The Standish Family Crest

Captain Myles Standish, the celebrated phigrim Father, born in Lancashire (circa 1584), descended from Thurston de Standish (tempo. III.). The branch of Duxbury, Co. Lancaster, from which the emigrant descended, originated with Hugh Standish (tempo. Edward I.), and adopted the reformed religion. The records of the parish of Chorley, with which the family estate is connected, were examined recently by the agents of the American Standishes; and, it is said, ""that these records were easily deciphered with the exception of the years 1584 and 1585, the very dates about which Captain Myles Standish is supposed to have been born; the parchment-leaf which contained the registers of the births of these years being wholly illegible, and showing evident traces of having been tampered with.""Myles was educated to the military profession, and early received a commission as Lieutenant of Queen Elizabeth's forces on the continent, in aid of the Dutch. He soon joined the English refugees at Leyden, a

Family

Standish

Blazon

A Cock, Argent, Combed And Wattled, Gules.

Source

America Hereldica