Show E pluribus unum is a latin phrase and is the national motto of the united states it means one from many and was adopted because the designers of the great seal thought that the sentiment was peculiarly appropriate for a nation composed of many governmental units betsy ross the woman who is supposed to have made the first american flag and her husband john claypool were first buried in the free quaker burying ground on the west side of fifty ninth street south of what is now known as locust street philadelphia in 1857 tho the bodies were removed to a lot in mount moriah cemetery |