History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . 1778, Congressappointed a committee, consisting of John Witherspoon, GouverneurMorris, and Eichard Henry Lee, to prepare a seal for the treasury andfor the navy; and on the 4th of May, 1779, they reported as a device gated this subject, and, I understand, has prepared an article in relation thereto. Formore definite and extended information
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . 1778, Congressappointed a committee, consisting of John Witherspoon, GouverneurMorris, and Eichard Henry Lee, to prepare a seal for the treasury andfor the navy; and on the 4th of May, 1779, they reported as a device gated this subject, and, I understand, has prepared an article in relation thereto. Formore definite and extended information, it would he well, perhaps, for you to consulthim. I am, very truly yours, A. Loudon , Jan. 15, 1879. 1 From an impression on a letter written by Thomas Itliffliu, to the President of theContinental Congress. (198 tiil: seal and arms of tiik rMiKD siates. an escutcheon, on which was a clievrnn with a Idiu field above it, andthirteen perpendicnhir alternate red and white bars in the chevron.]ielow the chevron was a reclining anchor ])nij)er, on a white or silverfield ; the crest was a ship under sail; the motto, Sifstrntans ct Sus-tcntatum; the legend, U. S. A. SiGiL. Naval., with thirteen starsto complete the circle of the
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