Margaret Manny
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Margaret Manny was a milliner in colonial Philadelphia who made flags for the United States during the American Revolution.
Manny began making jacks and ensigns for ships as early as December 1774. [1]. She also made the Grand Union Flag, or Continental Colors, first flown by John Paul Jones aboard the Alfred on 3 December 1775.
Historian Barbara Tuchman suggested that the reason Betsy Ross became famous for making flags instead of the relatively unknown Margaret Manny was "probably for no better reason than that she had fewer articulate friends and relatives to build a story around her." [2]
[edit] References
- Leepson, Marc Flag: An American Biography 2004. ISBN 0-312-32308-5
- Tuchman, Barbara The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. 1988. ISBN 0-394-55333-0
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