Some notices of the surname of Shand, particularly of the County of Aberdeen

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were closely allied by marriage. The arms of the former
family were, Gules, a dexter hand couped, fessivays, and there-
upon a hooded hawk perched or, on a chief argent, three mullets
of the first. The Reids gave two coats, quarterly, first and
third, Argent, a chevron azure, betwixt two mullets and a
cross crosslet fitche gules : second and fourth, Stewart. After
what has been already said on the subject, it may be con-
sidered a mere accidental circumstance that E-obert de
Shandos, temp. Henry III., carried stars. — Boutell's Heraldry,
1863.