Betsy Ross 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.

...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

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.

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With implicit instructions to step up the pace of the investigation, Lincoln Ross and Marcus Wade were chasing down leads and rumors as fast as they came. The most important was interviewing the previous Rainman victim, the one who had intimated to Betsy that she knew who her attacker was. Lincoln

Unlike most groups at that time, the Quakers believed that girls as well as boys should be taught a trade. 

Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will—a

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.

Betsy continued to be busy at work. That spring, she was paid fourteen pounds and twelve shillings (about

week later, Washington tried to attack British forces staying outside the city near Germantown. But the colonial army was beaten back. Wounded soldiers from both sides were carried the six miles back to Philadelphia. Betsy was among the many women who helped take care of the men. They rolled bandages and sewed slings and blankets.

Two years later, Betsy’s old friend John Claypoole asked her to be his wife. They were married on May 8, 1783.

While Betsy was returning to her Quaker family, she and John were starting their own. In 1785, their first daughter, Clarissa, was born. She was joined a year later by Susan. The Claypooles continued to work together in their shop, moving to

John and Betsy could afford to buy a horse and carriage by 1786.

By the spring of 1778, the British had left Philadelphia. Part of their army headed out to attack colonies to the south. The rest of the British moved on to New York City, where the fighting was fierce. In Philadelphia, they left behind a huge mess. Many buildings were ruined,

most of the food in the city was gone, and ships in the port had been burned.

Betsy and Joseph’s first child, a daughter named Aucilla, was born on September 15, 1779.

captured, and Joseph was put in a British prison called the Old Mill.

The Old Mill Prison was a terrible place, with too many men packed into too little space. The prisoners actually sold their clothes to buy bread to eat. Disease spread quickly among the men. Joseph was among the hundreds of men who died there. Betsy Ross Ashburn was a widow once again.

But in the summer of that year, a tragic epidemic spread throughout Philadelphia. Yellow fever struck, and thousands of people died from the disease. Betsy’s parents died early in the epidemic. Betsy’s sister Deborah died, too. Her sister Mary died soon after, also possibly from the fever.

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

By 1793, Betsy and John had a fine family, a good home, and steady work.

The yellow fever epidemic was over by early 1794.

Back in Philadelphia, Betsy’s life was changing again. She had met a sailor named Joseph Ashburn. On June 15, 1777, Betsy Ross became Betsy Ashburn when the pair married at the Old Swedes’ Church in Philadelphia.

Food was still scarce in the city. People were burning furniture to keep warm. Sadly, Aucilla got sick and died when she was less than a year old. In 1781, the couple had a second daughter, Eliza.

On January 30, 1836, when she was eighty-four years old, Betsy Ross passed away.

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

Betsy and her neighbors lived and worked in a city

where it became harder and harder to survive

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

the Continental army.

In 1795, she and John had another daughter, Harriet, but the baby died ten months later. In 1799,

In 1800, John Claypoole suffered what was probably a stroke. He could no longer work. He stayed home—and usually in bed—for the rest of his life. Betsy did her best to care for him, but it was not easy. By 1803,

In 1817, John Claypoole died at home. Betsy had worked hard to care for him, even as she grew older herself. For the third time in her life, Betsy was a widow.

Ten years later, at age seventy-five, Betsy finally stopped working. Her daughter Clarissa, and Margaret, Betsy’s niece, took over the shop.

Betsy learned even more about sewing from her great-aunt Sarah Griscom, who owned her own business making women’s corsets.

Betsy worked six days a week. She gathered the materials the workers needed, including fabric, needles, and thread. Sometimes she made deliveries to customers. And she became a better seamstress. She had a busy life in a busy city.

In 1765, Great Britain passed a new tax on its American colonies. This was nothing new, as the colonists were all British subjects and expected to be loyal to King George III. But this new tax made many colonists angry. The Stamp Act said that every piece of paper had to have a special stamp on it. Those stamps cost the colonists

Betsy and John eloped. They crossed the Delaware River to nearby Gloucester, New Jersey. On November 4, 1773, beside a large wood fireplace at an inn called Hugg’s Tavern, they became man and wife.

After her marriage, Betsy was forced to leave the Quakers.

fallen in love with another shopworker named John Ross. There was only one problem: John Ross

break away from British rule would be to fight. In Philadelphia and many other cities, men began gathering weapons and training to fight. John Ross was among

The minutemen soon had to put down their rakes and aprons and pick up their guns. The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts. The minutemen had clashed with British troops on a road just outside

British soldiers were not in Philadelphia yet, but everyone knew they were coming. Betsy and John worried, but they had to keep working. They made chairs and curtains, they sewed tablecloths for a wedding. But after work each day, John trained with the

Early in 1776, John was badly injured. No one is really sure what happened. He may have been hurt by exploding gunpowder that blew up while he was on guard duty. Another version of events says simply that he was hurt while training. It is certain that John died of his injuries, and on January 21, 1776, he was buried

Three men visited Betsy at her Philadelphia shop. One was George Ross, John’s uncle. He knew Betsy and was aware of her skill at sewing. George Ross had been part of the First Continental Congress and a leader in the colonies. The second man was another colonial leader, Robert Morris. He was a very rich man who helped raise

money to pay for the colonists’ fight. The third man, according to the story, was George Washington.

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

During this time, Betsy did not know where her new husband was. His ship had not come back to Philadelphia yet. There was no way for him to get word to her. She did not know if he was even alive.

Later that same year, Joseph set sail on the Lion, which went all the way to Europe, chasing British ships. The Lion was

larger home in 1787. They needed the room; by then, they had two more daughters, Rachel and Jane.

Betsy kept working. Her daughters helped as much as they could, but one by one, they married and started their own families.

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.

Milk and his allies wanted their movement to signify hope. So he approached a friend, the graphic designer Gilbert Baker, who suggested a rainbow instead. “A rainbow fit us,” said the man who became famous as the “gay Betsy Ross.” “It is from nature. It connects us to all the colors—all the colors of sexuality, all the diversity in our community.

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Philadelphia has more to offer than Cheesesteaks and WAWA hoagies, Here’s a list of ten places you’ll enjoy while visiting this beautiful city of Brotherly Love. The Betsy Ross House- 239 Arch Streets Reading Terminal Market-12th and Arch Streets Boat House Row/Kelly Drive-1 Boathouse Row National Constitution Center-525 Arch St Delaware River Waterfront-121 N. Columbus Blvd The Liberty Bell-526 Market St Benjamin Franklin Parkway- Franklin Institute-222 N 20th St Philadelphia Museum of Art-2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy City Hall and its Observation deck-1400 John F Kennedy Blvd