 Additional information about Major Lewis Burwell states that his wife was Miss Higginson, whose father was a famous Indian fighter.
 Major Burweli. before his early death, had two sons-Nathanie and Lewis. Nathaniel married daughter of Robert Carter. commonly called King Carter. and had three sons and one daughter The daughter, Eliza beth. married President William Nell son. and became the mother of Gen cral Thomas Nelson.
 The New England Burwells trace their descent from John Burwell of Milford, Conn. who was born in Sut- ton. England, october 5. 1902 and who died August r, 1649.
 John Burwell came from Hemel, Hempstead. England stopped at Rox- bury Mass, and Wethersfield, Conn, and then went to Milford, where he sottled. He was a free planter. in 1889, ana established the farm where his de- scendants lived for many generations. His wife was named Alice.
 Johns son, Samuel. born in l64O, was town commissioner, one Of the gran tees of 1885 and among the proprietors of New Haven in 1865. He marrieh Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Fenn, m 1898 His son Samuel was an ensign, who married Rebecca Bunnell, ana Samuers grandson was Jere Who served in the battle of Trenton.
 George Peckham Burwell, grandson ot Jere Burwell, born in lsli, was a . prominent resident or (leNsi'Hui C' ike his ascestors for many genera lions. he was born on the old Mlltprd farm.
 John had other children besides Samuel. They were Ephraim, Nathan and Eliza beth, born in Milford, and John and Zee hariah, born before the family reached Milford-possibiy in England.
 The arms. Illustrated are described Argent. a lion rampant sable ducahy crowned or charged with eight roundles azure.
 Answers to Correspondents
 r. 1T p w who asks for a descrip- ton of the Worthngton coat of arms and the Demarest coat of arms if there are any to be found.
 The arms of the Worthington family are blazoned: Argent, three dungiorks sable Crest: A goat. passant, argent holding in his mouth an oak branch, vert fructed, or.
 The motto of the family is. Virtue dignus avorum. (Worthy of his ancestors valor)
 The arms used by the American De rnarest family of venerable Dutch eX traction are those of the Des Marest of Europe Des Marests Is merely plural form of the same name. The arm gre blazoned:
 D'azure, un deXtrochere dargen' tenant trois lis de iardin du meme. Tha fs azure on dextrochere, argent, hold ing three garden lilies of the same. Tn term lis de Jardn" or garden lilies is found in several of the old armoria descriptions to distinguish the tes%nlan hl' from the "fleur-de-lis."
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