Did Betsy Ross have special training?

Answer 1

She attended the Friends public school and then was apprenticed to a local upholsterer. Apprenticeship usually began about 10-12 years old and lasted for 7 years. While an apprentice she met John Ross who was also an apprentice with the same person.. In 1773 at 21 years old she and Ross eloped.

Answer 2

No. Betsy Ross attended a Quaker public school for 8 hours a day for primary school, where she learned reading, writing, and a trade (probably sewing). As was traditional at the time, after primary school she was apprenticed to learn more about her trade, in her case to a local upholsterer.

Answer 3

WHAT!