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His recommendation of Farragut resulted in the offer of a new job. His son James, who would grow up to become Admiral David Farragut, was born in 1801. In 1805, Farragut moved to New Orleans, and his family followed, in a 1,700-mile flatboat adventure aided by hired rivermen, the young James Farragut's first voyage.
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
Arms of George Washington, 1st president, 1789–1797 Shield: Argent, two bars and in chief three mullets gules. Crest: Out of a crest-coronet a raven rising wings elevated and addorsed proper. Motto: Exitus Acta Probat (The outcome is the test of the act). [3] See also: Coat of arms of the Washington family. Arms of John Adams, 2nd president ...
Heraldry developed in the High Middle Ages based on earlier traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient art (specifically the style of Scythian art as it developed from c. the 7th century BC).
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
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David Farragut (1801–1870), American admiral; George Farragut (1755–1817), American Revolutionary War naval officer, father of David Farragut; Ken Farragut (1928-2014), American National Football League player; Faraj ben Salim, also known as Farragut of Girgenti, 13th century Sicilian-Jewish physician and translator
English: Coat of Arms of Admiral David Farragut Shield: Gules a horseshoe heels upward enclosing a horseshoe nail palewise Or Crest: On the sea an antique ship in full sail to the sinister