The Hamersley Family Crest

William Hamersley, a grandson of Sir Hugh Hamersley, Knt., Mayor of London (1627), and one of the great merchants of the English metropolis, came to America in 1716, as an officer in the Royal Navy. His letter of appointment (dated 1700), is still in the possession of the New York Hamersleys. William married a Dutch lady, and settled in New York as one of its leading merchants. Vestryman of Trinity Church (1731-1752) he was buried in its burial ground. His son, Andrew Hamersley, was commissioned in the British Army, but resigned at his father's request, and married a greatgranddaughter of Sir George Gordon, of the New Jersey Gordons. Having remained a tory, the Revolution impaired his fortune, but it was soon reëstablished with the help of two large inheritances in the West Indies. A brother of William Hamersley, the colonist, went to Maryland, and one of his descendants, Hugh Hamersley, was a trustee of the province, as executor of the will of the last Lord Baltimore. That branch inte

Family

Hamersley

Motto

Honore et amore.With honor and love.

Blazon

A Demi-Griffin, Or, Holding Between The Claws A Cross Crosslet, Fitchde, Gules.

Source

America Hereldica