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Betsy Ross




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Hypothisis Betsy Ross is the best flag maker. 

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Fun facts about Betsy Ross!
 * She married 3 people named John Ross, Johnny Claypool and Joseph Ashburn.
 * George Ross, Robert Morris, and General George Washington came to Betsy's house to ask her to make a flag.
 * George Washington Gave Betsy a sketch of the flag.
 * Betsy's birthday is January 1, 1752.
 * Besty Ross entered a sewing contest and won.

This is Betsy showing George Washington the flag.

Betsy Ross was born in Philadelphia on January 1, 1752, her real name was Elizabeth Grimson. Betsy Ross was a Quaker, she had a very large family. In 1773 she married John Ross, they had 7 children and 2 of them died. Betsy also married two other people named Johnny Claypool and Joseph Ashburn. Betsy Ross had to make the American flag for the Revolutionary War. In June 1477 the flag had thirteen stripes for the 13 colonies. This is the flag



TIMELINE OF BETSY ROSS

 * Timeline of Betsy Ross **
 * 1752- January 1st, Elizabeth Griscom came into this world as the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Griscom. She was the eighth child of 17 in a conservative Quaker family. During her schooling years, she attended a Quaker institution. **
 * 1773 - At the age of 21, Betsy eloped with John Ross. They had to elope because Quakers did not believe that people should marry outside of their religion. However, Betsy fell deeply in love with her fellow apprentice at an upholstery shop. Ross was an Episcopalian. After crossing the Delaware River and getting married in New Jersey, Betsy was cut off from communication with her family. **
 * 1775 - John and Betsy returned to Philadelphia and started their own upholstery business. **
 * 1776 - Their business was suffering during the Americn Revalution. Since money was tight and the other effects of war were in play, they could not find the fabrics that they needed in order to keep up their shop at times. **
 * 1776 - John was injured after joining the Pennsylvania militia. Shortly after, he passed away due to his injuries. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1776 - When spring began to turn into summer, Betsy met with George Washington, George Ross, and Robert Morris. This meeting was the one that led to the sewing of the first flag of the United States of America by Betsy Ross. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1777 - Betsy remarried to a sea captain named to Joseph Ashburn. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1778- Captain Ashburn was on a trip to the West Indies, when he was captured by the British. He was sent to Old Mill Prison **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1778 - In March Captain Ashburn passed away. Within such a short period of time, Ross became a widow for the second time in her life. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1779 - In May Betsy married John Claypoole, a sailor who was also put in the Old Mill Prison. This ceremony was the first of her marriages to be performed at Christ Church, which was her hometown church from the days of her childhood. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1817 - This marriage lasted for awhile. Betsy and John joined the Quaker church. The couple had five daughters together and Betsy had two daughters from the past, although one of them passed away when she was very young. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1817 - John Claypoole passed away. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1827 - At the age of 75, Betsy stopped working. Throughout the years, she had brought many of her family members into the business with her including her daughter. Betsy moved to Abington, Pennsylvania to live with her daughter Sarah for the rest of her days. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1836 - On January 30, she passed away at the age of 84 years old. She was first buried at the Free Quaker burial ground. 1856 - Her body was exhumed and moved to Mount Moriah Cemetery. **
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1876 - Her remains were once again moved to the Betsy Ross House. **

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Betsy Ross made a five pointed star with one snip of her sissiors. You can learn how to make a five pointed star!

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**<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 37px;">Betsy Ross Facts **

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Betsy Ross was born on January 1, 1752 and died on January 30, 1836. She has been credited with being the maker of the first American flag. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Betsy Ross was born with the name Elizabeth Griscom to her parents, Rebecca James and Samuel Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the eighth out of seventeen children in the family. In her home, there was strict discipline and plain clothing due to their association with the Society of Friends. Her great aunt, Sarah Griscom, taught Betsy to sew. Her great gradfather, Andrew Griscom, was a carpenter of Quaker faith who immigrated from England to New Jersey in 1680. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">After Betsy finished her schooling, she was apprenticed by her father to an upholsterer with the name of William Webster. While there, she fell in love with John Ross, a fellow apprentice and the son of assistant rector Aeneas Ross at the Episcopal Christ Church. When Betsy was twenty-one years old, the couple eloped, causing her to be expelled from the Quakers and separated from her family. The couple opened their own upholstery business and joined the Christ Church. Together, they did not have any children. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Once the American Revolutionary War came about, the Rosses were struggling financially. The fabric that they needed was no longer always available. Business was not good. John decided to join the militia of Pennsylvania, but he was killed in January of 1776 after the ammunition in a storehouse he was responsible for guarding exploded. Following John's death, Betsy became a part of the "Fighting Quakers" who supported the war effort, which was unlike the traditional group of Quakers. Betsy married Joseph Ashburn, sea captain, in June of 1777. They had two children together. While the British were around in 1777, they forcibly occupied the Ross home. After the Battle of Germantown, she took care of British and American soldiers. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Today Betsy Ross is remembered as the flag maker of the United States flag. Ross met with George Washington, George Ross, and Robert Morris at her upholstery shop, which resulted in her sewing the very first stars and stripes flag for the United States. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In May of 1783, Betsy Ross married John Claypoole, who was an old friend who informed her of her second husband's death in a British prison where Ashburn and Claypoole had been imprisoned. Together, the couple had five daughters. Following twenty years of poor health, he died in 1817. Following his death, Betsy Ross continued to work in her upholstery business, and this included making flags for the U.S. reportedly until 1827. Once she retired, she lived with her married daughter, Susannah Satterthwaite, who kept operating the upholstery business. Betsy Ross died in Philadelphia when she was 84 years old on January 30, 1836. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Betsy Ross's body was originally buried at the Free Quaker burial ground in Philadelphia on South 5th Street. Twenty years after her burial, her remains were exhumed from her grave and she was reburied in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia in the Cobbs Creek Park section. When the United States was preparing for the United States Bicentennial, the city ordered that the remains of Betsy Ross be transferred to the Betsy Ross House in 1975, but the workers found no remains underneath her tombstone. As a result, the bones found in other areas of the family plot were said to be hers and were re-interred in the grave site of the Betsy Ross House that has visitors. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On January 1, 1952, there was a stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in order to honor the 200th anniversary of her birth. The illustration on the stamp shows Betsy Ross presenting the U.S. flag to George Washington, George Ross, and Robert Morris. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">There has been research conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The research shows that the story of Betsy Ross making the very first American flag for George Washington was first believed to be true around the time of 1876 and the Centennial celebrations. The grandson of Ross, William J. Canby, presented to the Historical Society his claim that his grandmother had been the one to make the first flag with her own hands. He said that he had learned of this from his aunt Clarissa Wilson in 1857, just twenty years following Betsy Ross's death. The making of the flag itself was said to have occurred in late May or early June of 1776, approximately a year prior to Congress passing the Flag Act. The Smithsonian experts wrote a book in 2008, called //The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon//, stating that the story told by Camby appealed to the American public, who was very eager to hear about the heroes and the heroines from the Revolutionary War. In the process, Betsy Ross has been promoted as a patriotic female role model for girls as well as an example of female contribution to the war effort and to American history in general.

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