America Climbs the Cornstalk 99 



Elizabethtown which then numbered four families, with a hoe 

 over his shoulder, in token that he, the King's representative, 

 was a farmer among farmers. Symbolically, the Seal of the 

 Twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey bore the design of a 

 bundle of English wheat flanked by ears of American corn. 

 The day of the man with the hoe had come. 



