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He married, October 15, 1873, Emogene Atchin- son, daughter of Daniel Atchinson, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts. She died April 12, 1898. Their children are: I. Stanley H., born July 15, 1879; graduate of Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, 1898; graduate Williams College, class, 1902; graduate Lowell Textile School, 1905; he is a director in the Stanley Woolen Company. 2. Annie A., born January 15, 1887, graduate of Uxbridge high school, 1903; Burnham School of Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, 1905; at present a student of Smith College, class 1909. Mr. Wheelock married, June 12, 1900, Harriet E. Fuller, of Springfield, Massachusetts.
GASKILL FAMILY. Edward Gaskill, the immi- grant ancestor of Albion A. Gaskill and Albert W. Gaskill, of Mendon, and in fact of the entire Gas- kill family in Mendon, was born in England, and was a proprietor of Salem as early as 1636. He was a ship carpenter, and bought a house and land in Salem in 1659. His wife Sarah joined the Salem church in 1639. Their children were: I. Samuel, baptized
August 7, 1639, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, baptized October 10, 1640. 3. Sarah, born May 14, 1643, married Peter Joy, May 24, 1661. 4. Hannah, born March 1, 1645-6. 5. Edward, born April 30, 1648.
(II) Samuel Gaskill, eldest child of Edward Gaskill (1), was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and baptized there August 7, 1639. He settled in Salem where, February 18, 1723-4, he owned four rights to common land in the two lower parishes. He was a proprietor on the lists dated 1713 and 1729.
He married. December 30. 1662, Provided South- wick. Their children: I. Samuel. mentioned be- low. 2. Edward, born October 23, 1667. 3. Han- nah, born January 2, 1669. 4. Provided, born April 22, 1672.
(III) Samuel Gaskill, eldest son of Samuel Gas- kill (2), was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Janu- arv 23. 1663-4. He married Bethiah, daughter of Thomas Gardner. Jr. and wife Hannah. His will dated September 1, 1725, names his children, viz .: I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Nathan, settled in Mendon, where he bought eighty acres of land January 18. 1726. 3. Jonathan, had eighteen acres of land laid out to him in Mendon. February 18. 1837-8: married Alice Pickering, of Salem, and had Jonathan Gaskill, Jr., married Hannah Estes, No-
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vember 20, 1761. 4. Hannah, married David Nichols. 5. Content, unmarried, 1725. 6. Sarah, unmarried, 1725.
(IV) Samuel Gaskill, eldest son of Samuel Gas- kill (3), born in Salem, Massachusetts, about 1690, married Sarah -, and was living in Salem in 1722. He removed to the south parish of Mendon, where he bought a farm April 2, 1736. He died in Mendon about September. 1761. His will men- tions his children as given below. It was dated December 5. 1758, and the inventory of his estate was filed October 28, 1761. Children: 1. Samuel, died before December 5. 1758, leaving children. 2. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 3. Joseph. 4. Stephen. 5. Benjamin. 6. Sarah, married Richard Estes. 7. Huldah, married Benjamin Cook. 8. Elizabeth.
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(V) Ebenezer Gaskill, son of Samuel Gaskill (1). born in Salem, about 1720, married, August 15. 1745, Hannah Gurley (or Girdler) of Salem. They settled in the south parish of Mendon, now the town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. Their chil- dren were: I. George. 2. David, married January 5. 1767-8 Sarah Read, daughter of Jonathan Read. 3. Peter, ancestor of Judge Gaskill. 4. Joseph. 5. Samuel, mentioned below.
(\'1) Samuel Gaskill. youngest son of Ebenezer Gaskill (5), born in Mendon, south parish (now Blackstone ), about 1760, married, May 27, 1784, Olive Cook. Their children: 1. Hannah, born at Mendon, February II, 1785, married Hannah Wil- COX. 2. Nahum, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, born November 18, 1793: married Robert Allen.
