>>212940616America's first seal featured the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and Holland as these were the nations recognised as having peopled the Thirteen Colonies (the six that make up New England were said by John Adams to be superior on account of the people being 'of purer English stock').
The Irish larp began a century after the Revolution, likewise the recognition of Germans as a distinct entity as they settled the new lands of the Midwest following the 1862 Homestead Act