American Heraldry Society

ROLL OF EARLY AMERICAN ARMS - I

ARM NAME BLAZON COMMENTS SOURCE
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d' (Ville-Marie, Canada, 1661-Havana, 1706; in Louisiana 1697-1702)

Azure three roses Or on a chief Gules a crescent between two stars Or

Founder and first governor of Louisiana; founder of Biloxi

Armorial du Canada français
Ingersoll, Jared (New Haven, 1749-Philadelphia, 1822)

Or two pallets Gules

Arms on bookplate; member of Continental Congress, Pennsylvania attorney general.

Bolton
1. Ingersoll, Richard (of Salem, Mass, 1629)
2. Ingersoll, John (of Salem, Mass, 1629)
3. Ingersoll, Thomas (Westfield, Mass, 1692-1748)

Gules a fess dancetty Ermine between six trefoils slipped Or

3. Embroidery by his daughter Ann Ingersoll, 1758.

1. Crozier 1
2. Crozier 1
3. Bolton
Inglis, John (of Philadelphia, 1736)

Azure a lion rampant on a chief Argent three mullets Azure

Arms on bookplate

Crozier 1, Bolton
Inglis, Mungo (in Williamsburg, Va., 1700)

Gules on a bend between two [unidentified charges] three eagles displayed.

Wax seal on deed dated 1700.

Crozier 2, Bolton
Inglis, Rev. Charles (of New York, c. 1780s)

Azure a lion rampant on a chief Or three mullets Gules.

Memorial tablet to his wife, who d. 1783, St. Paul's Chapel, New York City. Original tinctures uncertain.

Bolton
Ingraham, Solomon (Norwich, Conn, c 1765-Madras, India, 1805)

Ermine on a fess Gules three escallops Or

Bookplate by Richard Brunton

Bolton
Innes, Col James [?] (to North Carolina, ca 1734)

Argent three estoiles and on a bordure Azure eight plates.

Bookplate.

Bolton
Iredell, James (Edenton, N.C., 1751-99)

Ermine two bendlets Gules.

Framed painting.

Bolton
Iredell, James (Edenton, N.C., 1751-99)

Ermine on a bend cotised Sable three arrows bendwise [Argent?]

Bookplate.

Bolton
Irving, William (to Massachusetts, 1763)

Argent three sheaves of holly, each of three leaves, slipped Vert banded Gules

Arms on bookplate.

Crozier 1, Bolton
1. Irwin, William (in Dutchess Co, NY, 1700)

Argent a mural crown Gules between three holly leaves palewise Vert.

Crozier 1
Iselin, Isaac (of New York by 1801)

Gules three roses Argent barbed and seeded proper.

1783-1841; from Basel, Switzerland

NEHGS #496
Isham, Henry (of Henrico Co, Va, 1656)

Gules a fess wavy in chief three piles wavy Argent

Described as new arms. See above.

NEHGS #309
Isham, Henry (of Henrico Co, Va, 1656)

Gules three piles wavy over all a fess Or

Seal. NEHGS describes as old arms. See below.

Crozier 2, Bolton, NEHGS #309
Isham, John (of Barnstable, Mass, 1670)

Gules three piles wavy pilewise Argent

Crozier 1, Matthews
1. Ives, Benjamin (Beverly, Mass, 1720-67)
2. Ives, Robert Hale (Beverly, Mass, 1744; d. at sea, 1773)
3. Ives, Thomas Poynton (Beverly, Mass, 1769-Providence, 1839)

Argent a chevron between three Moors' heads couped Sable.

1. Bookplate
2. Embroidery by his sister Rebecca Ives Gilman (1746-1823); son of Benjamin Ives, #1
3. Bookplate (with a label for difference); son of Robert H. Ives, #2

1. Bolton, Matthews
2. Bolton
3. Bolton
Izard [Izzard], Ralph (The Elms, Berkeley Co, S.C., 1742-Charleston, 1804)

Five [sic] leopards' faces [ 2 and 3? [tinctures not shown; presumably Vert]

Seal on document dated 1779, tentatively ascribed to this Ralph Izard.

Bolton
Izard, Ralph (The Elms, Berkeley Co, S.C., 1742-Charleston, 1804)

Quarterly, 1st and 4th Sable on a bend Or an annulet Sable; 2nd and 3rd Argent six leopards' faces Gules (for Izard)

U.S. Senator. Arms on hatchment, St. James Episcopal Church, Goose Creek, S.C. Same as Ralph Izard, #3, above.

Bolton
1. Izard, Ralph (to St James Parish, S.C., 1682)
2. Izard, Ralph (Berkeley Co, S.C., 1717-61)
3. Izard, Ralph (The Elms, Berkeley Co, S.C., 1742-Charleston, 1804)

Argent six leopards’ faces Vert

2. Impaled by Campbell of Argyll on silver plate belonging to his son-in-law Lord William Campbell, governor of South Carolina. Grandson of Ralph Izard, #1.
3. Seal on document dated 1769; great-grandson of Ralph Izard, #1; 1st cousin once removed of Ralph Izard, #2. U.S. Senator. See variants, next two entries.

1. Crozier 1
2. SC Hist & Gen Mag 2:204 (1901)
3. SC Hist & Gen Mag 2:218