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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.
Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom; [1] January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, [1] was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 [2] with making the second official U.S. flag, [3] accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag.
The museum features a 30 by 42-foot (13 m) tall window which was created to be the same color, size, and design of the original "Star-Spangled Banner" flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes made by Pickersgill in the adjacent Flag House and completed on the floor of a nearby brewery by members of her family and servants/slaves. [4]
Betsy Ross 1777, a ca. 1920 depiction by artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris of Ross showing Gen. George Washington (seated, left), Robert Morris and George Ross how she cut the revised five-pointed stars for the flag. Ross's grandson, William Canby, publicly presented a version of her story to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870. [22]
Betsy Ross: 1952: American upholsterer credited with creating the first official flag of the United States: Sacagawea: 1954, 1994: Shoshone guide who assisted the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 Amelia Earhart: 1963: American pilot, first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean: Eleanor Roosevelt: 1963, 1984, 1998
SS Mary M. Dodge: Mary M. Dodge: 2138 standard 4 August 1943: 25 August 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1969 SS Mary Patten: Mary Patten: 1725 standard 21 July 1943: 11 August 1943: To U.S. Navy as Azimech (AK-124), scrapped 1972 SS Mary Pickersgill: Mary Pickersgill: 2654 standard 27 May 1944: 29 June 1944: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1971 ...
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The Betsy Ross House is a landmark in Philadelphia. It is purported to be the site where the upholsterer and flag-maker Betsy Ross (1752–1836) lived when she is said to have sewed the first American flag.