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The third of these sjjecimens of the State Arras is a painting on 

 canvas, which was first hung up in St. Paul's Chapel, New York City, 

 on the south wall, in 1785. It was suspended over the large square 

 and canopied pew occupied by Gov. George Clinton, and opposite to a 

 similar pew on the north occupied by Gen, Washington, one of them 

 having been the pew of the Provincial governor during the British 

 possession of New York, and after the burning of Trinity Church in 

 1776. At some dreary day of modernizing " * the painting was locked 

 up along with the painting of the Arms of the United States. After 

 a few years, they were suspended in the porch ; but both were restored 

 to their original places about the year 1857. The dimensions of this 

 picture of the New York Arms are 67 by 45 inches. 



In 1875, the authorities in Philadelphia, preparing for the centen- 

 nial celebration of 1876, were desirous of securing paintings of the arms 

 of the original thirteen States for suspension in Independence Hall, 

 and they applied to Mr. De Lancey, whose name I have already men- 

 tioned, for a copy of the New York Arms. Mr. De Lancey regarding 

 this painting justly as the most correct and ancient picture of the 

 Arms then known, by his personal exertions obtained an appropria- 

 tion in the supply bill of 1875 of six hundred dollars for the purpose 

 of having copies of it made. It reads: ''For the governor, for the 

 purpose of procuring two paintings on panel-wood or metal, of the 

 arms or heraldic device of the State of New York, one to be placed in 

 the State Library, and the other to be placed at the disposal of the 

 committee on the restoration of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, six 

 hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary." f The 

 object of the deposit in the State Library was to diffuse and perpetu- 

 ate a knowledge of the genuine State Arms. The first two specimens 

 which we have just mentioned having since been discovered, had not 

 come into public notice. We give in a note a description of this 

 painting of the Arms in heraldic language, made and published by the 

 Eev. B. R. Betts, of New York City, in place of the description of the 

 copy which was made for the State Library in 1875, and which differs 

 from the original painting in some respects.}; 



*History of St. Paul's Chapel, N. Y., by Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., 1867— Rev. 

 Mr. Betts, in the N. Y. Geneal. Record, vol. Ill, p. 116, on the Heraldry of St. 

 Paul's Chapel. 



fChap. 634, Laws of 1875. 



IBlazon of the Arms of Xew York from the St. Paul's Chapel painting of 1785, 

 by Rev. B. R. Betts. 



Arms. Per fess, the sky in chief and tbe sea in base, the upper half of the 

 Sun rising out of the latter, all proper. 



Crest. On a wreath vert and argent the northern half of the terrestrial globe, 

 of the second, the meridians sable, a spike projecting from the pale of the last ; 