(VII) Nahum Gaskill, son of Samuel Gaskill (6), was born in Mendon, south parish (now Black- stone ), May 8, 1788. He settled on the Gaskill homestead at Blackstone, then Mendon, and carried on the farm on a large scale. He was also a pioneer in the flour and grain business in Mendon, and did a tlfriving business. He died May 4, 1860, aged sev- enty-two years; his widow died April 10, 1875, aged eighty-three years. He married Sally South- wick. Their children, all born in Mendon, were : I. John Southwick, born December 12. 1807; mar- ried Harriet E. Staples, who died September 3. 1874. 2. Samuel, born January 14, 1810, died in Hopedale, unmarried, at an advanced age, one of the largest landholders and wealthiest citizens of Mil- ford. 3. Ilannah. born September o, 1811 ; married Abner K. Sprague; she died November 15, 1892. 4. Olive, born June 10, 1813: died a widow July 12, 1881 ; married Elkanah Barrows. 5. Micajah Collins, mentioned below. 6. Mary Thurber, born August 13. 1818; married Willis Gould April 6, 1845; she died March 5. 1808. 7. Almira Fairbanks, born June 8, 1821; married Charles Fletcher. December 8. 1844, he is a contractor. 8. Gilbert, born April 28, 1823; married first, September 1, 1848, Olive WV. Gould; married ( second ), February 18, 1855. Ellen F. Wheelock. Gilbert was a well known farmer and contractor. 9. Nahum, born April 18. 1825: married, July 4, 1850, Fanny Eliza, daughter of Simeon and Diana ( Albee ) Wheelock, and was born in Mendon, 1834; settled in Milford, where he carried on a farm at the Spindleville place with his brother, and later at the junction of the old turnpike and Plain street; died in Hopedale, 1895. 10. Richard George, born March 16, 1827; married first, July 1, 1849, Caroline Rhoda Briggs (second) Serinda Brooks, May 2, 1875: resided in Milford over twenty years, first on the Samuel Warfield farm, later owned by his brother Samuel. Their children : Caroline Diana, born February 11, 1852, married
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Francis S. Collins. February 10, 1871, and they have several children, residing in Chicago; Sally Southwick, born Angust 22, 1854, died March 7, 1858; Richard George, Jr., born March 15, 1857, spindle maker at Spindleville. II. Lewis Boyden, born January 4, 1829; married Annie T, Jenckes, born February 9, 1844, daughter of Ezra and Julia A. (Swan) Jenckes, May 8, 1863; he bought the homestead after the death of his father in 1863; on this place Benjamin Albee built the first corn mill, and there the first settlement was made. 'Mr. Gaskill still occupies the old house built in 1783 by George Kelley; he has acquired a competence farming and dealing in wood and lumber ; has been selectman, overseer of the poor and member of the board of health. 12. Albert Warren, born Decem- ber 28, 1831 ; married Miranda Hill, March 25, 1857, a prominent farmer in Mendon, and a well known Granger: served for thirty consecutive years on the board of selectmen of Mendon, and declined re-election : was highway surveyor there.
(VI]]) Micajah Collins Gaskill, fifth child of Nahum Gaskill (7), was born in Mendon, Sep- tember 26, 1816. He married first, April 7, 1842, and (second) February 12, 1850, Alzada Gould. He settled in Mendon, Massachusetts, and was a well known civil engineer, interested extensively in the railroad business with David Davenport. He assisted in making the surveys for the original steam railroads between Worcester and Barre and Wor- cester to Orange. He has been an engineer on the construction of various other railroads in New England. He has been active in public affairs and has served the town several years as assessor and selectman and has represented the district in the gneral court. Among his children was Albion A., mentioned below.
(VIII) Albert Warren Gaskill, youngest child of Nahum Gaskill (7), was born in Mendon. Massa- chusetts, December 29, 1831. He attended the com- mon schools there and settled in Mendon, follow- ing the example of his forefathers and devoting himself to agriculture. He has one of the finest and most productive dairy farms in the state. He has for many years been one of the leading citizens of the town. He is a Republican in polities, and has represented his distriet in the legislature. Few men have received more honors at the hands of their fellow citizens in old Mendon. He has been high- way surveyor, overseer of the poor. inspector of animals, for thirty years was on the board of select- men and finally declined a re-election. He is a member of the Grange and of the Unitarian church. He married, March 25. 1857, Miranda Hill, daughter of Erastus Hill, of Mendon. Their children: I. Nahum E., born 1858, married Emma Holbrook ; three children. 2. Walter A., born 1861 ; married Harriet Bates; three children. 3. Miloa, born in Mendon. 1863, married Ethel Cook; two children. 4 Bertha, born 1866; married Horace Coleman;
three children. 5. Peter O., born 1868; married Caroline R. Ford: one child. 6. Moses W., born 1860: married Sadie Billings.
