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Best
English
The name 'Best' originates from England, and France. It is derived from the Middle English, Old Flemish word 'beste' meaning animal, beast (Latin 'bestia'), This was applied as a surname in two ways: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts i.e. a herdsman, and as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal i.e. violent, uncouth, or stupid man. In German it a topographic name for someone who lived by the river 'Beste', a tributary of the Trave, or habitation name from any of the various villages called 'Besten', said by Bahlow to be named from a Middle Low German word for poor soil. Compiled information from Historical and Private archive's has confirmed that the surname 'Best' and or it's variant's, dates as far back as the 13th century were a 'Richard le Beste', from the county of Cambridgeshire, England, is recorded on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. 'Best' was a common name in the county of Yorkshire, England from early in the 15th century. One family can be traced back to 'Edward Best', a yeoman from Old Swinford, whose descendants included nailers and clothiers and, after the Industrial Revolution, a firm of Birmingham lamp-makers founded by 'Robert Best'. The exact period of settlement in North America has not been definitely determined but Information extracted from Public and Civil registry archive's confirm that one of the first settlers was a certain 'James Best', aged 22, a labourer by trade, from Berkshire, England. He emigrated to North America in 1774, sailing from the Port of London aboard the ship named the 'Peggy' on the 15th of January 1774, arriving in Maryland on the 23rd of January of the same, where he served as an indentured servant. Today, 'Best' is the '796th' most common surname in North America. ...
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Sable, a cinquefoil within an orle of cross crosslets or, on a canton of the last a porcullis of the first. Mantling sable and or. Crest-Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-ostrich rising argent, in its beak a cross crosslets fitchée gold, gorged with a plain collar and pendent therefrom a portcullis sable. Motto-"Libertas in legibus."
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