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492. ARMS OF JEFFERSON FAMILY.—

Search the Herald's office for the arms of
my family. I have what I have been told were
the family arms, but on what authority I know
not. It is possible 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.—
To Thomas Adams. Ford ed., i, 388.
(M. 1771)