(IX) Albion A. Gaskill, son of Micajah Collins Gaskill (8), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, August 18, 1864. He was educated there in the public schools. He remained at home on the farm for a few years, then went to work for the Draper Manufacturing Company as case hardener. He re- turned to the farm and has been successful as a farmer. Mr. Gaskill is a Republican in politics, and a Unitarian in religion. He married, in 1889.
Moses D. Garfield
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Abbie F., daughter of Joseph Hicks, of Sutton, Massachusetts. They have one child: Ralph, born June, 1892, now a student in the high school. i
GARFIELD FAMILY. Edward Garfield (1), the immigrant ancestor of the Millbury branch of the Garfield family, as well in fact of all others of the name in this country, including ex-President Garfield, was of English birth and ancestry. His lineage cannot be traced with certainty, though it is certain that he belonged to the Garfield family of Northampton. William P. W. Phillmore, of Lon- don, who has investigated the English records, thinks that the line may he descended from Thomas Garfield, of Ashby, St. Leger, who lived in 1524. He thinks the Garfields, who were progenitors of Edward of New England, lived in Kilsby and Ashby, St. Leger, in Northampton county, where they set- tled early in the sixteenth century. They were re- spectable yeomen and none seem to have been of noble families or of very great distinction. Most of the writers, including Bond, who is usually so reliable, have the records of Edward and his son Edward hopelessly mixed, because of the great dif- ference in age between his children born in England and those born in New England.
Edward Garfield was born in England, in 1575, died June 14, 1672, aged about ninety-seven years. He settled early at Watertown, where he became a proprietor and was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. He was selectman in 1638-55-62. His will was dated December 30. 1668, and was proved Au- gust II, 1672. He bequeathed to his sons Samuel, Joseph and Benjamin: daughters Rebecca Mixter and Abigail Garfield; grandchildren Sarah Park- hurst and Sarah and Ephraim Garfield and to his wife. The widow made will March 8, 1676-7, and it was proved August 17. 1676. She bequeathed to her three daughters Marie, Dorcas and Sarah ; her granddaughter, Elizabeth Spowell; her grand- daughter, Johanna Lawrence and her son, Jabez Buckmaster. He married Rebecca who died April 16, 1661, aged fifty-five years. (She may have been second wife). He married again September I. 1661, Mrs. Joanna Buckminster or Buckmaster, of Brookline, widow of Thomas Buck- minster.
The children of Edward and were: Ed- ward, one of the early proprietors of Watertown. not mentioned in his father's will: Samuel, see forward. The children of Edward and Rebecca Garfield were: Joseph, born September 11, 1637, married, April, 1663, Sarah Gale; he died August 22, 1692; Rebecca, born March 10, 1640, married, January. 1660, Isaac Mixer, Jr., their son Benjamin settled in Southhoro; Captain Benjamin, ancestor of President Garfield, born 1643, married Mehitable Hawkins and (second) Elizabeth Bridges: Abigail, horn June 29. 1646, when her father was about eighty years old.
(II) Samuel Garfield. son of Edward Garfield (1). was born in England. about 1620. He also set- tled in Watertown and was a proprietor there be- fore 1640. Some of his children and descendants settled in Lancaster. His will made September 15, 1684, was proved December 16. 1684. It mentions his wife Mary: sons Samuel and Ephraim : brother Benjamin and Richard Child, overseer. The will of his widow Mary of Lancaster, dated January, 1708-00, mentions her step-son, Ephraim Garfield, grandchildren. Daniel and Elizabeth Garfield, daugh- ter Rachel Priest, daughter Deborah Brook, daughter
Ann Jackson, daughter Mercy Bury, grandchildren John and Mary Noble, Sarah Parkhurst, Sarah and. Ephraim Garfield.
