betsy ross who was best now fr making the american flag was born Elizabeth Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 1,
1752. A fourth-generation American, and the great-granddaughter of a
carpenter who had arrived in New Jersey in 1680 from England, Betsy was
the eighth of 17 children. Like her sisters, she attended Quaker schools
and learned sewing and other crafts common in her day.
