Hi all,

I recently built a website for a local horse farm and, finding that they had no logo, suggested a coat-of-arms to represent the farm. The farm owners were all for it, so I got to work on a new design. The farm livery is navy and gold and it was named after the owner’s maiden name, Seabury.

My first design (which I liked very much) was a kind of cant: Per fess engrailed Or and Azure a hippocamp counterchanged.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e221/pblanton/Seabury/Seahorse2.jpg

I was then informed that this was a nice design, but the owner had a “family coat of arms” somewhere back home in MA. Remembering our wonderful reference on Early American Arms, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Hall and Mr. McMillan, I found the Seabury arms and asked if they looked familiar. With an affirmative response, I asked if she was related to Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, to which I was given the response of “are you psychic?” As it turns out, she is a direct descendant of Rev. Samuel. These are his arms courtesy of Mr. Hall:

http://americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/seabury.jpg

Using this information, I created nine new shields, of which was chosen the following:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e221/pblanton/Seabury/SF.jpg

I’m not a fan of lettering or numbering on a shield, but when the client is adamant about it what do you do? Anywho, just thought I’d share.

Take care,