Show only tradition as to maker of first flag it Is hard to distinguish between legend and truth about the first american flag and what betsy ross had to do with it it the tradition la Is that in may washington accompanied by two of his officers called upon mrs ross who operated an upholstering establishment contin continuing lulng a business left at the death of her husband to make a flag of their design and that this was the first american flag of the official pattern adopted june 14 1177 the matter Is in dispute through claims that a flag of the same sam or nearly the same design had been used before there Is some rivalry for honor associated with the origin of tho the fing and confusion wrought by painters and colonial story writers who drew upon their imaginations imagination s to add interest to the legend has ha invited the pressing of some rather nebulous claims there Is no historical account meeting with such approval as to warrant the assertion that it is the truth |