LOOMIS FAMILY, Rights to Use, Family Crest and Coat of Arms . . . American right to use Coat Armor is the ruling of George Washington himself, who said : " It is far from my design to intimate any opinion that Heraldry, Coat Armor, etc,, might not be rendered conducive to public and private use with us, or that they can have any tendency unfriendly to the purest spirit of republicanism. On the contrary, a different conclusion is deducible from the practice of Congress and the states, all of which have established some kind of Armorial devices to authenticate their official instruments." - - REGISTRY OF AMERICAN FAMILIES ENTITLED TO COAT ARMOR (1904 edition): Loomis Coat of Arms and motto NE CEDE MALIS on the Crest of the Loomis Family, descendants of Joseph Loomis, Windsor Conn., 1639 (Braintree, Essex, England, arrived at Boston on the ship Susan & Ellen in April 1638.) Argent, between two palets gules, three fleurs-de-lis in pale sable, a chief azure. CREST: On a chapeau a pelican vulning herself, proper. MOTTO - Ne cede malis - "Yield not to adversity." The meaning of the pelican shedding her blood to feed her young, while standing on the cap of crimson and ermine: CHARITY, and the CAP OF MAINTENANCE (also Charity). Dating to at least 1513.
