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Tree of peace, monarch of the forest
[[File:Hopkinsfig1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Commodore Esek Hopkins]], from an engraving in 1776; behind him are warships flying the Pine Tree Flag of George Washington's navy (right), and the flag which would become the First Navy Jack (left)]]
[[File:Hopkinsfig1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Commodore Esek Hopkins]], from an engraving in 1776; behind him are warships flying the Pine Tree Flag of George Washington's navy (right), and the flag which would become the First Navy Jack (left)]]
[[File:Reed letter.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A letter from Joseph Reed]]
[[File:Reed letter.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A letter from Joseph Reed]]
===Pine Tree===
===Liberty Tree===
{{main|Liberty Tree}}
{{main|Liberty Tree}}
The design of the Pine Tree Naval Flag was suggested to General Washington by Colonel Joseph Reed. According to some early portraits published in London around the time of the [[American Revolution]], this flag had the words "[[Liberty Tree]]" across the top and the bottom of the flag contained the phrase "'''An Appeal to God'''".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GMMTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28 Our Flag: Its History and what it Stands for]</ref>
The design of the Pine Tree Naval Flag was suggested to General Washington by Colonel Joseph Reed. According to some early portraits published in London around the time of the [[American Revolution]], this flag had the words "[[Liberty Tree]]" across the top and the bottom of the flag contained the phrase "'''An Appeal to God'''".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GMMTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28 Our Flag: Its History and what it Stands for]</ref>
====Pine Tree====
The White Pine, or Pinus Strobus, had other important points of symbolism. It has long been regarded as the "monarch of the forest".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijwXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA256-IA1 History of the Lake Huron Shore: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers]</ref><ref>[https://www.arborday.org/Trees/treeGuide/printerfriendly.cfm?ID=42 Tree Details: Pine, Eastern White - Pinus strobus]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7xwj5Wq-9-cC&pg=PA123 Two Months on the Tobique, New Brunswick: An Emigrant's Journal, 1851]</ref> For many [[American Indians]], it is considered the "Tree of Peace".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=01D-EoQVa30C&pg=PA41 State Botanical Symbols]</ref><ref>[http://www.dec.ny.gov/pubs/93445.html Great Tree of Peace: the White Pine]</ref>
===Lockean Influence===
===Lockean Influence===
==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
==External Links==