Samuel married (first) Susannah -, who died May 2. 1652. He married (second), September 28, 1652, Mary Benfield, by whom he had fourteen more children. He died November 20, 1684, aged about sixty years.
The children of Samuel and Susannah Garfield were: John, born February 8, 1645-46, died 1649; Ephraim, see forward. Children of Samuel and Mary Garfield were: Mary, born June 30, 1653; Sarah, born January 17, 1654-55, married - Guile ; Rachel, born November 23, 1656, married - Priest, of Lancaster; Elizabeth, born December 8, 1659; Deborah, born about 1661, married - Brook ; John, horn July 7, 1664: Ruth, born April 25, 1666; Lydia, born August 31, 1668; Daniel, born No- vember 5, 1670; Mercy, born February 18, 1673-74, married - - Bury; Elizabeth, born September 16, 1676: Anna, married Jackson; Daniel, born February 13. 1683-84.
(III) Ephraim Garfield. son of Samuel Gar- field (2), was born in Watertown, November 20, 1649. He resided at Lancaster and was doubtless driven away by the Indians, as very little can be found about him. It is presumed that the two children mentioned by his step-mother in her will after his name, Daniel and Elizabeth, were his chil- dren. He was living in 1708-09, when Daniel was about of age, so perhaps there were no other chil- dren.
(IV) Daniel Garfield, son of Ephraim Garfield (3) and grandson of Samuel Garfield (2), was born about 1688. He died July 15, 1757, aged sixty- nine years. He was mentioned in the will of his grandmother Garfield. He married Mary -. He was one of the early settlers of Shrewsbury. He was admitted to the church there in 1728 and was in 1729 living there on lot No. 10. His widow died there January 10, 1767. Their children were : Eliza- beth. born ahout 1720. admitted to the church, 1738. died February 5, 1740: Daniel, Jr., born in Shrews- bury. April 16. 1722, town records of Shrewsbury : Ebenezer, born June 23. 1724: Mary, born April 13. 1727. admitted to the church. 1742; Moses, born April 4. 1729, see forward: Aaron, born October 22, 1736.
(V) Moses Garfield, son of Daniel Garfield (4). was born at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, April 4, 1729. Moses Garfield served in the revolution as a surgeon; he' was in the company of Captain Zaccheus Wright, regiment of Colonel Cyprian How. He was the owner of a powder horn which he carried throughout his period of service in the revolutionary war, and which is now in the posses- sion of Chester A. Garfield. The horn is three and a half inches in diameter at the base, sixteen inches from base to tip. or nineteen inches if meas- utred along the curve of the horn. It bears this in- scription. running lengthwise of the horn "M. G. S. Moses Garfield 1747." The letters are supposed to stand for Moses Garfield, Surgeon. A fancy horder is carved around the hase, and about six inches from the tip is cut a horder of scallops. From the base of the horn to this border the space is filled in with carvings of different figures and elaborate scrolls. Some of the figures represented are a house, two full rigged ships. two large fishes and a figure which Leonard Garfield calls the Gar- field Coat of Arms. The spaces between these larger figures is filled in with trees, hearts, wheels and
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fancy scrolls. The empty horn, without the strap to carry it by, weighs fifteen ounces. During an epidemic of small pox in Warwick, Dr. Moses Gar- field, in caring for the victims, contracted the disease in a violent form and died after a very short ill- ness. Owing to the horror which people of those days felt of small pox, he was buried under a pile of stones in a remote corner of Warwick, some- where near the New Hampshire line. Dr. Garfield was a man whose ideas of medicine were much in advance of his time; he gave cold water in cases of fever, and although he was very successful in his treatment, was made so uncomfortable on ac- count of his views that he was obliged to move into the wilderness. He settled in Shrewsbury and mar- ried, January 19, 1749, Sarah Writford. Their chil- dren, all born at Shrewsbury, were: Joshua, see for- ward; Elizabeth, born February 10. 1754; Joseph, born June 10, 1756, removed to Warwick, Massa- chusetts, and married, 1778, Elizabeth Brewer, of Shrewsbury; John, born August 14, 1759.
