Phoebe Parkhurst, daughter of George Parkhurst of Watertown,
Massachusetts. The family record is carried back to 1100, being
undoubtedly accurate to about the year 1570, when the name Arnold
was first used as a surname; possibly accurate throughout.

The arms of the Family; Gules, a chevron ermine between three
Pheons, or; appear on the tombstone of Oliver Arnold, and of
William Arnold, the original settler. The same arms are on a tablet
in the Parish Church of Churcham in Gloucestershire, England,
placed there in memory of his ancestor John Arnold of Lanthony,
Monmouthshire, afterwards of Hingham, who acquired the manor of
Churcham in 1541.


TRADITIONS.

The most ancient written record of the family which the writer has
consulted was written by John Roseborough, late Clerk of the
Circuit Court, Chester District, South Carolina. He was the son of
Alexander Roseborough and Martha Gaston, whose father, William
Gaston of Caranleigh Clough Water, Ireland, was grandson of Jean
Gaston, the Huguenot ancestor of the family.

The statement is as follows, the words enclosed in parenthesis
being supplied by way of information.

"Jean Gaston emigrated from France to Scotland on account of his
religion, as a persecution then raged against the Protestants. He
had two sons who emigrated from Scotland to Ireland between 1662
and 1668 during a time of persecution in Scotland. There was a John