The true story of the American flag

I was induced to make this research by the late William H. Egle, Librarian of the State Library at Harrisburg, whose knowledge of the early history of Pennsylvania was of valuable assistance to me in preparing the data for a history of the country along the Delaware river prior to 1682 (yet unfinished). Mr. Egle agreed with me that the claim of Mr. Canby that BETSY Ross designed and made the first flag was legendary and without that foundation which is so necessary to uphold claims of this character. Statements of such a character, then allowed to go unrefuted, do harm to the history of any people, inasmuch as they encourage others to build " air castles " and purchase old portraits to be palmed off on others as our " grandfather " who " fit " in the Revolution, or our " grandmother " who carried supplies to the troops at Valley Forge.

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INTRODUCTION

THE AMERICAN FLAG