User contributions for Fran Featherston
A user with 284 edits. Account created on 16 May 2014.
14 July 2024
- 19:4319:43, 14 July 2024 diff hist +651 Francis Hopkinson →United States Flag: Added information to support the stripe configuration--seven stripes, not six below the canton.
7 March 2024
- 00:5300:53, 7 March 2024 diff hist +7 m Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: edited the sentence for clarity and capitalization
- 00:5100:51, 7 March 2024 diff hist +646 Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: Because we have had to change the flag two times, we are adding an explanation of why there are seven stripes below the canton (star area) rather than the six stripes of the current U.S. flag
2 March 2024
- 00:4800:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist +513 m Francis Hopkinson Replaced two flag images with historically correct versions--seven stripes below canton (box with stars), NOT six. Also, remaining flag was mislabelled. See Earl Williams article as cited. Thank you.
- 00:3900:39, 2 March 2024 diff hist +212 m Flag of the United States Changed reference for Williams article to archived version used earlier in this article.
- 00:1600:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist +45 m Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: Hopkinson's flag for the United States now reverted back to version with 7 stripes below the canton (box with stars). This is the historically correct version from Earl Williams article. If the PDF or PNG is difficult to use, please convert to another format, but do not change the image. Thanks! This is the second time I've had to revert the image to the one in Mr. Williams' article at his request.
- 00:0100:01, 2 March 2024 diff hist −3 m Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: Fixed reference that disappeared
1 March 2024
- 23:5723:57, 1 March 2024 diff hist +11 Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: Changed flag to the correct, historical flag with seven stripes below the canton (the box with the stars) as it appears in the referenced article by Earl Williams
19 February 2024
- 17:2117:21, 19 February 2024 diff hist −26 m 85-15 Wareham Place Adding reference to 1950 Census to clarify that second childhood home was on Midland Parkway.
- 17:1417:14, 19 February 2024 diff hist +77 m Residences of Donald Trump Adding reference to 1950 U.S. Census and Midland Parkway address
23 May 2023
- 01:1201:12, 23 May 2023 diff hist −4 Francis Hopkinson →United States Flag: Fixed typo - this flag was the Navy flag in the referenced article. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
22 May 2023
- 17:5217:52, 22 May 2023 diff hist −12 Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: This is reversal to the previous flag image. Also, the framing of the previous version made the stripes easier to see. There should be seven stripes below the canton, not six, the common practice for the earliest Stars and Stripes flags. For example, the 1779 paintings of the USS "Alliance" and USS "Serapis" by a Dutch artist in Texel have the canton resting on seven stripes. (Source: Furlong, William Rea and Byron McCandless. "So Proudly We Hail... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 17:3217:32, 22 May 2023 diff hist −33 Flag of the United States →Designer of the first stars and stripes: Reverted to previous image of flag. There should be seven stripes below the canton, not six, the common practice for the earliest Stars and Stripes flags. For example, the 1779 paintings of the USS "Alliance" and USS "Serapis" by a Dutch artist in Texel have the canton resting on seven stripes. (Source: Furlong, William Rea and Byron McCandless. "So Proudly We Hail: The History of the United States Flag." Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 17:1517:15, 22 May 2023 diff hist −180 Francis Hopkinson →United States Flag: Reversal to previous version of this image. There should be seven stripes below the canton, not six, the common practice for the earliest Stars and Stripes flags. For example, the 1779 paintings of the USS "Alliance" and USS "Serapis" by a Dutch artist in Texel have the canton resting on seven stripes. (Source: Furlong, William Rea and Byron McCandless. "So Proudly We Hail: The History of the United States Flag." Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1981. p. 130... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
24 September 2022
- 19:3619:36, 24 September 2022 diff hist −73 m Grand Union Flag →History: Editing overly complicated sentence
- 19:3219:32, 24 September 2022 diff hist +19 Grand Union Flag Add the fact that the flag of Great Britain is called the Union Jack.
- 19:2419:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist 0 m Grand Union Flag →History: Moved footnote to cover entire sentence
- 19:2119:21, 24 September 2022 diff hist −11 Grand Union Flag →History: Union Jack is a more precise term
18 August 2022
- 18:2018:20, 18 August 2022 diff hist −258 Grand Union Flag →History: The Bennington Flag was not used during the Revolutionary War; it was not used until the 50th anniversary of the flag, so that reference is deleted and re-edited with a new reference.
4 August 2022
- 15:3715:37, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,420 m Flag of the United States →Flag Resolution of 1777: Moved from First Flag section since it describes the stars in the flag and the first flag had no stars.
