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Seal of Connecticut (also '''Connecticut State Seal''', in full: '''Great Seal of the State of Connecticut''') is a coat of arms of '' ("He who transplanted, sustains"). HISTORY The first seal of Connecticut was brought from England by Colonel George Fenwick in 1639 . It was the seal of the Saybrook Colony and was turned over to the Connecticut Colony at about the time that it purchased the land and fort at Saybrook Point from Colonel Fenwick in 1644 . The seal was used by the General Court ( General Assembly ) from that time forward, but there is no clear record of who had custody of the seal. On October 9 , 1662 the assembly formally declared that the seal would be kept by the Secretary of the Colony and used as the Seal of the Colony on necessary occasions. It remained the colony's seal until October 1687 , when Sir Edmund Andros took control of the colony's government and the seal disappeared. On , Saybrook and Connecticut (Hartford). After the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the inscription on the colonial seal was no longer appropriate. Therefore, in May of the General Assembly required that all representations of the state seal conform to the description in chapter 54 of the Public Acts of that year. This legislation also prohibited reproduction of the seal except by or under the direction of the Secretary of the State. |
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