Our Ancestor - Betsy Ross...Fact or Fiction?

As I was growing up, I was told that we were related to Betsy Ross through our Ross line. (Florence Camilla Ross 1862 -1942 was Grandma Forman's (Annie Elizabeth Baragwanath 1890-1968) mother.

 Elizabeth Griscom (called Betsy) was born into a Quaker family in 1752 while the family lived in New Jersey. As a small child, the family moved to Philadelphia. While we think of her as a seamstress, she was actually a trained upholsterer.

While apprenticing in that trade, she met another apprentice, John Ross. (Not OUR John Ross!) Problem was, he was Anglican, not Quaker, and her family was not happy. But when you're in love... So they skipped across the river to New Jersey and were married. Then they set up their own upholstery shop in Phillie. They even made bed hangings for George Washington during the First Continental Congress in 1774.

Just two years later, John passed away, leaving Betsy a childless widow at age 24. Did you catch that? CHILDLESS.

Betsy later remarried (twice) and had 7 daughters in all, but none of them are related to us.
So the bubble is burst.