===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: GEN-MAT-HX-L@rootsweb.com From: "Helen" <Helenh@pdq.net> Subject: 1904 Register of American Families-See Some Names Crozier's General Armory, A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor, ed. William Armstrong Crozier, 1904, presumed first edition. This was a former library book and does have a label inside the front cover, a call number on the spine in gilt, and the name of the library pricked out in small holes, and the accession number stamped. Wine colored cloth covered hardback with gilt printing (cover a little grimy), 6-1/4 x 9-1/2, viii plus 155 pages, the book has the following other known flaws: the title page is close to being separated - all other pages well bound; there are several pages with repaired tears, but otherwise, this 103 year old book is in good condition; the pages are supple, the binding tight, no markings save for those of the library and the condition of the text pages is a pleasant suprise. While there is no table of contents, the book begins with a good study of heraldry in America and those entitled to coat armory. This is followed by a surname alphabetical listing of those entitled - first by surname, state, then the individual person entitled, their city of residence and date, followed by a description of the armes, the crest, and the motto. An example might be: "ABERCROMBIE. Pennsylvania. James Abercrombie, Philadelphia, 1750. (Dundee) Argent, a fesse engrailed gules, between three boars' heads couped azure. CREST: A bee volant ppr. MOTTO: Mens in arduis aequa." Following all the names is an Addenda page; then the Arms of the Thirteen Original States; a Glossary of Heraldic Terms; then a Dictionary of Terms Used in the Registry. Lastly is an explanation of the responsibilities of the association regarding: Record Searching; Coats-of-Arms; Genealogical Printing. The book refers only to those specific Americans entitled to arms. Abbot, Abbott, Abell, Abercrombie, Abercromby, Aberton, Abrahall, Achard, Achey, Ackers, Adair, Adams, Adamson, Addington, Adger, Agnew, Aiken, Ainslie, Aitcheson, Akerly, Alanson, Albro, Alcock, Alden, Aldrich, Alexander, Alger, Allan, Allen, Alleyne, Alling, Almy, Alsop, Alst, Ambler, Ames, Amory, Anable, Anderson, Andrews, Applegate, Appleton, Apthorp, Armistead, Armstrong, Arnold, Ashby, Ashurst, Ashley, Ashton, Aspinwall, Aston, Atherton, Atkins, Atkinson, Atlee, Atwater, Atwell, Austin, Avery, Axtell, Ayer, Backus, Bacon, Bagley, Bailey, Baillie, Bainbridge, Baker, Balche, Baldwin, Ball, Ballentine, Bamburgh, Bancroft, Banks, Barber, Barclay, Bard, Barker, Barlow, Barnard, barnes, Barnwell, Bare, Barr, Barrett, Barron, Barry, de Barry, Bartholomew, Bartlett, Barton, Bascom, Bassett, Batchelder, Bateman, Baxter, Bayard, Baynton, Beach, Beale, Beckwith, Bedford, Beekman, Belcher, Belknap, Bell, Bellas, Bellingham, Bellows, Bennett, Benney, Benjamin, Benson, Bernard, Bethune, Betts, Berry, Bleecker, Bliss, bliven, Bloss, Blossom, Boas, Bockee, Bolles, Bolling, Bolton, Bond, Bonner, Bonnett, Boone, Booraem, Booth, Borden, Borland, Bosworth, Bourke, Boutelle, Bowen, Bowie, Bowles, Boyd, Boyle, Boylston, Boynton, Bradburn, Bradford, Bradley, Bradstreet, Brady, Brattle, Brearley, Breesem Brenton, Brereton, Brewster, ...more next time.