Tuesday, July 04, 2017

“an American eagle on the wing and rising”

This is how Maghera-born Charles Thomson described in heraldic terms his sketch for the proposed Great Seal of the United States of America, in which he had been assisted by William Barton, the son of a Monaghan minister Rev Thomas Barton.

The similarity with the name of the 1636 emigrant ship ‘Eagle Wing’ is tantalising.

President Seal Gold HR

US Great Seal Charles Thomson Preliminary Design

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