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The Lost Diary of Betsy Ross

The Lost Diary of Betsy Ross

Murray, Gabriel

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798672455778
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2020
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Elizabeth Ross (1752 - 1836), [1] also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first American flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though most historians dismiss the story. Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and two members of a congressional committee-Robert Morris and George Ross-visited Mrs. Ross in 1776. Mrs. Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter. However, there is no archival evidence or other recorded verbal tradition to substantiate this story of the first American flag. It appears that the story first surfaced in the writings of her grandson in the 1870s with no mention or documentation in earlier decades

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