(April 28, 1788), was approved the year Maryland was admitted to the Union. The State Seal pictured a farmer and a fisherman, reflecting the occupations of the early settlers; a shield with the coat of arms of the Calverts and the Crosslands (Alicia Crossland was the mother of the first Baron of Baltimore, George Calvert); and beneath the shield is the Latin motto:
Scuto Bonae Voluntatis Tuae Coronasti Nos (Thou hast crowned us with the shield of Thy good will—Psalms 5:12).1941