[819.] Stearns. Stearns.
Plain armorial. Motto, Firm. Of Massachusetts.
[820.] Stearns. Benjamin Stearns.
Name-label. Above the name a cabalistic arrangement of the letters W. V. and M. with four hands in pairs pointing at them. Motto, Nihil me tangere, altered to Noli me tangere. Dated 1833.
[821.] Stephens. William Stephens.
Armorial. Jacobean. Mantling. Motto, In corrupta fides nudaque veritas. This resembles the plate of William Cowper, Clerk of Parliament. Not signed, but possibly by Maverick, although not in his usual style.
[822.] Stevens. Henry Stevens, Barnet. Vt. (Walton’s Press, Montpelier. Vt.).
The arms of the State with its motto, Freedom and Unity. Under this, in a frame, is the following poem:—
In Paradise, the tree,
Of knowledge was the pride:
By God’s supreme decree,
The man who eat—then died.
But Heaven in mercy since
Does him who tastes forgive:
To know, is no offence:
Now, he who eats—shall live.