The Greenwood Family Crest
A pedigree of this ancient Norwich family is preserved at the College of Heralds, London. It commences with Miles Greenwood, whose arms are given in the document, and correspond with the devices we reproduce. This Miles Greenwood had a son, Nathaniel, born in 1631, who came over to Boston, New England, in 1654. The latter's grandson, Samuel Greenwood, had built in 1722 a family tomb, on Copp's Hill, and its slab bears the family arms, with some slight mistakes due to the workman or sculptor. These arms are clearly attributed, by Edmondson, to ""the Greenwoods of Yorkshire and of Norwich, 1594."" That date marks, more probably, a confirmation that a grant, as this very ancient family is traced back to 1154, by Thoresby, in his Ducatus Leodiensis.
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- Family
- Greenwood
- Motto
Ut prosim.
May I be useful.- Blazon
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A Mullet, Between Two Duck's Wings, Elevated: All Sable.
- Source
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America Hereldica