Does anybody know info on betsy ross"s birth?

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I NEED A PARAGRAPH OF INFORMATION PLEASE HELP

Answer 1

You might find something here --- these are public domain and can be downloaded for free. Just remember to quote your sources if this is for a school paper.

http://books.google.com/books?q=Betsy+Ro...

Happy hunting.

Answer 2

Betsy Ross was born on January 1, 1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the eighth of seventeen children and lived at 239 Arch Street. She became an upholsterer and seamstress. She married John Ross in a New Jersey tavern at the age of 21. She had seven daughters. She died in 1836, at the age of 84.

She made the first official American flag know as "The Stars and Stripes" in 1776. It is believed that George Washington wanted six-pointed stars, but Betsy persuaded him to make them five-pointed. The congress adopted "The Stars and Stripes" in 1777.

When her husband died she took over his upholstery business.

Answer 3

Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836) was an American woman said to have sewn the first American flag which incorporated stars representing the first thirteen colonies though "many details about her life are conjecture based on research." Born Elizabeth ("Betsy") Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1, 1752, she was the 8th of 17 children. She "grew up in a household where the plain dress and strict discipline of the Society of Friends dominated her life."

     She learned to sew from her great-aunt Sarah Griscom.

After she finished her schooling at a Quaker public school, her father apprenticed her to an upholsterer named William Webster. At this job, she fell in love with fellow apprentice John Ross, son of an assistant rector at (Episcopal) Christ Church.  As inter-denominational marriages typically lead to being read out of their Quaker meeting house, the couple eloped in 1773 when she was 21, marrying at Hugg's Tavern in New Jersey. The wedding caused a split from her family and meant her "expulsion from the Quaker congregation." The young couple soon started their own upholstery business and joined Christ Church.

     When the Revolution started, John joined the Pennsylvania militia and was seriously injured by the explosion of an ammunition cache in mid-January 1776. He soon died and was buried in Christ Church cemetery.

     After her first husband's death, Ross she married sea captain Joseph Ashburn at Old Swedes' Church in Philadelphia. British soldiers forcibly occupied their house when they controlled the city in 1777. The couple had two daughters together in 1779 and 1781. 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, Ross 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, including making flags for the United States of America, until 1827.  After her retirement, she moved in with her married daughter, Susannah Satterthwaite, who continued to operate the business. Ross died in Philadelphia at age 84.

     Ross's body was first buried at the Free Quaker burial ground on South 5th Street. Twenty years later, her remains were exhumed and reburied in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery in the Cobbs Creek Park section of Philadelphia. In preparation for the United States Bicentennial, the city ordered the remains moved to the courtyard of the Betsy Ross House in 1975; however, workers found no remains under her tombstone. Bones found elsewhere in the family plot were deemed to be hers and were reinterred in the current grave visited by tourists at the Betsy Ross House.

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Elizabeth Griscom Ross

Birth: 1 Jan 1752  

Death: 30 Jan 1836 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, USA  

Burial: Feb 1836 Free Quaker Burying Ground in Philadelphia, , Pennsylvania

        Occupation: Flag and Uppolstery Maker

Employment Abt 1 Jun 1776 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania.

Note: by Committee of the Continental Congress, accompanied by George Washington to make first flag of the United States.

Religion: Friend in the Society of Free Quakers 5

Event: Alt. Buried 1857 Mt. Noriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, , Pennsylvania, USA

Her parents:

Samuel Griscom  (b.1694 ; d. BET. 1762 - 1829 )

Rebecca James (b. BET. 1729 - 1733 ;d. BET. 1742 - 1835 )

BETSY:

Marriage 1 John Ross (Abt 1773 )

Born: 1752

New Castle, New Castle Co, DE

Died : 10 Jan. 1776 (after explosion of ammunition dump)

Burial: 20 Jan 1776 Christ Church Burying Ground in Philadelphia

Marriage 2  :15 Jun 1777 in Old Swedes Church in Philadelphia, , Pennsylvania to:

        Joseph Ashburn

Birth:  1743

Death: 3 Mar 1782 in Mill Prison of "prevailing contagion" in prison

Children:  s*x --Birth  

Ashburn-- F      

Josephine Ashburn-- F

Marriage 3:  8 May 1783 to:

   John Claypoole (Parents:  William Claypoole  &  Elizabeth Hall )

b: 15 Aug 1752 in Mt. Holly, , New Jersey, USA

d. 1817 ,Philadelphia, PA

Their Children:

Daughter Four Claypoole-- F      

Daughter-Five Claypoole-- F      

Daughter-Three Claypoole-- F      

Virginia Maude Claypoole-- F 1788    

Jane Claypoole-- F BET. 1777 - 1800

(FAMILY NOTES: Betsy had 7 sisters--Deborah, Hannah, Mary, Rachel, Sarah (lists 2--one born 1693, the other no birthdate), Susanna; 2 brothers--David and Tobias; plus 2 others listed as Joseph and John Kaighn,Jr. The other 5 siblings are not shown)

Answer 4

Elizabeth Griscom — also called Betsy, their eighth child and a fourth-generation American, was born on January 1, 1752