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Mary Young was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 12, 1776, the youngest of the six children of William Young and Rebecca Flower. [1] Her mother, who became widowed when Mary was two years old, had a flag shop on Walnut Street in Philadelphia where she made ensigns, garrison flags and "Continental Colors" for the Continental Army.
Kenneth Pickersgill, South African Army general; Mary Young Pickersgill (born Mary Young, 1776–1857), American flagmaker; Richard Pickersgill (1749–1779), British naval officer for whom the Pickersgill Islands were named; Steve Pickersgill (born 1985), English rugby player; William Pickersgill (1861–1928), English mechanical engineer
Built in 1793, it was the home of Mary Young Pickersgill when she moved to Baltimore in 1806 and the location where she later sewed the "Star Spangled Banner," in 1813, the huge out-sized garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry at Whetstone Point in Baltimore Harbor in the summer of 1814 during the British Royal Navy attack in the Battle of ...
Mary Young Pickersgill (1776–1857), née Young, American flagmaker Mary Young Sewell (c. 1759–1821), née Young, British poet Sean Young (Mary Sean Young, born 1959), American actress
The society was formed in 1802 and incorporated in 1811. Its most noted president was Mary Pickersgill, the seamstress who made the Star Spangled Banner Flag, who served from 1828 to 1851. Under Pickersgill, the society opened an Aged Women's Home in 1851.
Mary Pickersgill (born Mary Young; February 12, 1776 – October 4, 1857) was the maker of the Star-Spangled Banner hoisted over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
"Mary Pickersgill was born on February 12, 1776 in Philadelphia. Following the death of her father two years later, Mary's mother, Rebecca Flower Young, supported the family by making flags in Philadelphia at her shop on Walnut Street and, later, in Baltimore.
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