National Society Colonial Dames

 
Jeremy Keith Hammond
 
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Jeremy Keith Hammond
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15 July 2013 10:05
 

Found this at my local library. Decent black and white illustrations containing mostly arms of society members registered/recorded with the NEHGS. This was published in the early 1990’s I believe.

http://www.jeremyhammond.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/colonialdames.jpg

 

I then found reference online to a 2nd volume published later.

 
Jeffrey Boyd Garrison
 
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15 July 2013 21:04
 

The NSCD website shows what I presume to be the arms of the society on the main webpage: http://www.nscda.org/site3/index2.php  ....interesting.

 
Nick B II
 
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15 July 2013 23:29
 

Jeffrey Boyd Garrison;99878 wrote:

The NSCD website shows what I presume to be the arms of the society on the main webpage: http://www.nscda.org/site3/index2.php  ....interesting.


I think I recognize those Arms. The first quarter is supposed to be England, the second quarter France, the third Sweden, and the fourth the Netherlands. The Swedish and Dutch Arms are hard to recognize, because some small (but very important) charges have been removed.

 

IIRC the justification was that these four kingdoms were the ones active in America during the relevant colonial period. I have no idea why the Spanish were excluded, I suspect it’s because they never controlled land in the original 13 colonies.

 
Joseph McMillan
 
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16 July 2013 09:11
 

It’s easy enough to know why they use these arms.  The General Society of Colonial Wars does much the same thing, mainly with the arms of the colonies instead of those of the parent countries.

http://www.gscw.org/images/flash.jpg

 

That doesn’t make either of them good heraldry.  In fact, it’s bad heraldry.  I suppose the best that can be said is that at least they’re using heraldry.

 
Jeffrey Boyd Garrison
 
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16 July 2013 17:22
 

You know Jeremey, it wouldn’t be copyright infringement to scan a page or two for "review" purposes. wink