biography
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Ross, Betsy
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née Elizabeth Griscom
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1752–1836)
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| biography:
| Seamstress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Although she was a well-known seamstress and the official flagmaker for the Pennsylvania Navy, there is no real evidence that she designed or made the first flag of the United States (in 1776). The story was first told in 1870 by a grandson. |
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