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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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U.S. flag from 14 June 1777 to 1 May 1795 using a circular star pattern, known as the "Betsy Ross flag". Version of the "Betsy Ross" design of the first flag of the United States (i.e. with 13 stars in a circle), shown with shorter canton and modern 19:10 flag proportions. Apocryphal legend states it was created by Betsy Ross, though this is ...
Mary Cassatt: 1966, 1988, 1998: American painter best known for her works of mothers and children Lucy Stone: 1968: Nineteenth century abolitionist and women's rights leader Grandma Moses: 1969: American painter who took up painting at the age of 76 Emily Dickinson: 1971: American poet who wrote more than 1,700 poems Willa Cather: 1973 ...