Guiteras, Wardwell· and Allied Families
GUITERAS, WARDWELL· AND ALLIED FAMILIES GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL - Prepared and Privately Printed for GEllTRUDE ELIZABETH GUITERAS BY THE AMElUCAN HISTOlllCAL SOCIETY, lac. NEW YC>IU( 1926 ·Bt> IC)llJfl f> Jt · Jn l)euoteb ~emo~ of llanlon ~uitnas II)tt Satbn, tuottl)p scion of a Distin== gufsbeb .Dlb morlb Samilp, 4tliJabetl, eanrteitn (lllatb\llrll) •uiterai Ott •otber, of like gentle llittb, be== sunbant of manp notallle colonial Smttican lines, anb · l>r. l\amen •uittraf lilbose ricb professional talents were unsparinglp useb in tilt serttiu of bis -ftllotu men, ~bis tJolume is JDellicattb fl1! en~rutJe eri;alJttf) ~tritera, ~ & ~ ~ ~ ~ " j:$' ~~ ~ GUITERAS ARMS Arms-Vert, five greyhounds' heads erased proper, vulned, and distilling drops of blood gules, posed two, one and two. Guiteras HE Guiteras family of Rhode Island ( which lineage was transplanted from Spain by way of Cuba) was long notably distinguished in Spain before the removal of a scion thereof to the Island of Cuba, in which lat~er vicinity it maintained without diminution the honor of its ancestry, and removing thence to the United States, in unbroken continuity has flourished in excellence in that land of its adoption. II DON MATEO GUITERAS, son of Don Juan Guiteras, ancestor of the Rhode Island line, was a native of Canet Le Mar, Spain. He died in Spain. His son, Don Mateo Guiteras, married Dofia Maria De Molins. (See De Molins.) Their son; Ramon, of whom further. III RAM6N GUITERAS was born at Canet Le Mar, Spain, in 1775, and removed in early manhood to Cuba, where he engaged in mercantile pur suits; he acquireg extensive lands., which he devoted largely to the cultiva tion of coffee, and had his residence at Matanzas, on that Island.
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