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No. While Betsy Ross is better known, it is a myth that she sewed the first flag. A woman from Baltimore named Mary Pickersgill was first, in 1813, and many historians believe it was her flag that inspired Francis Scott Key, who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."

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