Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-27

+ IsEEDOHf
& UNITY.


4 zheaf of grain stands at each end Of the
word freedom All is encircled by a mar
rlr border of consecutive arrow heads, the
point of each inserted in the socket of the
next. The engraver may have put foliage
IN file limbs of the pine In all the i'm
TreS-ions have seen [ have been able to
discover nonc.-The workmanship is coarse
anj without any artistical skill. And by
whatever authority introduced, this was the
Seal of the State used by its officers till 1921.
STATEMENT YNoRMAN WILLIAMS OF
CHANGES N 1921 AND Ie40.
Norman Williams Of Woodstock, late de-
ceased between the years 1919 and 1910
was Auditor of Accounts four years, Secre-
tarv of State eight years, and Secretary OF
the Senate four years. He was especially
erudite in all the clerical duties of the sew
eral state Departments.
In reply to enquiries, Mr.. Williams for
wariei a statement which is here given en-
ure except a few paragraphs not important
as history.
To CHARLES REED. Esq.-Dcar Sir. There il
nut ou record any legislative act ordinance o
Council any order or decree of any Of the con
-tuted authorities of this state, establishing th
Coat Of Arms of Vermont the state Seal The,
have 10y custom and use assumed their presen
form ~ accredited embIems Of state authority
and possess the same potency and solemnty tina
would attend them If they had been defined AM
prescribed by statute Law or registered in tn
Heralds College
The impressions Of The state seal on the Com
missions issued 10y GOV. Thomas Chittenden ar
identical with those issued BY his successors dowl
q" thc first year Of the administration of GOV
skinner
IH the year I>3l during the administration of GOV
skinner, Robert Temple Esq, then Secretary of the
Governor ami Council. procured under the order
"t fnc Executive state seal of very creditabe
appearance The device was substantially the
same a- that of the OLD seal. but the figures were
arti-tIraily arranged.
the -heaveS Of wheat, now three IN number, and
the cow We're taken from their aerial perch and
made {" stand up"n The earth, and appeared as fair
results of full harvest and rich pasture The nine
tree was well clothed with foliage and in the back
ground instead of the conical evercrecns were
seen fhe mountains which give name to the State
Around the margin of the Seal were the words
Vermont, Freedom and UNITY
Inc seal was the work Of a professional die
-'rAer and exhibited specimen of good craft for
the-c days.
ing tHe seal, ordered the engraving of a Military
''.nmi'sion for the Vermont Militia The engrav
- was done ia Boston Mr.. Temple was obliged
5etuFu nome before device for the vignette of
- -e & 'oinnISSion was settled upon, and requested
-+i'Ai Then IN the city 70 attend to it. With the
'ii-le 81 the engrayer it was easily accom-
--'e4' ana beneath the wide spread wings of the
1an eagle was gathered the usual panoplv
nil' and ~ this array for the first time the Arms
Viin'at We're placed in shield or escutcheon
~-- '-r'-ounted by a crest
7' vas a stags head, which now, as well
.neon, i IN common use Though the
neon f represented in all the forms that can
-"' u e book Of Heraldry and divers forms
-,e---. --+ II any book,-Yankees being of all men
60 inpatient Of dictation in what thev CON
fl, matters of taste, not only in Heraldry
rro,.o-, conjecture, even TO the unsettling of
Greece a. oid as 'he temples of
f' was made to introduce the crest after