Interesting there are facts we were told and believed and later find out are wrong. For instance, the Declaration of Independence was actually voted and passed on July 2nd rather than the 4th!
Then there is also the 1819 John Trumbull painting, “The Declaration of Independence,” the one on the back of the $2 bill. In the painting, Thomas Jefferson holds the Declaration, surrounded by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and many other signers. As Mr. de Bolla, a noted historian, notes, we have “no record of the signatories to that sheet of parchment ever coming together as a body in the room depicted by Trumbull for the express purpose of signing the document.”
Many state that the words of the Declaration were those of Thomas Jefferson alone when history shows, according to Mr. De Bolla, that about a quarter of what Jefferson wrote, in fact, was dropped from the final document, and a good portion of what remained was changed by Franklin and Adams.
One more fact. Most of us were taught in school that Betsy Ross made the first American flag. Mr. de Bolla, according to the Wall Street Journal, traced the evolution of the myth to 1870, when her grandson, William J. Canby, wrote that his maternal grandmother had made the first Stars and Stripes at George Washington’s behest and that she had helped come up with the flag’s design.
Canby based his claim on stories he had heard from family members since his childhood. He said that his grandmother made the flag after Washington visited her shop on Arch Street in Philadelphia in June 1776. Washington, Canby asserted, was there with two other members of a congressional flag-design committee.
Betsy Ross undoubtedly made flags, Mr. de Bolla acknowledges, but no credible evidence exists that she made the first one or that Congress even had a committee to design a national flag. And if there were such a committee, George Washington wouldn’t have been on it: He was not a member of the Continental Congress, and he was a little busy at the time, what with leading the fight against the British and all.
So, the truth comes to light!
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