(VI) Joshua Garfield, son of Moses Garfield (5). was born at Shrewsbury, December 23, 1751, died May 6, 1828, aged seventy-six years, at Royals- ton. He was a soldier in the revolution. He went to Warwick and bought a farm which he afterwards exchanged for one in Royalston, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Rawson. of Sutton, Massachusetts, who died March 15. 1831, aged seventy-five years. She was therefore born about 1756. Her great- grandchildren have now in their possession some superb specimens of her needle-work. Their chil- dren were: Charles, born August 6, 1776; Moses, born in Warwick, Massachusetts. December 7. 1777, see forward; Artemas, born September 30. 1779; Lucy, born October 23, 1781: Nelly, born January 15. 1784: Joshua (twin), born July 12, 1786; Caleb (twin), born July 12, 1786; Anna, born October 10, 1788: Abigail (twin), born December 8, 1791; John (twin), born December 8, 1791; Hannah, born June 25. 1791.
(VII) Moses Garfield, son of Joshua Garfield (6). was born in Warwick, Massachusetts, about 1780. He died at West Royalston, May 7, 1860, aged eighty-one. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He lived at Royalston and was a farmer all his active years. He married, February 6, 1799, Mary Bliss, who died August 3, 1836, aged fifty- six years. He married (second) Mrs. Mary Reed, of Winehendon, November 30. 1837. The children of Moses and Mary (Bliss) Garfield were: Eri, born February 14. 1802. died May 10, 1802: Mary, born October 25, 1803, died April 24, 1806; Gardner, born November 5, 1805, died March 2, 1883; Ansel Holmes, born April 21, 1807; Andrew Bliss, see forward: Ira, born March 25, 1810. died May 10, 1810; Susan Maria, born March 25, 1811 ; Nancy, born February 9, 1813: Joshua, born March 24, 1814. died April 5. 1814: Moses. born October II, 1816: Abigail Rawson, horn July 16, 1820: Julia Atherton. born August 17, 1824. (Records call her mother Patty, evidently an error for Polly).
(VIII) Andrew Bliss Garfield, son of Moses Garfield (7), was born at Royalston, Massachu- setts. January 8. 1800. He was educated there and worked during his youth and early manhood on the farm. He learned the trade of millwright while a young man, but later purchased a farm and spent the greater part of his time thereon. He settled in Millbury, Massachusetts, and worked in the con- struction and changes of many of the mills of the Blackstone valley. He died May 28, 1894.
Mr. Garfield married, January S, 1835, Hannah D. Dwinell, of Millbury, who died April 3, 1892. Their children, born in Millbury, were: Moses Dwinell, see forward; Andrew Paine, see forward ; Hannah Eliza, born March 29, 1839: Julia Goddard, born March 6, 1841, died August 21, 1842; Susan Maria, born June 4, 1842; Leonard Dwinell, see forward.
(IX) Moses Dwinell Garfield, eldest son of An- drew Bliss Garfield (8), was born in Auburn, but recorded in Millbury, Massachusetts, November 28, 1835. His parents moved to Millbury, the birthplace of his mother, when he was only three months old. He attended the public schools of Millbury, and at the age of twenty-one went to work for Ezra Marble, of Sutton, Massachusetts, a manufacturer of shut- tles of all descriptions, and was in his employ nearly all the time until June, 1863, when the shuttle busi- ness of the firm of Chase, Wilder & Clark, of Wil- kinsonville, Massachusetts, was bought out, and the business was continued under the firm name of Wilder. Searles and Garfield. In the summer of 1864, during the civil war, the price of gold was so high and so fluctuating, that the porcelain shuttle eves which are put into the sides of the shuttles for the thread to pass through in the process of weaving were not imported, and it became impossible to get them. They were then forced to take them from worn out shuttles, thus obtaining a very limited supply and causing much inconvenience. Mr. Gar- field was therefore strongly impressed with the idea that these shuttle eyes should be made in this coun- try, and that the manufacturers should not be ob- liged to depend upon importation for them. Think- ing the subject over, he became convinced that he could make the necessary equipment for manu- facturing porcelain shuttle eyes. In the fall of 1864, Mr. Garfield sold his interest in the shuttle busi- ness to his partner, Mr. Wilder, and turned his at- tention to preparing an outfit for making the shuttle eyes. After making the necessary tools and ma- chines, he purchased a place in Millbury, situated on Greenwood street, near Taintor Hill road, and commenced their manufacture, and has continued it to the present time (1906), a period of over forty years, supplying the demands of the country. For the past twenty years, in addition to the manu- facture of the shuttle eyes, he has made thread compressors of the same material which. when completed, is harder than the hardest of steel. The holes of these compressors have to be made very accurately, different sizes being one one-thou- sandth of an inch apart. Many of these com- pressors have been exported, as they are not made anywhere else. He has also made many styles of thread guides, which are used for various purposes in mills. He has also practiced surveying during the past forty years for the accommodation of his townspeople.
