Our flag, its history and changes from 1607 to 1910 (1910)
Champion, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), b. 1832 · New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. · leaf 14
e settlers to give up the project and return toEngland. This red cross of St. George was Englands flag until the year 1606,over two hundred and fifty years. In that year, 1606, Scotland was added to England, and King James I,in honor of the union, placed the white cross of St. Andrew on the… … Union colors, and the first permanent settlements in this country weremade under its protection. It was the flag of the Mayflower in 1620. Massachusetts records speak of it as in use in that colony in 1634. In November of that year a Mr. Endicott of Salem defaced the Kingscolors. Much excitement…
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