Show 7 a. a fisk r FISHER FAMILY J j Descent t From Alfred The Great Claimed Claimed Claimed-A A Norman Knight Another Pi Progenitor Pilgrim Pilgrim Father Came Over With 4 f. f Penn Penn Founders Founders and Builders Volunteers Towns of Towns Volunteers in All v Wars Wars Wars-A A Colonial Pastor Who Was Also Poet Engraver Farmer and Carpenter Carpenter-A A Belle and Beauty of Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary Times Heraldic Times Heraldic Emblems Signify Ch Charity Chanty Loyalty Loy- Loy J alty and Truth I n it lly l TIfe Fisher being belu that ur one une I I of ur the thc employments o or of man Is found foundas I p as ns S a n. surname In Iii all nations flier anc and Chabot at nt sight do o not seem to to C tobe be names belonging to lo the family ramI tam ram I jI ily yet h c they all have the same sume origin For Fot example In France in some nf ut I the tho provinces pro chabot charn t means fisher or Hence Helice comes come Cabot and HUnn the explorer ma may therefore be bo claimed by the family and P arc are ol old hs h's being a n form Corm of or fre- fre frU Occurrence In hi colonial records In d 1671 1611 I h r of or Mcd- Mcd i Jc JJ JJr r Jell cs CS cs to John aon on of oC my son son John 5 To ToI I Vigila J- J I l la Jl r my m grandchild son lion SOIL of or m my n 8 t W h Th HI HInz d n t daniel und una S1 T Ug child io so frea 51 tree tH nd n y and simplified was as the mode of r spelling In those primitive days One branch of the thc Fisher family faintly claims descent from Alfred the Great UreaL Is for a n large growth of family faintly trees Descent is also claimed b by ono one branch from Eustace de Monte Alto th great greal Norman hunter who was a knight in the train of oC William who gave him the manor of Sri IlL England Ingland where descendants still sUB re re- re side aide The great castle 1 I ii called Mold or Mould castle Maud laud is another corruption of or the tho original name of or It U be mentioned mentioned men men- Monte lonte Alto Maud ma may In recognition cognition of or this tills descent from the Norman Is is a name often ofle-n bestowed bestowed be- be stowed upon both bolh masculine and nIno members of the Fisher famil Maud Fisher was an original character In London whoso whose appearance at nt a certain coffeo coffee house was always awaited with great impatience because he lie could repeat all the speeches of the day made In Iii parliament from Crom memory on the thc all absorbing topic torJe of affairs In iii Inthe the American colony colono This was during wh when both oth the thc revolutionary rc war n houses of or parliament forba forbade e the printing print print- ing lug of or SIJe speeches In tue tho newspapers One Oue dl distinguished member of or the family fam fam- amIly am- am ily By was John Fisher bishop of or Rochester Roch Roch- r ester who wms as chancellor of oC the University Uni Un 1 of Cambridge c. c and procured d the professorship for or Erasmus Bishop Bish Bisla- op Or Fisher lost his head at the tue same and und for Cor the limo time us as Sir Thomas ore sumo same cause One Ono pilgrim father futher was John Fisher who came caine over with William Penn lenn and antI another progenitor of or thu tho American line was Joseph born horn In Saxony Saxon 1731 who settled In III New Jersey e He lIt wits a revolutionary revo revo- revolutionary soldier Middletown Pa was settled by George son of John Fisher pilgrim father ather and Fishers Fisher lIttle lane Germantown Ger- Ger is thus called for the family The Tue first survey and chart charl of or Delaware Dela Dein- ware bay was waK made by Joshua Fisher about The Thc chart la lit now v in possession possession pos pos- session of the Historical Society Society of Pennsylvania To the hospitality or of Captain Daniel Fisher of or Dorchester Mass the th regicide regi resl chic cide Judges of oC Charles I I. I Goite Goff on nIH and Whalley owed shelter and aRd protection for nealI nearly a year car Thc They lived hied hi In 1 i house In a f fOrest near the captain and his ills daughter Lydia wallet walled on them theta The Maine branch of the family was sas founded b by Jonathan faithful minister minis minis- ter ler author poet artist woot wood en engraver en- en graver ro f farmer fanner carpenter and clock clock- maker He lie was vas an r c early riser riser so s o It is ic put down in the records and we are arc not Inclined to dispute the statement He lie was also a a terror to evil doers and a praise to them who diLl did well seli He lie kept a stern eyo on his lion llon an and woe to any one who absented d dh h from church without on nn ex ex- ex CU cuse euse His Hilt sermons numbered bere and his ifs bo book k on on Scripture wa sva Illustrated with pl pictures tures of or every elY anI- anI uni 11 l bird and und Insect mentioned In lii th the These TheNo were nil engraved el IJ by Ills His t painted by him him- elf Is In Mount Bangor Theological of ot which he was waH as one of oC the Fot For Fo ono ona years lie ILC wa v ator t t mue church cl where w t isis Ills salary wn OR thirty vord of or wood wool With u a vacation of or five fi c Sabbaths Sabbaths Sab- Sab baths thrown in Nor r la is this all aU of the stor story lie brought up a family faintly of or oreen seven en children of oC which one was sent to boarding school and one son Rev llev Josiah to lo college collese One of the volunteers of the revolution rc ion tion on was Thomas of or Delaware a mere youth at al the time lie kept up tin the record and was tas In the war wor ot or 1612 with the rank of brigadier general Heltman's Heitmans Officers of or the Revolution gives the names o other oh-other other revolutionary soldiers Lieutenant Isaac of Massachusetts Massa Massa- Colonel and und and Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Colonel John of or Now New York Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Hendrick of oC New Jersey and Captain Samuel of or Penns Pennsylvania hanla One of the belles of or the revolution J if not nolo a heroine was Mary Vining great great- reat granddaughter of John Fish pilgrim of ot Pennsylvania The Thc fame of her herch ch charms was carried to Marie notte nolte who eagerly inquired of Jotter Jeffer Jefferson son soil minister In lit France whether the tile extravagant compliments of oC French officers orn- orn c cers rs in America had been exaggerated Among Amons- her admirers Lafayette Due dOrleans and Louis Philippe The Thc Spanish patriot Miranda once passed through at night and arid left his car card at the postoffice for Cor Miss VIII- VIII ing In never having ln seen her tier cn a twentieth century belle would not scorn the revolutionary re bells belles rich and costly costly costly cost cost- ly attire the thc the pearl colored satin gown lined with cream-colored cream Persian the blossom d satin cloak lined with white while man man and the Iho white satin petticoat pet pet- quilted with The rhe arms reproduced in azure a n dolphin dolphin dol dol- phin or surmounted b a u. crown The Flie heraldic significance o of or a a. dolphin is charity charily au and the tue color coloru of or and und u azure ure Is emblematic loyalty truth The Thc seal used by Joshua Fisher Fishier corr corresponds to this arms arnis There is u similarity between this coat of and that of or the dauphin of or Iran Franco I which would argue descent of or Joshua from Crom lh the Norman knight Tho arms I of tho tue martyred mc bishop was WaK azure a t. adolphin adolphin dolphin between between three ears ear of or wheat II or 01 II and un his mollo notto Vos Fieri I s I I will make you I to become fishers rs of or men |