- 15:3415:34, 4 August 2022 diff hist −2,432 m Flag of the United States →First flag: moving information on stars to flag that has stars
- 14:2014:20, 4 August 2022 diff hist −1 Flag of the United States →First flag: removed extra space Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:1814:18, 4 August 2022 diff hist −2 Flag of the United States The link for Continental Colors goes to the Grand Union Flag, so I switched the hyperlinks to say "Grand Union Flag" and removed the hyperlinks for the Continental Colors in most places Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:1114:11, 4 August 2022 diff hist +541 Flag of the United States Added information on the first time this flag was used --for the navy by John Paul Jones. Edited the first two paragraphs to put things in better order. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
1 July 2022
- 19:0119:01, 1 July 2022 diff hist +14 m Flag of the United States Revert to Original File so that two flags of Francis Hopkinson have the same size canton. Doing this at the author's request. The delete canton for the 13 stars is too wide.
23 January 2022
- 23:4223:42, 23 January 2022 diff hist +76 m Francis Hopkinson →Education and career: Changed "member of the Navy Board" to "Chairman of the Navy Board" and added dates for that position
- 23:3723:37, 23 January 2022 diff hist +30 m Francis Hopkinson →Education and career: fixed dates of service for Second Continental Congress
5 January 2022
- 02:0802:08, 5 January 2022 diff hist −109 January 1 →1601–1900: Betsy Ross is not credited with designing the flag by anyone other than family members. See the Betsy Ross Article in Wikipedia as well as Marla Miller's book.
9 November 2021
- 20:1120:11, 9 November 2021 diff hist +453 User talk:Wham2001 →References: new section Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 20:0820:08, 9 November 2021 diff hist +243 User talk:JaGa →Betsy Ross Flag article fixing link: new section
- 19:4319:43, 9 November 2021 diff hist 0 m Betsy Ross flag Added two hyphens Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:0403:04, 9 November 2021 diff hist −1 m Betsy Ross flag Corrected spelling of Ellie Wheeler's first name from the source by Harker Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 03:0003:00, 9 November 2021 diff hist −155 Betsy Ross flag Deleted this reference as misrepresenting Harker. He actually said, ...it shows a real woman and a group of three men, consistent with Betsy’s description of the “committee” who called on her for a flag." He does not say it IS Betsy Ross. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 02:3102:31, 9 November 2021 diff hist +3,494 Betsy Ross flag Added materials to show actual source of the flag was not Betsy Ross. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Disambiguation links added
7 September 2021
- 14:1014:10, 7 September 2021 diff hist −1 m Lawrence Kasdan Typo Alfre NOT Alfred Woodard
7 August 2021
- 19:4219:42, 7 August 2021 diff hist 0 m Betsy Ross →Early life and education: Updated publication date for Harker reference.
16 May 2021
- 20:3420:34, 16 May 2021 diff hist −53 Francis Hopkinson Took out statement that Hopkinson designed first coin. No support is given for this, and we could not find any in Hopkinson's biography or other sources.
23 March 2021
- 19:2219:22, 23 March 2021 diff hist −6 Gloucester City, New Jersey Deleted reference to Betsy Ross designing first flag since that is now considered to be myth and legend.
7 March 2021
- 14:2814:28, 7 March 2021 diff hist −4 m Betsy Ross Took out hyperlink on advice of your Bot
6 March 2021
- 19:0519:05, 6 March 2021 diff hist +549 m Francis Hopkinson →Great Seal of the United States: Changing format of reference.
- 19:0419:04, 6 March 2021 diff hist −549 m Francis Hopkinson →United States Flag: Changing format on citations
- 18:4418:44, 6 March 2021 diff hist −1 m Betsy Ross →Early life and education: Changed footnote to Harker, page 28, rather than page 133, to improve reference.
- 18:4118:41, 6 March 2021 diff hist +229 Betsy Ross Timmins book say Betsy Ross was born on her parents' farm at the eastern origin of the Walt Whitman bridge, which is Gloucester City, N. J.
- 18:2718:27, 6 March 2021 diff hist +3 m Betsy Ross Adding birthplace
- 18:2318:23, 6 March 2021 diff hist −3 m Betsy Ross Changing birthplace to match text
22 January 2021
- 18:3118:31, 22 January 2021 diff hist −50 Betsy Ross flag A similar flag design with 6-pointed stars appeared in a 1782 proposal for the Great Seal. This flag design made appearances in paintings as early as 1792. However, it was not widely known until a painting of Betsy Ross by Weisgerber was displayed in 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair. After the fair, the painting appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and was distributed to schools.
- 17:3317:33, 22 January 2021 diff hist 0 Betsy Ross flag Year should be 1792, not 1777. Grace Cooper's book says no such flag found before 1792.
5 January 2021
- 02:1602:16, 5 January 2021 diff hist +21 m Francis Hopkinson →Great Seal of the United States: clarification that subject is Great Seal of the U.S.
25 November 2020
- 03:1203:12, 25 November 2020 diff hist −1,985 User talk:Fran Featherston →ArbCom 2019 election voter message
3 November 2020
- 19:2919:29, 3 November 2020 diff hist +483 Charles Bierstadt →Biography: Added trip to Europe and the Near East and his award at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair
