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...coming over. — One farther favor and I am done ; to search the Herald's office for the arms of iny family. I have what I have been told were the family...I have desired you to purchase for me I would beg yon to hasten, particularly the Clavichord, which I have directed to be purchased in Hamburgh, because...

...agent to try and f1nd his family arms, and, if unsuccessful, to purchase some heraldic device for him; "having Sterne's word for it that a coat of arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat." A peep of the democratic day is in this incident. The American must not be outdone by any bloated aristocrat...

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...them; but not in sufficient degree to endanger society. (To John Adams, 1813. C. VI., 224.) ARMS. — One farther favor and I am done; to search the Herald's...arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat. (From a letter written to Thomas Adams, a merchant of London, 1770. FI, 389.) ARMY. — No freeman...

...fifty years hence. — To JOHN PAGE. FORD ED., ii, 70. (Pa., 1776.) 492. ARMS OF JEFFERSON FAMILY. — Search the Herald's office for the arms of my family....arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat. — To THOMAS ADAMS. FORD ED., i, 388. (M., 1771.) 493. ARMSTRONG (John), Hostility against. — An...

...search the herald's office for the arms of my family. I have what I am told are the family arms, but I on what authority I know not. It is possible there...may be purchased as cheap as any other coat." The result of that inquiry is not alluded to in his writings or records, but appears frequently at Monticello,...

...entitled, or, like Mr. J n, commissioned an agent in London to purchase some heraldic device, having Mr. Sterne's word for it that "a coat of arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat." I have had some reason to believe that our friends did not regard my mother's family, being in the...

...directs Mr. Adams "to search the Herald's office 'for the arms of my family.' I have what I am told are the family arms, but on what authority I know not....arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat." "What Mr. Adams found we cannot say, but thereafter upon the silver, china, paper of the Sage of Monticello,...

...I have what I have been old were the family Arms, but on what authority I know not, it is probable there may be none, if so I would with your assistance...become a purchaser, having Sterne's word for it that a coat-of-arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat." 135 III— FESTIVITIES AMONG other things...