Comments on: Mr. Local History 2025 Summer Magazine Vol 7. Issue 2 https://mrlocalhistory.org/magazine-summer-2025/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: alan hurley https://mrlocalhistory.org/magazine-summer-2025/#comment-232310 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:14:25 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=57445#comment-232310 The first American Flag was authorized by the 2nd Continental Congress and created by Francis Hopkinson of Congress and of the Maritime Committee on JUN 14, 1777 (now Flag Day). It was flown at Middlebrook. Hopkinson is buried in Philadelphia.
It was 13 stripes, and a blue field containing 13 six point (not five point stars) in a a pattern of 3,2,3,2,3 either vertically or horiziontally.

When Bound Brook Library in New Jersey reopens you can see it flying in their two murals or at the annual ceremony at Washington’s Campgrounds in the Watchungs.

Ross became popular in the 1790s.

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