Betsy Ross, We want You to Make a Flag for Us

Betsy Ross, We want You to Make a Flag for Us ... Betsy Ross 1752 to 1836, McCormick Distilling Co. Weston, Missouri, American Porcelain Company ... Early in June of 1776, Betsy Ross, A young Widower Keeper of a small upholstery shop in Philadelphia, received three distinguished visitors. Towering authoritatively, over six fee tall, was George Washington. Almost in his shadow came Robert Morris, Know for his liberal financial aid to the cause of independence; and ushering them in them in, the florid Colonel George Ross, member of the Continental Congress, eager signer of the Declaration of Independence, and uncle of Betsy's late husband John. It was his influence that had brought this secretly empowered committed to Betsy Ross's parlor.
With greetings and introductions completed, the three men came to the point of their visit. "We want you to make a flag for us." Betsy told the story to her grandchildren many years later how George Washington produced a drawing of what he and his committee thought the flag should be. She related how she had studied it and made suggestions: the stars should have five pints, not six; and all the stars should be equal in size and position .. in a circle ... so none of the newly united states should be jealous of, or claim superiority over the rest. Betsy's thought were accepted enthusiastically, and George Washington, pencil in hand, sketched the new flag as she described it. Thus the stars and stripes ere born! s Bicentennial collectibles, Bicentennial souvenir, the United States Flag,