The Schenck Family Crest

The ancient family of Schencks, in America, is divided into two branches, represented at the head of each by Roelof and Jan Martense Schenck, of Nieu Amersfoort, now Flatlands, Long Island, N. Y., who emigrated from Utrecht, Holland, in 1650. Through their grandfather, the famous General Peter Schenck Von Nydeck, they descended from the ancient family of Toutenburg, and, more closely, from the branch of Nydeck, or Nydeggen. Johannes Schenck, who, at the age of twenty-seven years, emigrated from Middleburg, Holland, in 1683, and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, is admitted to have belonged to the same stock. We give, properly quartered, the arms of the two families: 1 and 4, Toutenburg; 2 and 3, Nydeggen.

Family

Schenck

Blazon

A Demi-Lion, Or, Langued, Gules, Armed, Azure, Issuing From A German Baron's Coronet, Or.

Source

America Hereldica