Origin and history of the American flag 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 (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 310
as allowed to slumber nearly three years, or until The Seal and Arms of the United States. 687 April, 1782, when Henry Middle ton, Elias Boudinot, and EdwardRutledge were appointed a committee to prepare a great seal. Theyreported, on the 9th of May following, substantially as the committeesof 1779… … Design submitted in 1780. from him the following elaborate and rather impracticable design anddescription of it. The reverse of the great seal was, however, finallytaken from it. Arms. Barry of thirteen pieces, argent and gules, on a canton azure, and many stars disposedin a circle of the first; a…
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