Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-10
SEALS OF TIE STATES.
Labor Generally Recognized In
American Coats -OF-Arus.

I
serts that trade or industry is quite gen
orally recognized in the coats-of-arms OF
the various States of the Union, and pro-
ceeds to illustrate as follows:
Maine has as her supporters husband
man leaning on his scythe and sailor
resting on an anchor.
New Hampshire shows n ship on the
stocks with American banners displayed,
and group of busy shipwrights as yet
unconscious of the benefits of protection.
Vermont places beneath her towering
/ pine tree three erect sneaves and red
cow-a nobler beast than any of the lions,
! griffins. bears and bears that ramp and
roar through the forest of European her
| aldry.
Massachusetts, has decidedly war
like coat arms, with her belted and
moccasined Indian, and her "dexter arm
clothed and grasping a broadsword,"
and Rhode Islands ''ancher" has no ref
erence to maritime interests. Nor do
Connecticut's three vines, supported and
fruited, relate to vinticulture, but, in
stead, to the three original plantations
of Hartford, Windsor, and Weathers-
field.
New York's arms have no recognition
of labor or trade, if we except the two
vessels approaching each other on the
Hudson.
New Jersey, however, displays three
plows in an escutcheon, makes Ceres one
of the supporters, and takes as crest u
horses head 49,
Pennsylvanias supporting horses are
of the rampant cold war-horse breed,
but her shield is charged with peaceful
emblems-a plow; on sea navy proper,
ship under full sail; and a stalk of
maize. This coat-of-arms was taken
chiefly from tho old seal of the City of
PHILADELPHIA, adopted in 1701, which
had in three of its quarters a balance, a
wheat sheaf, and ship sailing upon an
ocean.
Delaware shows in one division of her
azure shield a COW, and in the other a
shoaf of wheat and bundle of leaf to-
bacco. The crest is ship under full
sail. and the supporters are a mariner
and hunter
Maryland in adopting the arms of Lord
Baltimore, was so fortunate as to obtain
as supporters fisherman and plowman.
Virginia, on the reverse of her great
seal, which is nothing if not classical,
shows Ceres, with her cornucopia in one
hand and an ear of wheat in the other.
West Virginia has an encyclopedia
at-of-arms. On the dexter side of her
ivy-twined rock is farmer, clothed in
the traditional hunting shirt of the
mountain region, his right arm resting
on the low-handles, and his left sup
porting a woodlands AK, with, at his
feet, sheaf of wheat and a corn-stalk.
On the sinister is a miner with pick lax
on his shoulder, and barrels and Jumps
of mineral at his feet, while an anvil, on
which rests a sledge-hammer, is partly
seen.
North Carolina has on her shield a
Ceres with the cornucopia in one hand
and in the other three wheat ears.
Georgia has always celebrated trade
and industry with elaborate enthusiasm.
When George II. chartered the colony, in
1882, one face of the seal represented a
provident and laborious colony of silk
worms, sericulture being the special OBJ
ject of the new settlement. When it
became crown colony, in 1851, its
seal showed on one side the genius of
the colony presenting skein of silk to
the king. The convention of 1777
adopted seal wherein was shown Gan
elegant house and other buildings with
sheep and cattle, a river running through
the same with a ship under full saiP'
"a description leaving not a doubt as
to whether the river ran through the
elegant house, or the sheep. The pres
ent seal, adopted in 1898, bears the fol-
lowing elaborate devise: ga view of
the seashore, with ship bearing
the flag of the United States rid
ing at anchor near a. wharf, re-
ceiving on board hogsheads OF
tobacco and bales of cotton, en-
blematic of the exports of the State
at small distance, boat landing from
the interior of the State with hogsheads
ETC., on board, representing her internal
traffic; in the back part, a man blowing,
and at small distance flock of sheer
in different postures, shaded by a flour
ishing tree; the motto, agriculture and
Commerce. Not bad coat-of arms
for the thriving Southern commonwealth.
Florida places side wheeled steam
boat on the river in the middle ground
of her coat-of arms.
Arkansas crowds the shield upon the
bosom of her eagle with a steamboat, a
beehive and pillow, and sheaf of wheat.
Tennessee places in onedivision of hei
coat-of-arms pillow, wheat sheaf, and
a stalk of cotton, with the word, Gag
riculture." The lower half occupied by
loaded barge, with the word, "Com-
merce."
Minnesota shows a farmer. .plowiug,
his gun resting on a stump, while an
Indian recedes before him ''toward his
bright home in the setting SUM-"
California blazons upon her shield a
hardy miner, with his pick, seeking for
gold, and two clipper ships upon the
bay.
Oregon has at the base of her shield
sheaves of wheat, pillow, a rake and a
pick. In the upper half is landscape
with an emigrant wagon, and in the
background a sea bearing a steamship
and a brig flying the American colors.
Kansas displays river and a steam
boat settlers cabin and a man plow-
ing, and train of ox-wagons moving
westward.
Nevada has BETTING coat -of-arms II
shows quartz-mill, a tunnel from
which miner is pushing a car of ore O
pillow, sheaf and a sickle; train OF
railroad cars passing mountain gorge,
and telegraph line.
Ohio, which was without any legalized
seal for more than half century, places
the familiar wheat sheaf on her shield,
and has as supporters farmer with
sheaYes of wheat and imnlements OF