The Edwards Family Crest

From William Edwards, Gentleman, born 1620, who, coming from Gloucester, England, settled in Hartford, Ct., in 1639, the pedigree of the Edwards family in America for ten generations is without a flaw. William Edwards bore the coat of arms we give: It appears on his seal, on the silver devised by the will of Jonathan Edwards; and its use has been constant in the family since. He was the only son of Richard Edwards, Fellow of Oxford, one of the Chaplains to Queen Elizabeth, who came from Wales to London in 1580. Richard Edwards, Miles, a Master of the Knights Hospitallers, A.D. 1128, bore the same arms. President Edwards, Aaron Burr, Pierrepont Edwards, and many prominent men were of this family. And many of the leading families of America have, by marriage, the Edwards blood. The rank of Chief of the Wyandots, of the Mohawk Tribe of the Iroquois (Onge-Honwe) Nation, with a Turtle for Totem, conferred on Jonathan Edwards, at a conference at Stockbridge, March 1, 1754, is still extant in

Family

Edwards

Motto

Sola nobilitas virtus.Valor, sole nobility.

Blazon

A Demi-Lion, Rampant, Or, Holding Between The Paws A Castle, Argent.

Source

America Hereldica