 | George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 lehte
...one, accompanied by General Washington, in June, 1776,3 called upon Mrs. Ross, who was an upholsterer, and engaged her to make the flag from a rough drawing which, according to her suggestions, was redrawn by General Washington in pencil " then and there in her back... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 928 lehte
...nephew of Colonel George Ross, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. an upholsterer, and engaged her to make the flag from a rough drawing,...her suggestion, was redrawn by General Washington in pencil in her back parlor. The flag thus designed was adopted by Congress, and was, according to... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 890 lehte
...American flagg. " Sunday, 15th Feb'y. Brig Independence saluted the french Flagg, which was returned." The first military incident connected with the new flag occurred on the 2d of August, 1777, when Lieutenants Bird and Brant invested Fort Stanwix,1 then commanded by Colonel... | |
 | 1893 - 436 lehte
...street, Philadelphia, was the maker of the first flag combining the stars and stripes. Her descendants assert that a committee of congress, accompanied by...redrawn by General Washington, with pencil, In her back Earlor, and the flag thus designed was adopted y congress. Although the resolution establishing the... | |
 | James H. Ross - 1894 - 228 lehte
...Congressional committee that in June, 1776, accompanied by General George Washington, called upon her, and engaged her to make the flag from a rough drawing, which, according to her suggestions, was redrawn by Washington with pen and pencil, then and there, in her... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1895 - 686 lehte
...by General Washington, in June, 1776, called upon Mrs. Ross, who was an upholstress of Philadelphia, and engaged her to make the flag from a rough drawing, which, at her suggestion, was redrawn in pencil, by Washington, in her back parlor. The flag thus designed was adopted by congress, and was,... | |
 | Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - 1902 - 738 lehte
...Street, Philadelphia, was the maker of the first flag combining the stars and stripes. Her descendants assert that a committee of Congress, accompanied by...General Washington with pencil in her back parlor, and the flag thus designed was adopted by Congress." There is not another word on the subject of the Betsy... | |
 | 1904 - 816 lehte
...as rare as they are offensive in the judgment of patriotic and thinking citizens of this republic. The first military incident connected with the new flag occurred on the 2nd of August, 1777, when Lieutenants Bird and Brant invested Fort Stanwix, then commanded by Colonel... | |
 | T. Pape - 1913 - 56 lehte
...resided in Arch Street, Philadelphia, the maker of the first flag combining the stars and stripes, claim that a Committee of Congress, accompanied by General...her suggestion, was re-drawn by General Washington in her back parlour, and the flag thus designed was adopted by Congress." THE WASHINGTON COAT OF ARMS... | |
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Her descendants assert that a committee of Congress accompanied by General Washington, who was in Philadelphia in June, 1776, called upon Mrs. Ross and engaged her to make the flag from a rough drawing, which, at her suggestion, was redrawn by General... 