This brief account of his active career demon- strates quite plainly the characteristics of Mr. Gar- field. who is a man of the strictest integrity, and his example should serve as an incentive to young men about to embark in a business life, and should teach them not to miss an opportunity to progress in whatever line they are following. He is a Re- publican in politics, but has never cared for public office. although he has served as highway surveyor of the town, and has taken an active interest in public improvements. He and his family are regular attendants and members of the First Congregational Church at Millbury, Massachusetts.
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Mr. Garfield married, 1863, Eliza A. Burnap, daughter of Elijah Burnap, of Sutton, Massachu- setts. She was born August 29, 1836, died Febru- ary 12, 1888. Their children were: Elizabeth Mary, born March 22, 1867, graduate of the Millbury high school, 1885; Flora M., born February 9, 1870, died November 4, 1880.
(IX) Andrew Paine Garfield, son of Andrew Bliss Garfield (8), was born at Millbury, Massa- chusetts, July 12, 1837. He was brought up on the homestead in Millbury, and educated there in the public schools. He turned his attention to farm- ing and has been very successful. His house is on Old Common Square; it was built in 1772 by Dr. James Freeland, who died there and is buried in the Dwinell cemetery on the Auburn road. Mr. Gar- field is a Republican in politics. a Congregationalist in religion, and a member of Millbury Grange, No. 107, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was treas- urer for nine years.
Mr. Garfield married, November 19, 1896, Mrs. Emma Harwood Bemis, of Barre, born May 26, 1854, daughter of Wilcut and Abigail Rawson (Gar- field) Harwood, who were the parents of two chil- dren : Julia Maria, wife of David B. Hilton, of Barre, Massachusetts ; and Emma, wife of Andrew P. Garfield. Wilcut Harwood was born January 29, 1819, in Barre, where he now resides; he has followed the occupation of farming throughout the active years of his life. His wife, who was the last survivor of a family of twelve children, died April 7, 1900.
(IX) Leonard Dwinell Garfield, son of Andrew Bliss Garfield (8), was born at Millbury, Massa- chusetts. August 18, 1844. He resides at Cambridge. and is inspector of buildings. He is a veteran of the civil war, having served at Fort Warren, Massa- chusetts. He married (first), November, 1874, Adelaide Elizabeth Dutton, who died March, 1878. Married (second), April 11, 18So, Leoniel Thomson. His children are: Oscar, born 1877. died 1878. This is the child of his first marriage. Chester A., horn January 6, 1881, married, January, 1906, Mabel Young; Walter T., born February 8, 1882; Merton L., born July 16, 1885; Mildred E., born Octo- ber 31. 1893: Norman W., born September 9. 1895. The Garfield coat-of-arms consisted of a shield, with a gold ground, three horizontal crimson bars crossing it in one corner, over it a helmet with a raised visor, together with a heart, and above the whole an arm 'wielding a sword, on which was in- scribed the motto, "In cruco vinco" (Through faith I conquer). A coat-of-arms formerly was a habit worn by knights over their armor. It was a short- sleeved coat or tunic. reaching to the waist, and embroidered with their armorial ensigns and various devices.
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