BETSY ROSS

SYPNOSIS

• Born in 1752, in philadelphia , pennsylvania
• Apprenticed with an upholsterer
• Irrvocably split from her family to marry outside the Quakers
• Married to john ross
• Started their own upholstery business

EARLY LIFE

• Betsy was the eighth of seventeen children
• Attended Quaker Schools
• Met JoHn ross but he was anglican
• They married in 1772; which was strictly off limits
• They were expelled from the family and started their own business

FUN FACTS ABOUT BETSY ROSS

• Birth Name:Elizabeth griscom
• 3 husbands: john ross, joseph ashburn, & john claypoole
• He betsy ross house: 239 Arch Street Pennsylvania

THE HUSBANDS

• John ross- the first husband of betsy; they started the upholstery business
• Joseph ashburn-was a sailor but he was captured soon after they married
• John claypoole-also a sailor but gave up his carrer to make betsy happy

JOSEPH ASHBURN

• Second husband of betsy
• He was a sailor, and they married a year after John's death
• Unfortunately he died a year after in prison

JOHN CLAYPOOLE

• Third husband of betsy
• Was a friend of Joseph's in prison and was also a sailor

THE LEGEND OF THE FLAG

• Summer 1777 betsy received a visit from george washington
• Washington and the continental army had a basic design
• Betsy made the final design
• Washington wanted stars with six points
• Betsy argued that a five pount star was able to be perfectly cut

LEGEND CONTINUED

• They paid her 15 pounds for sewing ship standards
• However, other receipts have been found for multiple seamstresses

LATER LIFE

• Betsy claypoole had five daughters
• They all made flags, banners and other symbols
• After the war was over for the new nation
• She died at the age of 84 in 1836

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