Elizabeth Griscom who was born on 1 January 1752 N.J. her Father Samuel is a successful Carpenter and a Quaker he purchased 495 acres of land in the spring garden section North of the city of Philadelphia.
Elizabeth is also known as Betsy went to a friend's public School and church. She fell in love with John Ross who was the son of an Episcopalian rector at Christ Church. The two eloped in November 1773 and wed in New Jersey. Her wedding caused a split with her family and her being readout of the Quaker Meeting House.
The couple started an upholstery business in Philadelphia and you could find Betsy and her husband John at Christ Church sitting in pew 12. John was mortally wounded in an explosion while guarding ammunitions in 1776. He died on the 21st and was buried at Christ Church Cemetery
Betsy married in June of 1777 to Captain Joseph Ashburn a ceremony performed at Old Swedes Church on Swanson Street, Philadelphia PA. Joseph was captured by the British on a trip to West Indies he ended up in prison in England and died in March of 1782.
In May of 1783, Betsy married a third time to John Claypool the ceremony was performed at Christ Church. The couple had five daughters and John passed away in 1817 after years of illness.
Betsy died on 30 January 1836 and has been buried in three different locations. The free Quaker burial ground is on South 5th Street, Mount Moriah Cemetery, and now on Arch Street adjacent to the Betsy Ross house. In 1975 the American bicentennial city leaders ordered the remains of Betsy to be moved from Mount Moriah Cemetery to the Betsy Ross house. However, Cemetery workers found no remains beneath her tombstone. Bones found elsewhere in the family plot were deemed to be hers and we're reinterred at the Betsy Ross house.
Betsy's children: Clarissa Claypool, Susanna Claypool, Elizabeth Claypool, Jane Claypool, Harriet Claypool, Rachel Claypool, Susanna Claypool, and Acilla Ashburn.
https://historicphiladelphia.org/betsy-ross-house/what-to-see/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross_House
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1619546/mount-moriah-cemetery
https://christchurchphila.org/
