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| - | Pictured to the right is "one of Jefferson's seals,"<ref>[[Short Title List|Randall, ''Life,'']] III:585-6.</ref> according to his grandson-in-law [[Nicholas Phillip Trist]], bearing the motto, "[[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God]]." Jefferson's Memorandum Books contain the notation, "Pd. Thomson for a seal £3-7" on 26 March 1786; this may refer to the purchase of this seal.<ref>[[Short Title List|''MB'']] 615.</ref> The first known intact copy of the seal is on a letter to Richard Gem of 4 April 1790.<ref>[[Short Title List|''PTJ'']] 16:297-298.</ref> | + | Pictured to the right is "one of Jefferson's seals,"<ref>[[Short Title List|Randall, ''Life,'']] III:585-6.</ref> according to his grandson-in-law [[Nicholas Philip Trist]], bearing the motto, "[[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God]]." Jefferson's Memorandum Books contain the notation, "Pd. Thomson for a seal £3-7" on 26 March 1786; this may refer to the purchase of this seal.<ref>[[Short Title List|''MB'']] 615.</ref> The first known intact copy of the seal is on a letter to Richard Gem of 4 April 1790.<ref>[[Short Title List|''PTJ'']] 16:297-298.</ref> |
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Pictured to the right is "one of Jefferson's seals,"[1] according to his grandson-in-law Nicholas Philip Trist, bearing the motto, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Jefferson's Memorandum Books contain the notation, "Pd. Thomson for a seal £3-7" on 26 March 1786; this may refer to the purchase of this seal.[2] The first known intact copy of the seal is on a letter to Richard Gem of 4 April 1790.[3]
