Image: RoxburyMA-seal

Description: The seal of the former city of Roxbury, Massachusetts, which is officially described in the original city ordinances as follows- "On the right of the centre of the foreground, a young matron, seated, restering her left arm upon a shield, on which are inscribed the Arms of the State [Commonwealth]; holding in her extended right hand a Mural Crown, as in the act of presenting it;—on the centre and left of the background, a view of the City; in front of which, on the middle ground a train of railroad cars passing towards the metropolis; above, on a scroll, the word ROXBURY; beneath, CONDITA A.D. 1630. In the lower semi-circle of the border, CIVITATIS REGIMINE DONATA, A.D. 1846; and in the upper, the motto, SAXETUM DEXTRIS DEOQUE CONFIDENS."
Title: RoxburyMA-seal
Credit: The Municipal Register of the City Council of the City of Roxbury, for 1862
Author: Simtropolitan, original by B.E. Cotting, M.D.
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