Seal of Newton, Massachusetts. Extant in 1874. When Newton became a city in 1874, “it retained, with appropriate additions to the inscriptions, the seal which had first appeared on the Annual Report of the town’s officers in 1865.” (Mirror of Newton, 1907, pages 28-29). Indeed, March 1865 minutes indicate that the Selectmen “voted that the design presented be adopted for Town Seal.”
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Selectmen of Newton