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She is descended from George Deak, a member of the Committee of Correspondence of Cape Elizabeth (now Portland) Maine, the engineer and commander of the first fortitications at Cape Elizabeth;a lieutenant in the Massachusetts State Militia and the member of the General Court of Massachusettes in 1783. He was one of three officers appointed to equip and command the secret and disastrous Bayaduce Expedition. In the public records of Cape Elizabeth, George Deake`s occupation is listed as that of a "gentleman". He was a man of unusal attainments in literature and languages as attested by his letters and the statements and education of his two maiden daughters. George Deake`s father had come from England during the unpleasantness existing for Catholics during the Protectorate, and after a family migration for revolutionary and political reasons from Hungary, the Deakes` having been princes of Transylvania of Magyar blood and of prominance in State and Church. At Budapest is the tomb of Cardinal Deake, a son of the family.
The Deaks went from the East to Hungary in the 10th century, later stragglers of the Finne-Ugrian invasion, and following in 1001 Stephen I to Transylvania, occupied lands in conquored territory, and used as a heraldic device the crown of an Eastern King whose sons they were.
The Arms are among the oldest known to European heraldy. The copy here presented was given by Farency Deak, the patriot and statesman, to Miss Butterfield`s grandfather. The Arms used by George Deak in the 18th century had this crest. Farency Deak also sent another crest which, he said, he as a descendant of the Cadet branch was entitled to use, and which branch as well as the older he was the sole Hungarian representative. This is interesting as proving that Deaks of American migration are the legitimate inheritors of the title PRINCES OF TRANSYLVANIA. In Hungary the name Deak name is extinct. Deak in the Magyar language means "A man who knows how to write."
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