The Brattle Family Crest
The arms we give are found on the seal of Thomas Brattle, who was for twenty years Treasurer of Harvard College, and died in 1713. His father, Captain Thomas Brattle, the founder of the American family of the name, married a Miss Tyng, in 1657, and had three sons and four daughters. He died in 1683, possessed of a very large fortune. Curious to say, we do not find the arms we give under the name of Brattle in any English work on heraldry. However, the family of Batten, or Battyn, of Exeter, bears the same devices. Is there any common origin? We do not pretend to answer this question. As for the arms given by Mr. S. G. Drake, in his History and Antiquities of Boston, they are found in Burke as borne by a family of Brattle. But they have no analogy with the coat we give, as having been used by the original Brattles.
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