Coats-of-Arms in Virginia: William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 2, No.2
(Oct., 1893),  pp 133 – 135

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				COATS OF ARMS IN VIRGINIA

SCOTT:	Mr. R. A. Brock writes that he has examined the arms of Gen. Charles 
	Scott of the Revolution, (who was born in Cumberland County and died in 
	Kentucky, of which state he was Governor) —a wax impression used in his 
	letters. "Some of the charges are not entirely distinct, but I am 
	confident that the following are the arms: Three dolphins, curved, back 
	upward, head and curve of tail resting, between a chevron. Crest: A 
	dolphin similarly poised"

SCOTT:	Mr. Brock writes of a book-plate, which has recently come under his 
	observation:
	"The book-plate, mentioned very probably appertains to Virginia. It 
	bears the name Gustavus Scott, and the motto is Gaudio Magna Nuncio. 
	The arms are: or, a bend az. a torteau between two crescents, within a 
	bordure, or. with 11 torteaux. Crest: A moor cock erect.
		"The shield has ornamentation of two wreathes or branches, crossing 
	below, of oak leaves and acorns. This differs in some particulars from 
	the multitudinous Scot and Scott arms of Burke."

READE:	On the tomb of Thomas Reade,(grandson of Col. George Reade, 
	Secretary of the Colony) who died 17 April, 1739, the editor has seen 
	arms corresponding very closely to Reade of Co. Gloucester, in Burke, 
	which are: Az. guttee d'or, a cross formee fitchee of the last. The 
	arms of Thomas Reade, without tinctures are: guttee, a cross crosslet  
	fitchee. Burke gives to Reade of Co. Lincoln: Crest—A shoveller close 
	sa. The crest on Thomas Reade's tomb is clearly a shoveller close. There 
	has been handed down in the family of Gen. William B. Taliaferro a 
	beautiful silver ewer having the Reade arms (as on the tomb above 
	mentioned)— probably inherited from Mildred, daughter of Col. George
	Reade and wife of Col. Augustine Warner who died 18 June, 1681.

TAYLOR:	The crest on the snuff box of Gen. Dick Taylor, son of President 
	Zachary Taylor, corresponds very closely with Taylor of Pennington 
	House, Co. Hants: a dexter arm, embowered in armor, the hand in a 
	gauntlet, grasping a javelin all ppr.  Motto—consequitur quodcunque 
	petit. Members  of the Thompson family have supposed that it came to the 
	Taylors through their family by the marriage of Martha Thompson with 
	James Taylor of Caroline in 1698. (Letters of Dr. A. G. Grinnan.)

STROTHER:  	Gen. Dick Taylor's mother was Sarah Strother, who traced to the 
	Island of Thanet, where is to be seen in the old Strother graveyard 
	tombs with the arms described in Burke: Gu. on a bend ar, three eagles 
	displayed az. Crest—A greyhound sejant or. (Dr. A. G. Grinnan MS 	Sept. 
	13, 1893, enclosing drawing of Strother arms.)
	
COOKE: 	On the tomb (1723) of Mary Booth, (of Ware Parish, Gloucester Co.) 
	who was daughter of Mordecai Cooke of Gloucester Co., Va., are the arms of 
	Booth impaling Cooke—the former corresponding in Burke with Booth of Co. 
	Lancaster, and the latter with Cooke of Whitefield, Co. Suffolk.