Rhode Island State Seal (1797)
reflected the sentiments of the state's 69,122 population. On the seal, over the picture of an anchor, is inscribed the motto:
<IN GOD WE HOPE.> 1797RI001
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Endnotes:
1797RI001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rhode Island Seal, 1797, motto inscribed on seal. "A New Display of the United States" (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress). Gary DeMar, God and Government (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Press, 1984), Vol. 2, p. 118. Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell, America's Providential History (Charlottesville, Virginia: Providence Foundation, 1989, 1994), p. 87. Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), p. 64.