Betsy Ross

The Birth of Old Glory, c. 1917

The Birth of Old Glory, c. 1917
by Edward Percy Moran

OTHER IMAGES

Betsy Ross Flag
Betsy Ross House

QUICK FACTS
BORN:
1 January 1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  DIED:
30 January 1836 in Philadelphia
Buried at the Betsy Ross House
  • On 14-Jun-1777 the United States adopted a national flag with 13 stars and stripes.
  • There is no evidence that Betsy Ross designed the flag. It was probably designed by New Jersey lawyer Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
PLACES TO VISIT

Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

 

Categories
Pennsylvania
Stars & Stripes

But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.

— Gordon S. Wood
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)