Who Stitched the First American Flag?

Although seamstress Betsy Ross is often credited as the maker of the first American flag, there's no evidence that's true. The myth was born during a wave of flag fervor that swept the nation nearly a hundred years after the Revolutionary War.

Who made first American flag?

Betsy Ross made the first American flag.

Who was asked to sew the first flag?

Betsy would often tell her children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends of a fateful day, late in May of 1776, when three members of a secret committee from the Continental Congress came to call upon her. Those representatives, George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross, asked her to sew the first flag.

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