Topic: Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross' Nephew To Run For Congress

Andrew Decker announced today that his campaign as a Republican Candidate for the United States House of Representatives is officially underway...
Three elementary school kids were shot in Houston Tuesday after a kindergarten student brought a gun to school which accidentally went off when he...
CHICAGO — Three children were hurt after a loaded gun fell out of a six-year-old kindergarten student's pocket and discharged in the cafeteria of a...

Betsy Ross

Ross, Betsy (1752-1836), by tradition the designer and maker of the first Stars and Stripes flag. According to a paper presented to the...

History of the American flag

On the 17th January 1776 a Philadelphian upholsterer named of Betsy Ross was approached by George Washington , who at the time was the leader of the continental army accompanied by Robert Morris a wealth land-owner and George Ross her husband?s nephew ...
Samuel and Rebecca Griscom brought Betsy Ross into the world on January 1st, 1752. Betsy Ross was a flag maker and although there is no solid proof it is said that she made the first American Flag during the revolution. There is ...

Inspirational Flag Day poems

And looked at the flag in the valley below As we protected yours and our right to be free And it was with gusto and vigor we spoke As we rallied underneath that newborn flag But we decided that day to call ...
She flies high above our heads as she yells, ? Never officially recognized, the ?Grand Union Flag? served a design template for Betsy Ross? American flag. On June 4, 1774, the newly formed nation adopted the American flag designed and sewed by Betsy ...

Betsy Ross

The fourth generation of a strict Quaker family, Betsy Ross (born Elizabeth Griscom) was the great granddaughter of Andrew Griscom, who emigrated from England to America in 1680 and settled in what is now Philadelphia the year before William Penn's arrival ...

A New Outlook

3 May 2009So yesterday I realized that the days when I feel the lowest, at myworst... I don't want toend up like Betsy Ross. I don't want to end up like Betsy Ross..... I am still young. Make something new ...