The Washington herald., 1916-05-07

or. on a fess azure three garbs of
the field The crest is a demi Ceres
affrontee proper vested vert, holding
three ears of wheat over her left shul-
der or and in her right hand a sickle
proper, handle or
The Vernons of New England use
the arms described. and claim descent
They were established in this coun-
don in 164S and came here when he
was twenty-three years old, probably
because OF heavy losses when his
fathers warehouses were burned in
the great FIRE of London in 1855. He
settled in Rhode Island and one of
his descendants Thomas Vernon, was
a Tory who was imprisoned at the
time OF the Revolution.
To J. 7. A.. who asks for informa- =
tion OF the Middletons of Mississippi,
originally of the Carolina branch. ]
am sorry to say that cannot hnd
record of the branching off OF the
Mississippi branch of the Middletons.
The Carolina family was founded by
Edward Middleton. OF Twickenham, Eng
land, and Of the province of Carolina,
America. as the old records say. He
died at Charleston, South Carolina, in
1885 He was active in the public life
of the time, and lived at the Oaks, on
Goose Neck. His wife was Sarah Fowen.
widow-perhaps his second wife, and
they had a son Arthur. born in 1881. died
in 1887, who was educated in England
The arms OF this family are those of the
Middletons of Stocked, Yorkshire. and
are described: Argent. fretty sable, a
canton of the last. The crest is a garb
or between two wings elect argent
F T: The Pace family is Of German
descent. and has left few records There
is reference to it in Chambers "Revo-
lutionary Germans" a book which l am
unable to reach at the present time.
To \. F. R.: There are no records OF
the ROsson family. There are many
records of the Rosen family. Rosson
might, of course, be a local spelling OF
Rosen.
To NJ. r A: There are no records OF
the Ausbrooks family.
E. H H: The descendants Of Osbert
de Hervie from Argyleshire. Scotland
are not recorded.
To r. S. II. who desires coat of arms
of the Heath family and information
about them: The Heath coat OF arms is
utSNl lbGu' ItI ClltNlOi' CItuutlltt Sdplt
and argent, in chief two estoiles of the
last in base a heathcock sable Combed
and wattlcd gules. The crest is a cocks
head sable crested and teloped gules,
bet tween two branches vert.
William Heath. from Surry. England
was an early settler of this family. His
great grandson Hezekiah Heath was
horn in Sharon. Connecticut. in 1T5s, and
settled at Little Falls, n. Y. He was
school teacher and married Dorothy
Mclean His grandfather, Williams
! son. was Bartholomew Heath. OF Sharon
Connecticut, who died in 1883. black
smith and farmer. whose wife was
named Mehitable. HeEehah's son was
Henry Heath, OF Little Falls, who mar.
ried Mary easier whose mother was a
niece Of General Nicholas Herkimer the
hero of an exciting fight in the revolu-
toinary war with the British and In.
dians.
Another early Heath family settled in
Roxbury. Mass in 1886 William OF this
branch was born in 1877 and was a major
general in the revolutionary. He was
a farmer, and after the war returned
to his farm.
Another revolutionary soldier Of the
name was Eleazer Heath, of Tyringham
Mass, who removed from there to Ohio.
His wife was Abigail Robbins, and he
had several children-DorCas, David
Ebenezer. EIeaZer. Joshua, Abigail
Anne, Job, Sally and Timothy.
(CorCrigh, lsl6l