Betsy+Ross.

Betsy Ross was a successful person in Colonial times. Betsy was born Elizabeth Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1, 1752. She was the eighth of seventeen children. She had a strict discipline of the society of friends when she was a child. She learned to sew from her aunt Sarah Griscom. She made the first American flag. She incorporated on the flag stars representing the first thirteen colonies. This was after a visit in June 1776 by George Washington, Robert Morris, and her husband's uncle, who was George Ross. She got married in 1773 with Jonh Ross. They started their own Upholstery Business and joined Christ Church. Her husband died in 1776. After that she got married two more times in 1777 and 1783. She died on January 30, 1836. She was reburied in the Free Quaker Burying Ground in 1857. By Elsa.