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TARRANT. Essex county.
Arms: A lion rampant reguardant.
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Crest: On an Esquire's helmet, a demi-lion rampant.
Wax seal on the will of Leonard Tarrant at Tappahannock,
Essex county, dated 4 June, 171S.
No such arms are ascribed to Tarrant by the English authori-
ties.
WOSELEY. Norfolk county.
Quarterly 1st and 4th. Sable a chevron between three
./. '.?.% -battle- axes argent; 2nd and 3rd. or a fess between three eagles
displayed sable.
Crest: An eagle displayed sable.
Motto: JIos legem regit.
William ilosely settled in 1649 in Lov-er Norfolk county, where
was built "Rcllestcn," named for the family seat of the Moseleys,
RcUeston Hall, Staffordshire, the immigrant bringing with him a
copy of his arms, and many family portraits. He was a Justice
from 1G49 to 1655. His will, dated 29 June, 1G55, was probated 15
Aug. of the same year. He left a v,ife, Susanna, and sons, Arthur
and William. The inventory of the wife's estate is dated 8 Feb.,
1655-G. Y\Miliam Moseley, 2nd, died about 1671. He was Commis-
Bicner for Lower Norfolk in 1600. He married Mary, daughter of
Capt. John Gookin, by his wife, Sarah Offiey, the widow of Capt.
Adam Thoroughgood, and she, after Capt. Gookin's death, mart
ried Francis, sou of Sir George Yeardley. Mary (Gookin) Moseley,
married, 2nd, in 1672, Lieut.-Col. Anthony Lawson. William
I Moseley, 2nd, had issue: William, John, Elizabeth and Edward.
Edward Moseley, born in 1661, will probated 1736, was a Colonel
and Justice of Princess Anne county, High Sheriff 1707-S, Knight
of the Golden Plorseshce 1710-22, and member of the House of
Burgesses. He married Mrs. Bartholcmew Taylor, daughter of Col.
* John Stringer, and was the father of Hillary Moseley, to whom he
I gave 1 Feb., 1703-4, "My seale, which was my father's, with his
I
coat of arms on it." Hillary died before his father, his will being
and left a
Sson
* probated 5 Aug., 1730. He married Hannah ,
Edward Hack Moseley.
TALMAN. New Kent county.
- Arms: Gules a chevron in chief two daggers points downwards,
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m base a sword, point upward or.
f Crest: An arm embowed in armor holding a battle axe all ppr.
'. Motto:
In fide et in bello fortis.
: Capt. Henry Talman of New Kent county, was the son of Wil-
I liam Talman of Felmingham Hail, Wiltshire, gent., and grandsoa.
I of Christopher Talman and Joanna, his wife. Captain Talman
I married Ann Elizabeth Ballard and died in London in 1775. The
I following entries concerning the family are from the St. Peter's
: register of New Kent: "Martha, dau. of Henry and Ann Talman,
born 16 March, 1733, bapt. 16 June; Rebeckah, dau. of Henry and