![]() Learns upholstery trade, marries, is widowed Until age twelve she attended a school run by the Religious Society of Friends, whose members were called Quakers. ![]() Young Ross was an attractive girl with thick brown hair and blue eyes who showed strong skills with a needle and thread. Ross was the eighth of seventeen children born to Rebecca and Samuel Griscom, who ran a construction business. This spirited, independent woman lived a remarkable life that was very much tied up with the events of the Revolution.Įlizabeth "Betsy" Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole, who will be called here by her more popular name, Betsy Ross, was born on January 1, 1752, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]() Widowed three times, she had seven daughters, lived through the American Revolution, and for sixty-two years ran her own small business. Betsy Ross is widely believed to have made the first American flag. ![]()
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