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Further
Private Registration: The American College of
Heraldry on 6 November 1992 under Number 1073. Arms were Registered by the St.
Andrew Principal Herald Master of the Collegium Heraldicum Russiae under Number
167.
Blazon: En campo de azur (azul), una celosía ecotada,
de oro. Va timbrado el escudo de armas de un casco de acero bruñido, con bordura
y grilletas de oro, claveteado de lo mismo, forrado de gules (rojo), sumado de
un burelete trenzado de azur (azul) y oro del que salen lambrequines de los
mismos esmaltes y sumado a su vez de una cabeza de satiro, sanguino, barbado al
natural, orejado con alas de murciélago, de azur (azul) y sumado de una corona
de hojas de olivo, de sinople (verde). Divisa: En cinta de plata con letras de
sable (negro): "MELIOR NULLO NULLUS MELIOR.
The Arms were designed by the Armiger,
who worked with the late President of The American College of Heraldry, Dr.
David Pittman Johnson, to register same with that entity. The Armiger currently
serves as that organization's Executive Director.
The rendering shown here was originally
depicted (in black and white) by Marco Foppoli, and then digitally colorized and
embellished by the Armiger. David Robert Wooten is a member of: South Carolina Irish
Historical Society; The Scottish-American Military Society [SAMS]; Orders &
Medals Research Society; Sons of Confederate Veterans; Military Order of the
Stars & Bars; Richard III Society; The Society of Heraldic Arts; The White Lion
Society; The Heraldry Societies of the UK, Australia, Scotland, Zimbabwe,
Southern Africa; The Heraldry Society of the USA; The Armiger Society (US);
Fellow of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture &
Commerce (Royal Society of Arts) [FRSA]; Fellow of the Royal Society for
Antiquaries of Ireland [FRSAI]; Fellow of the Society for Antiquaries (Scotland)
[FSA (Scot)]; The Bookplate Society. He is author of "We All Become Forefathers:
Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families" [Higginson
Books, Salem, MA, 1993]; as well as Specialist Editor (Heraldry), "The New
Oxford Dictionary of American English" [Oxford University Press, 2001].
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