The Skaats Family Crest
The emigrant, Dominie Gideon Schaets, became in 1652 the second Minister of the Dutch Church at Beverwyck (Albany). He was brought over, in 1650, by the Dutch East India Company. Gideon Schaets was born in Beest, Holland, in 1611. One of his sons, Bartholomeus, became Chamberlain of the Government (or Stadt) House, at New Amsterdam, and he is mentioned by Washington Irving in his humorous history of New York. In 1858 the family was known to have in its possession an ancient coat of arms, painted on wood before 1700.
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- Family
- Skaats
- Blazon
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A Demi-Winged Horse, Salient.
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America Hereldica