The Johnstone Family Crest

The Scotch Earldom of hartfell and Marquisate of Annandale are stated by Burke to be dormant titles since 1792. They are claimed by two different Scotch families; and it is firmly believed, on this side of the ocean, that full researches could establish the legitimate heir of these Scotch titles and valuable estates to be an American citizen. At any rate, three different families of Johnstone, or Johnston [they have all dropped the final e] claim, in this country, descent from the Johnstones of county Dumfries, the first possessors of the Earldom and Marquisate above mentioned. A North Carolina family of repute and distinction, descending from Governor Gabriel Johnston (1734), uses the arms we give. His brother, John, Surveyor General of the Province, was the father of Governor Samuel Johnston, a leading statesman of North Carolina, who died in 1816. A family of Johnston, descended, it is claimed, from a son of one of the last Marquises, settled in Maryland and Virginia, we find a Will

Family

Johnstone

Motto

Nunquam non paratus.Never unprepared.

Blazon

A Winged Spur, Or.

Source

America Hereldica