George Washington himself ... Three men entered her shop in May or June 1776, according to the Ross family's later flag origin story. "She knew the handsome form and features of the dignified ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross ... have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery ...

EVERY American schoolboy knows that Betsy Ross made the first U.S. flag for George Washington ... was raised above Washington’s troops at Cambridge on Jan. 1, 1776. It had 13 red and white ...

Yet this same flag of thirteen stars and thirteen stripes ... honest rag paper on which Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and the Continental Congress wrote their documents, and Paine penned ...