The right of the family to the arms they bear, -- sable, a chevron between 3 garbs argent, -- was finally acknowledged by the heralds in 1558. when a crest was granted to John Field of East Ardsley, near Wakefield, who has been styled " the protocopsmican of England." The three wheat-sheaves on a black shield, was borne by the Fields from about the time when coat-armour was introduced in England, viz.: the 13th century, as is shown by the account of the movements in Madley church, to be found in "Richard Symond's Diary," published by the Camden Society.

The Field family were also among the early settlers of Harrison Purchase. Anthony Field having removed from Flushing, Long Island, to this town, in 1725. The name of the ancient family is of frequent occurence in Doomsday book and is there often interchanged with Lea, a word bearing the same signification.

Benjamin the son of Anthony married for his first wife, Hannah, daughter of John Brown of Hushing; they were married at Flushing, Nov. 30, 1 69 1, and left with other sons,, the aforesaid Anthony, who married Hannah, daughter of William Burling of Flushing. Their descendants are

a He must not be confused with Robert Field of Roston, who married Mary, daughter ol Christopher Stanley, and had a large family of children, bom from 1044 to 16(55.

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very numerous in the county. Anthony's brother Robert, born in Flushing, Sept. 7, 1707, removed to Greenwich, Connecticut, and he married his second wife Abegail, daughter of Joseph Sutton. They had a son Uriah, who married Mary Quimby, at Harrison Purchase, January 18, 1764. This forms the other branch of the Westchester family.