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 . pointed by both Housesto prepare a great seal, of which Eichard Smith\\as cliairman, made the following report, whicliwas adopted Oct. 3, 1776 : — Tlie joint committee have considered thesubject, and taken the sentiments of severalintelligent gentlemen thereon, and are of theopinion that Francis Hopkinson, Esq., shouldbe immediately engaged
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 . pointed by both Housesto prepare a great seal, of which Eichard Smith\\as cliairman, made the following report, whicliwas adopted Oct. 3, 1776 : — Tlie joint committee have considered thesubject, and taken the sentiments of severalintelligent gentlemen thereon, and are of theopinion that Francis Hopkinson, Esq., shouldbe immediately engaged to employ proper persons at Philadelphia toprepare a silver seal, which is to be round, of two and a half inches 1 Our illustration is not entirely correct, according to this description, but representsthe arms as frequently found upon State official documents, and oftenest painted upon theState flags used during the civil war. The history of the colonial and provincial seals otNew Netherlands and Ne\V York, from 1625 to the American Revolution, can be foundbeautifully illustrated in the Documentary History of New York, vol. iv. 2 Letters, H. N. Conga, Secretary of State, Sept. 17, 1866 ; John A. Hall, Gover-nors private secretary, June 24, Arms of New Jersey. 618 STATE SKALS. , ILACJS, AND fOLOKS. diameter ami tlnvc-eightlis of ;m iiuli thick, and tliat the arms shallbe,— Arms. Tlinn in an escutcheon [arf/cnf]. Supporters. Liberty and Ceres. Crkst. a head. These words to be engraven iu Luge letters around the arms, Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, mijcclxxvi. In an engraving of the State arms ornamenting the official letter-paper used in the Department of State, the motto Liberty andProsperity has been added iu a scroll at tlie foot of the shield. Pennsylvania. — In 1775, at a meeting of the gentlewomen Ijelong-ing to the village of Ihistol, Penn., they made a collection of moneyto fit out a regiment raising there, and wroughta
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