Betsy Ross, best known for making the first American flag, apprenticed with an upholsterer before irrevocably splitting with her family to marry outside the Quaker religion. She and her first husband, John Ross, started their own upholstery business. Despite a lack of credible evidence to support...
Betsy Ross: Dirigido por George Cowl, Travers Vale. Com Alice Brady, John Bowers, Lillian Cook, Victor Kennard. Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
Born on Jan. 1, 1752 in Philadelphia,Elizabeth “Betsy” Rossposthumously gained fame for making the first American flag. The popularized narrative first became public in 1870 — about 94 years after she allegedly sewed it — when her grandson William Canby told the story to the Historical Soc...
On the self-guided tour ofThe Betsy Ross House, guests explore Ross’ upholstery shop, the parlor where she is said to have received the Flag Committee, the bedroom where family legend states that she sewed the first flag and the basement where she made musket cartridges for the Continental ...
I grew up just north of New York City, went to college in Rhode Island, and have been a transplant to the Midwest since the early 90’s. When I’m not doing genealogy, I’m a flutist and teacher. I felt a tug towards family history when I was a child because of the family belie...
but strong evidence that Ross did in fact make flags for the government includes a receipt for her making "ship's colours" for the Pennsylvania Navy in May 1777, as well as one large garrison flag for the troops on "Mud Island Battery," better known in history as Fort Mud or Fort Miff...
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