The Mountfort Family Crest

The Mountforts, of Boston and of Portland, spring from Edmund Mountfort, who was a London merchant, who settled in Boston in 1656. His brother, Henry, accompanied him; and a third brother, Benjamin, joined them in 1675, but died without issue. The only son of Henry, Ebenezer, died also without issue (1716), so that the Mountforts of New England all descend from the above-mentioned Edmund. The tombstone of his son, John, is found in the Copp's Hill churchyard, Boston (1724), bearing the arms we give, which belong to the famous English house of Mountfort of Beamhurst Hall, county Stafford, claiming descent from Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. A pedigree exists tracing descent to another Simon Mountfort (1633), who was the father of the colonists.

Family

Mountfort

Blazon

A Lion's Head, Erased [Found On The Tombstone].

Source

America Hereldica