what did betsy ross have to do with the revolutionary war?

Question

she was supposebly the inventor of the american flag

Answer 1

Betsy Ross is said to have made the first American flag in 1776 based on a drawing by George Washington.

However, some historians dispute the story as a fable created by her family after her death.

For details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross.

Answer 2

She was the first person to make the American flag.

Answer 3

She was the sewer of the American Flag and advised Washington against the six-pointed star for a five-pointed star

Answer 4

She supposedly produced (sewed) the first flag at the request of George Washington, and she also supposedly did some tailoring for him, I don't believe there is any concrete evidence of this. There is nothing written down, it was a story her grandson told, she was to have told him on her death bed. Good luck

Answer 5

Yes, she made the first American flag. She created a symbol that all americans, well colonists at that time we should call them, could connect with and unite under.

Answer 6

Her first husband John Ross, a member of the militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion. Betsy ran their upholstering business alone after his death.
According to what her family members said (after her death) that she had told them, in June 1776, she received a visit from George Washington, George Ross and Robert Morris of the Continental Congress. She had met Washington through their mutual worship at Christ Church (and she had sewn buttons for him previously), and George Ross was John's uncle. Although there is no record of any such committee, the three men supposedly announced they were a "Committee of Three" (perhaps self-appointed, under the circumstances) and showed her a suggested design that was drawn up by Washington in pencil. The design had six-pointed stars, and Betsy, the family story goes, suggested five-pointed stars instead because she could make a five-pointed star in one snip. The flag was sewn by Betsy in her parlor. The flag was flown when the Declaration of Independence was read aloud at Independence Hall on July 8, 1776.

No contemporary record of this meeting was made. No "Betsy Ross flag" of thirteen stars in a circle exists from 1776 (however, there is an October 1777 account by of a flag with "stars disposed in a circle" at the surrender of Saratoga[1]). Historians have found at least 17 other flag makers in Philadelphia at the time. The Betsy Ross story is based solely on oral affidavits from her daughter and other relatives, which were made public in 1870 by her grandson, William J. Canby, in a paper read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. No primary sources of the time—letters, journals, diaries, newspaper articles, official records, or business records—have surfaced since 1870 confirming or disproving the story. The only further supporting documentation that Betsy Ross was involved in federal flag design is the Pennsylvania State Navy Board commissioning her for work in making "ships colors & c." in May 1777.

Some historians believe it was Francis Hopkinson and not Betsy Ross who designed the official "first flag" of the United States (13 red and white stripes with 13 stars on a field of blue). Hopkinson was a member of the Continental Congress, a heraldist, a designer of the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, one of the designers of the Great Seal of the United States (which contains a blue shield with 13 diagonal red and white stripes and 13 five-pointed stars) and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.


After John's death, Betsy joined the "Fighting Quakers" which, unlike traditional Quakers, supported the war effort. In June 1777, she married sea captain Joseph Ashburn at Old Swedes Church in Philadelphia.

Collateral evidence to the claim that Betsy indeed provided significant design input in the flag is provided by reference to Ashburn's family coat of arms. The Ashburn crest provides a stars and bars motif not unlike Old Glory itself.[2]

British soldiers forcibly occupied their house when they controlled the city in 1777.

The couple had two daughters together. Captain Ashburn was captured by the British on a trip to procure supplies and was sent to Old Mill Prison, where he died in March 1782, several months after the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown.

In May 1783, she married John Claypoole, an old friend who had told her of Ashburn's death. The couple had five daughters together. He died in 1817 after 20 years of ill health. She continued working in her upholstery business until 1827. After her retirement, she moved in with her married daughter, Susannah Satterthwaite, who continued to operate the business.

Answer 7

she was the first person who sewed the flag for the country.

Answer 8

yes betsy was seamstress-and a good one

Answer 9

GOSSIPS WERE FOUNTS OF INFORMATION HISTORICALLY
FLAGS PROVIDED A
RALLYING POINT DURING BATTLE; THAT
SAVED LIVES
INSPIRED PATRIOTS

WAS SHE BLAMED FOR STARTING IT?

Answer 10

pay attention in history and do your own homework!