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pid: M5BC-QBT imageURL: https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/lnsbj/thumb200s.jpg url: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross name: Betsy Ross (nee Elizabeth Griscom) gender: Female desc: "Elizabeth Griscom Ross née Griscom; January 1, 1752\_– January 30, 1836, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first official U.S. flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though most historians dismiss the story, Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and two members of a congressional committee—Robert Morris and George Ross—visited Mrs. Ross in 1776. Mrs. Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter."