North Kingstown

NORTH KINGSTOWN

Official blazon

Argent a chevron between three leopards’ faces gules, on a chief of the last two Indian arrowheads of the first.

Origin/meaning

These are the arms of Richard Smith, the first permanent settler in the town, differenced by a chief charged with two arrowheads for the Indian natives.

The arms were designed and approved in the 1930s by the Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission.

The town currently uses a version in two colours only and with cats instead of leopards:

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