Coats-of-Arms in Virginia; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 4, No. 3

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COATS-OF-ARMS IN VIRGINIA.

   CHAPMAN AND PEARSON. - In a Will of Constantia Chapman, wife of Nathaniel Chapman & dau.
of Simon Pearson Gent. of Overwharton Parish Stafford Co, there occurs the following bequest:
   "I give & bequeath unto each of my three grand-children H. C.

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Weems, Jas. Wm Locke Weems, & Sarah Louisa Weems the sum of 5 Guineas to be laid out for them
in silver plate as their mother should think proper, the said plate to be engraved with the
Arms of the Chapman and Pearson Familys."  The Will was dated Nov. 2, 1768.
   On a heavy silver salver now owned by Mrs. Susan Swann Calvert of Alexandria, the above
combined arms are to be found.
   Chapman as described in Burke:  "Per chev. argent and gu. in the centre a crescent counter-
changed".  A good deal of old silver (run over into modern forms by its then owner) bore the
crest, an arm embowed in armour holding a broken spear encircled with a wreath, while an old
seal ring showed both arms & crest with the motto, "Crescit sub pondere virtus".
   The Pearson Arms on this old piece of silver are described in Dictionary of Arms as
earson or Pierson (Londn), "Per fess embattled az. and gu. three suns or".  No crest on plate,
nor motto.  The will is on record at Stafford Courthouse.
   Mr. Stanard also found the will of Mrs. Hannah Pearson, proved December 13, 1748.  She
names grandson Travers Cooke, granddau. Hannah Cooke, gr-da Hannah Daniel, gr-dau Elizabeth
Travers Daniel, daus Elizabeth Cooke & Sarah Daniel.  She was dau. of Jos. Ball, half sister
of Mary Washington, the widow of Raleigh Travers.
   The will of Simon Pearson, Gent., probated 1733, mentions his wife Hannah; and Elizabeth
Cooke is witness to a wish expressed on the death bed and set forth in a codicil.  Whether
Hannah Pearson was mother or step-mother to Pearson children remains to be proved. F.B.H.

   PARKER. - On an old seal-ring owned by Capt. Wm. Haward Parker, U.S. & C.S.N., of the
Parkers of Westmoreland county, Virginia - K.M.R.
   (What is the description?) - Editor.

   METCALF. - Family of Richard, of Richmond county, descended from Metcalf, of Bristol.
Arms: Argent three calves passant sable.  See Richmond county records for opinion of Robert
Carter in case Edward Barrow vs. Gilbert Metcalf (1712) and Foster's Pedigrees of Yorkshire;
Families of North and East Riding.

   BRERETON. - Jane Claiborne, daughter of Col. William Claiborne, patented 1,450 acres in
Northumberland in 1657.  She married Col. Thomas Brereton, and had: 1, Henry; 2, Thomas;
3. Elizabeth.  Col. Thomas Brereton (will pr. June 4, 1688) married, 2dly,

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in 1671, Grace, widow of Richard Span.  Capt. Thomas Brereton, his son (will dated March 23,
1698, proved August 16, 1699), married twice, and had Thomas by a first marriage (he died at
ten years), and by a second marriage with Mary ---, who married 2dly, Leonard Howson (L. H.'s
will was dated December 13, 1703, proved February 21, 1704-'5), had a daughter named Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, first named, sister of Capt. Thomas Brereton, and daughter of Col. Thomas Brereton
and Jane Claiborne, married Capt. Thomas Winder, and had Elizabeth, aged 20 years in 1711,
and then wife of Richard Kenner.  The will of R.K. was proved January 18, 1726-'27.  It
mentions wife Elizabeth, daughter Hannah, sons Rodham and Richard, sisters Elizabeth Debutts,
Frances Spellman, and Hannah Cralle.  Leonard Howson left to his "daughter-in-law Elizabeth"
a ring with her grandfather Brereton's coat-of-arms upon it.  Capt. Henry Brereton (supra)
had a son Thomas, apparently of age before 1703.  And in 1736 Thomas Brereton, of Shotwick
Park, Co. Chester, England, conveyed land in Richmond Co., Virginia, devised by Salisbury
Lloyd, late of Ledbrook in Co. Flint, England, eldest son of John Lloyd, late of the city of
Chester, Eng., deceased, to whom the land was conveyed in 1708 by Gilbert Metcalf, of London,
merchant.  John Lloyd was executor of Col. William Lloyd, of Richmond Co., Virgnia, who died
about 1704.

   LANGBORNE. - There is a tombstone in King William Co. of William Langborne, who married
Susannah Smith, of Shooter's Hill.  He was born in 1723, and was the sone of Robert Langborne,
of Fetter Lane, London, and Mary Dandridge, sister (?) of Col. Wililam Dandridge.  The tomb-
stone bears two chevrons for Langborne, impaling a lion's head between three mascles, for
Dandridge.  William Langborne was the father of Col. William Langborne, of the Revolution,
whose broken tombstone is near his father's.

   BECKWITH-BUTLER. - "Mr. Lawrence Washington has an interesting silver waiter, belonging
at one time to the Butler family, inherited by a branch of the Washingtons from Jane Butler,
with the Beckwith coat of arms on it.  I send you a tracing of it - rather too faint, I am
afraid". - Miss Kate Mason Rowland.
   These arms indicate quarters: 1st and 4th, a chevron between three hinds' heads, for
Beckwith; 2d and 3d, a chief indented and a saltire, for Butler.  Crest:  out of a plume of
feathers a falcon rising, for Butler.

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   GARLICK. - There is a beautiful silver bowl, now owned by Mrs. John B. Minor, of the
University of Virginia (nee Miss Ellen Hill), of which I have a photograph from one side.
It bears on the rim a bird pecking at a leek, and on the side the words:  "The gift of
Edward Garlick Senr Esqr to the Eldest Branch of His Family."  I am told that there is a
drawing of the arms on the other side of the bowl, but I have no description.