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Hi! I'm Betsy Ross. I was born in Philadelphia on January 1 of 1752. I used to have 12 brothers and sisters. My family's last name was Griscom. When I was little my sister, Debbie got married and we went on a wagon ride to see her house. I thought that it was far away because the wagon ride was long. This made me very sad because in the winter the roads would be slippy. But it turns out we were just riding around in the wagon and they would live on the same street as us. I went to two fun schools. I went to school for the first time 1758 when I was 6 years old. I loved school soooo much. Three years later I changed schools. There I made a friend named Sussanah Claypoole. We were great, great friends. One rainy summer day me and Sussanah went down to the wharf to see if there were any ships leaving to England and we met a boy named Joseph Ashburn. When I was older I decided to enter a sewing contest for the high street fair but I couldn't think of anything to sew. One of my sisters sugested she make a sampler. But samplers were for little girls, But, I decided to make a sampler. When I was finished it had the Liberty Bell on because when I was looking at Debbie's house I met Ben Franklin and he called me a twin to the Liberty Bell and it had stars shining all around it with the verse on the bell. The best part was I won first prize wich was 5 pounds. I was very surprized. A long time after, I decided to become an aprentice with John Ross. Soon there was going to be a war against the British. Me and John got married and one day his uncle, George Ross, George Washington and Robert Morris came to my house ond asked me to design a flag for the U.S.. Sadly, since John was in the military he died in an explosion while on guard duty.