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Refutation of Betsy Ross myth argued by Alrich widow
Emma B Alrich widow of Levi L Alrich and Kansas newspaper editors argue Betsy Ross did create the first American flag. The pamphlet History Not Myth cites genealogies and Canby testimony from 1860s era sources, asserting Washington and a congressional committee instructed Ross to sew the flag in 1777.
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Etsy Ross
Levi L. Alrich
Emma B. Alrich
Alriches
Public Record
Cawker City
Kan
Alrich
National Tribune
Washington, D. C
Betsy Ross
California Regiment
Seventy-first
Pennsylvania Infantry
National Woman’s Relief Corps
Alaric G. Alrich
Sons of Veterans of Kansas
State Historical Society
Friends’ Meetings
Holland Society of
New York
Jacob and
Peter Alrich Atd
Delaware
Peter Stuyvesant
William J. Canby
Canby
America
Thomas Canby
Thorn
England
Susan Canby
Peter Alrich
Susan
Pennsylvania Historical Society
Ross
Cauby
Ulrich
Griscom
Elisabeth Griscom
Samuel
Rebecca Griscom
Andrew Griscom
Washington
John
Zillah
Eliza
Joseph Ashburn
Mill
Portsmouth
John Claypoole
Philadelphia
Claypoole
Delaware River
Clarissa Wilson
Navy Yard
Colonel Ross
Robert Morris
General Washington
Mrs. Ross
Congress