Betsy Ross is credited with creating the first Stars & Stripes American flag. Her real contributions to the American Revolution are perhaps much more dramatic than the flagmaking legend.
Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution. The young Philadelphia seamstress stitched the original Old Glory in the summer of 1776 at the request of Gen. George Washington himself, at least according to a beloved but unproven national narrative. 'Today, while many Americans have come to take the legend and romance of it with a grain of salt, Betsy Ross’ popularity is nevertheless undiminished,' Marla R.
The Pennsylvania patriot stands at the center of one of the most spectacular accounts of wartime romance and intrigue in American history. Ross first broke with her Quaker family to elope with a man serving in the local militia. Both he and her second husband were killed during the American Revolution. Ross bravely refused to flee the city during its occupation by the British. She worked throughout the war by making supplies for the colonial army, according to numerous accounts.
The Pennsylvania Quaker proved her rebel spirit as a young woman. She eloped with John Ross, a man outside the Society of Friends, against the wishes of her family. Ross was a fellow apprentice to John Webster, a notable Philadelphia upholsterer. The young lovers escaped to Hugg’s Tavern across the river in Gloucester City to marry in 1773. The husband, a member of the Philadelphia militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion in Jan. 1776. Betsy Ross married again in June 1777.
The officer instead spent three nights at Christmastime in his headquarters entertaining an 'exceedingly beautiful young widow,' according to the testimony of Hessian Captain Johann Ewald. There is suspicion, and ample evidence, that Besty Ross was the temptress who kindled the fires of von Donop while helping re-kindle the cause of American independence.
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