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Arms—Or, a bend engrailed between six roses,
gules.
Motto—Non nobis iantum nati.
These were emblazoned on their shields
and are also found carved in several parts
of the ceiling of the South Isle of the
Church of Great Waltham, England.
Burke gives the significance of the motto
as "we are not born for ourselves alone."
(I) Andrew Warner, the immigrant an-
cestor, was born in England about 1600, a
son of John Warner of Hatfield, Glouces-
ter, England, and came from there to
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1630 or
1633, becoming a proprietor of Cambridge
in that year. He was admitted a
freeman May 14, 1634, and in 1635 was
living in Cambridge on the northerly side
of Eliot Street, and also owned several
other lots in Cambridge. In December,
1636, he sold his property and removed
to Hartford, Connecticut, thence remov-
ing to Hadley, Massachusetts, about 1659,
of which town he was one of the first set-
tlers, and where he died December 18,
1684.
(II) Lieutenant Daniel Warner, son of
Andrew Warner, was born about 1640.
He went in 1659 with his father to Hadley,
and settled in that part of the town
afterwards called Hatfield, where he died
April 30, 1692. He was a farmer and
owner of much land.
(III) John Warner, son of Lieutenant
Daniel Warner, was born in Hatfield in
April, 1677. He married, in 1716, Mehitable
Richardson, and settled in East
Haddam, Connecticut, where he died in
March, 1750. His wife died March 10,
1776, and both are buried about three
miles southeast of Chapman's Ferry.
(IV) Rev. Noadiah Warner, son of
John Warner, was born in East Haddam,
January 12, 1728-29, and died at Newton,
Connecticut, February 2, 1794. In 1759,
he graduated from Yale Divinity School
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and was installed pastor of the church at
Danbury, Connecticut, in 1762, later serv-
ing at Hoosac and Trumbull. In 1781,
he bought a farm at Newton, his church
having been taken over to store rebel pro-
visions in, and retired to his farm. Rev.
Mr. Warner married Elizabeth De Forest,
September 17, 1761, and she died in Sep-
tember, 1812. She was of Huguenot de-
scent from Jesse De Forest, born in 1575,
who removed from France to Holland in
161 5, and was one of the leaders of the
Huguenot Colony that settled in New
York in 1623. Mrs. Warner was also descended
from John Peet, who came from
Duffield, England, to Stratford in 1635.
(V) Harvey De Forest Warner, son of
Rev. Noadiah Warner, was born in Dan-
bury, August I, 1769, and died at Salisbury,
Connecticut, March 30, 1859. He
engaged in farming and also was the
owner of an iron ore mine. He married
(first) December 10, 1796, Elizabeth Clark
born September 4, 1778, daughter of Na-
thaniel Carey and Sarah Clark of Salisbury,
and grand-daughter of Gamaliel and
Elizabeth (Carey) Clark of Milford. Mrs.
Warner died June 2, 1821.
(VI) Donald Judson Warner, son of
Harvey De Forest Warner, was born in
Salisbury, September 15, 1819, and died
there March 31, 1904. In 1842, he was
admitted to the Litchfield County Bar and
engaged in practice in Salisbury. He was
judge of the District Court and of the
Court of Common Pleas for eight years
and several times served as representa-
tive. He was appointed quarter-mastergeneral
by Governor Buckingham but
never qualified to this office. On November
16, 1847, he married Lois Camp Tick-
nor Ball, born in Salisbury, March 27,
1829, died January 13, 1880, daughter of
Robert and Sophia Buckingham (Ticknor)
Ball, a descendant of Rev. Robert
Ball, a clergyman from the north of Ire-