Betsy Ross Flag Quotes

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

What is interesting about this choice is that Betsy Ross never did anything. Frisch notes that she played “no role whatsoever in the actual creation of any actual first flag.” Ross came to prominence around 1876, when some of her descendants, seeking to create a tourist attraction in Philadelphia, largely invented the myth of the first flag.

She was sitting on a three-legged stool in the clearing where Frank’s house had stood. She was sewing strips of red, white, and blue cloth together. Like Betsy Ross, she was making an American flag. No one was unkind enough to point out to her that the red was really a peach, that the blue was nearly a Kelly green, and that the fifty stars she had cut out were six-pointed stars of David rather than five-pointed American stars.

lunch. Then she would go back to school until 5:00 o'clock. Betsy learned to read, write and do math. She also learned how to sew in school.

Betsy loved to sew, and she was very good at it.

Quaker's believed that things should be simple. They believed their houses

Betsy grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father worked as a carpenter. He helped to build many buildings.

Betsy had seventeen brothers and sisters. Eight of them were older than she was, and eight of them were younger. Betsy was right in the middle.

However, life was very hard in Betsy's day. Eight of her brothers and sisters died before they became adults. When Betsy was a little girl, her family went to the Quaker church. At that time many people didn't think it was important for girls to go to school, but the Quakers did. Betsy went to school six days a week. The only day she didn't go to school was on Sunday. On Sunday she went to church. School lasted all day long. Betsy would start school at 8:00 in the morning. At noon she would have two hours off for

Amid all the chaos, Joseph Ashburn returned safely from his latest voyage. While he and other men worked hard to clean up the mess the British had left behind, Betsy kept sewing. Along with flags, she sewed military supplies

They asked her to make a sample of this new flag to show Congress.

On the first day of 1752, a new baby was born. Her parents were Samuel and Rebecca Griscom. They named their baby Elizabeth, but soon everyone called her Betsy.