B55914-Vassall

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Name of the family:

Vassall

Blason:

Az. in chief a sun, in base a chalice or, and for honourable augmentation, on a fess of the second the breached bastions of a fortress, above which the words "Monte Video," on a canton ar. the number "38th" within a branch of cypress and another of laurel, the stems united in saltire.

Crest(s):

1st: On a mount vert a breached fortress, thereon hoisted a flag gu. with the inscription "Monte Video" in letters of gold; 2nd: A ship with masts and shrouds ppr.

Motto:

Saepe pro Rege, semper pro Republicâ; and, Every bullet has its billet.

Info about the family:

Milford, co. Southampton; Sir Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall, Knt., of Milford, co. Southampton, and Newfound River, Jamaica, knighted 21 Feb. 1831, was son and heir of Col. Spencer Thomas Vassall {who lost his life at the siege of Monte Video while leading his regiment, the 38th Foot, to the assault}, and grandson of John Vassall, Esq., who settled at Boston, in America, but was deprived of his lands there in the first American war, for his adherence to the parent state

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1050

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