Catalogue of the A. D. Weld French Heraldic Collection in the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Library: With Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society Relating to the Same, and a Sketch of the Life of Aaron Davis Weld FrenchThe Society, 1897 - 17 Seiten |
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Seite 8 - JOHN BERNARD. Encyclopaedia of heraldry, or, General armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Seite 6 - Boston. His historic literary researches are shown by his works on " The Surname and Coat of Arms of the Williamses," " Index Armorial," published in 1892; "Frenches of Scotland," published in 1893; "County Records of the Surnames of Francus, Franceis, French in England," published in 1896. He was Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, member of the Scottish History Society, of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society (elected May 2, 1883), Sons of the Revolution, Veteran Corps of...
Seite 9 - Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England, with Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns, by James Dallaway, AM 4to.
Seite 17 - VULSON (Marc de). La Science héroïque traitant de la noblesse et de l'origine des armes; de leurs blasons et symboles...
Seite 16 - MARC GILBERT DE. Le roy d'armes, ou, L'art de bien former, charger, briser, timbrer, parer, expliquer, et blasonner les armoiries.
Seite 11 - Traité de la noblesse et de toutes ses différentes espèces, nouvelle édition, augmentée des traités du blason des armoiries de France, de l'origine des noms sur-noms, et du ban et arrièreban, par De la Roque.
Seite 5 - ... entered the counting-house of Phineas Sprague & Co., in Boston, where he had his first experience in the China business. He joined the independent company of Cadets on the 13th of November, 1856, and in 1859 made his first voyage to China, while in 1860 he represented the business firm of Wetmore, Williams & Co. at Yokohama, Japan. In 1862 he established the second Boston commission house at Nagasaki, Japan, and was for a time the representative member of the United States in the Foreign Council...
Seite 16 - O. 1 v. in 3. WATERS, HENRY F. John Harvard and ancestry. Boston, 1885. O, pp. 24. WHITMORE, WH, ed. Heraldic journal; recording the armorial bearings and genealogies of American families. Vol. 1-4. Boston, 1865-68.
Seite 5 - In 18(i7 he returned to Boston bringing with him the first Japanese officers who completed their education among us, and for a time he made Boston one of the centres for the education of the Japanese. In 1869, he, with two other travellers, was the first to announce in Japan the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad, they having made the trip from New York to Yokohama in thirty travelling days. Before returning home in August of that year the Foreign Office of Japan appointed him the financial...
Seite 5 - December 15, 1835, in the house of his grandfather, John Davis Williams, which stood on the site of the present Catholic Cathedral at the corner of Washington and Maiden streets. He inherited the broad, liberal business views of his grandfather, while his education at Newport, RI, by the Rev. John Overton Choules, the author of several scholarly works, early sowed the seeds for historic research. In 1851 he visited Europe in the company of Mr. Choules, the trip being chronicled in the