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

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Coats-Of-Arms in Virginia

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4.
   (Apr., 1896), pp. 269-270.

                           COATS-OF-ARMS IN VIRGINIA.

   CAMM. - Book-plate of President John Camm.  See page 278.

   STRACHEY. - Book-plate of John.  See next No.

   BAKER. - An old deed of Henry Baker, in possession of Richard H. Baker, Esq., of Norfolk,
bears a wax seal with the arms given in Burke (Co. Kent): Ar on a fesse nebulee betw; three
Keys, Sa., a tower triple towered of the first.

   TAYLOE. - The original will of John Tayloe, of "Mt. Airy", dated January 1, 1744, proved
November 2, 1747, has two beautiful seals in black wax, bearing a "sword between two lions
addorsed".  (Richmond Co. Records).

   REID. - The original will of James Reid, merchant, of Urbanna, Middlesex county, dated
1763, proved Jan. 3, 1764.  Has a black wax seal with a chevron between three eagles's heads.
Crest:  An eagle's head.  He died without issue, leaving a legacy to his sister, Jean Reid,
of the Shire of Air, in Scotland, and after establishing

Page 270.

a free school in Middlesex county, leaves the residue to his friend David Ker, attorney at
law.

   ATKINSON. - Mrs. Martha C. Valentine, of Richmond, Virginia, sends a sketch of a coat-of-
arms, copied from a silver waiter, once belonging to Roger Atkinson, of "Mannsfield", in
Dinwiddie county, and now in the possession of Mrs. Dutlow, of Charleston, W. Va., who is a
granddaughter of Roger Atkinson.  It bears the arms assigned in Burke to Atkinson, of New-
castle:  Ar. an eagle displayed with two heads sa. on a chief gu.; a rose between to martlets
or.

   GARLICK. - Since the last issue I have received from Mrs. John B. Minor, of the University
of  Virginia, a photograph of the other side of the beautiful silver bowl, once the property
of Edward Garlick, Sr.  It bears a shield bearing Ar, three heads of Garlick ppr.  (See
January number.)

   EPES. - I have seen a dainty toddy ladle, of undoubted age, in the possession of a member
of distinguished Epes family of Virginia, which bears a crest corresponding to the Epes, of
Canterbury, England: On a chaplet vert. flowered or, a falcon rising of the last.