Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-27
g. W. BENEDICT, Com.
NORMAN WILLIAMS Hlstol
CHARLES REED ooci'

Montpelier, November II, 1852
The result was Chapter l3l of the Gen :
eral Statutes, entitled - Of the State Arms,
Seal and Flag This Chapter was drafted
by the writer, Prof. George W. Benedict of
Burlington. furnishing the description of the
Coat Of Arms.
The painted representation Of our Coat OF
Arms hanging in the Secretary of State s
Office, was painted by Mr.. Heyde at Burling-
ton under the eve Of Prof. Benedict, to
whom the Secretary of State, at the request
Of the officers of the Historical Society,
committed the execution of that part of the
law imposed on him by Section 4
The object aimed at in the present Coat
Of Arms was to preserve the devices IN use,
and establish and fix them in a permanent
and artistic form in which they should re-
main EvERMoRE.-Thc outlines of the noun
tains are those of Camels Hump and Mans
/ field as seen from Lake Champlain and as
actually traced by Mr.. Heyde. This view
was adopted as the point from which the
Green Mountains were first seen by Cham
plain and his . Pale Faces, and from which
/
thoroughfare of the lake Will carry away
their impressions Of Vermont Mountains
than from any other.
Every object was accurately drawn from
the best specimen that could be found And
upon a suggestion that the bucks head was
quite unlike a specimen Of the American
Deer at Montpelier, Prof. Benedict writes
from Burlington, April q, 1868, as follows ::
- The bucks head on the State Coat of Arms
painted by Mr.. Heyde, copy of the figure of
an American Deer given in DR.. DeKay's
volume of New York state Natural History
and no doubt a good representation.
OF all the figures of animals in that work Qekay
SAYS his preface, page IL They 1cere all ere
" ettted by Ir. j. ". HdH and tcere taken from the
" animal HseLf, aiire from specimens cdreftlly
saoH"feG by PERSONS ,ro ,cifh their
be habits turing life The outlines in all teere
taben nttb the t,iciFcs.'
- When making his outline, first Mr. Heyde was
about to draw from a stuffed head and neck of a
buck which Ornamented the entrance of the dining
g hall Of the American House in this place. But on
' looking at it, | that it was stuffed in such a
manner as to convey entirely false idea of the
true shape Of the neck and head. SO took De
Kay's figure to Mr.. Heyde to copy from
/ My recollection Is, that on carefully comparing
his ngUrc with that Of DIR. DE hay, was IuiIy sat
81 isfied with the merits OF his drawing.
d" here BGy have been some trifing variation,
" made necessary by the position in which the
" crest, to comport with the practice of placing
heads of animals for heraldic crests, had to be
placed but there was none to njure the value OF
d" the work as a fair and truthful representation
The reader can find description of this
deer and its horns on page ll3, and the
figure copied from on plate 2S, of Dr. De
Kay.-So all cavilers as to the correctness OF
the crest must have their quarrel with that
most authentic of authorities, the Natural
History of the State of New York.
VERMONT STATE SEAL N WILSON'S
AMERICAN HISTORY.
Marcus Wilson, in his 90 American HIS
tory published by Iverson and Phinney'
New York, 1858, furnished an en6ravlng
and description of each State Seal. And OF
ours we read on page 90:
vermont.-We informed by the Secretary
of State of Vermont that there are records In
"the secretary's Office giving description OF the
State Seal or showing the time of establishing IL,
Ira Allen however, the historian of Vermont, ana
her first Secretary, stated that the Seal was eslao
HHshed.by the Governor and council in lfIo-tna'
" the tree on the seal was evergreen with -FOUR
thirteen original states. and the smal'sranch a.