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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of this wonderfully gifted but plain man, just at the time when herbeauty, grace and wit were of the greatest help in his career. We alwayshave been a patriotic race, she continued, and this marriage brought AuntRebecca into still more active touch with all matters pertaining to the inter-ests of the Colonies at this stirring period; and when at last the Declarationof Independence was declared, can you fancy the excitement and enthusiasmof the wife of Roger Sherman; the man who had so much to do with themomentous document? When a little later George Washington designedand ordered the new flag to be made by Betsy Ross, nothing would satisfyAunt Rebecca but to go and see it in the works, and there she had theprivilege of sewing some of the stars on the very first flag of the youngNation. Perhaps because of this experience, she was chosen and requestedto make the first flag ever made in the State of Connecticut,—which shedid, assisted by Mrs. Wooster. This fact is officially recorded.
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