At the request of Dr. Franklin, Mr. Robert Morris and Col. George Ross, she designed and made the first FLAG of the United States, consisting of thirteen red and white stripes, a blue field as a square, on the left and upper corner, and upon the blue field was a spread eagle, with thirteen stars, in a circle of rays of glory, surrounding its head, and the United States SEAL was afterwards made from the same design of the United States Flag, viz: A red, white and blue shield on the breast of an American Eagle, holding in its talons an olive branch and thirteen arrows; in its beak a scroll inscribed with this motto, “_E Pluribus Unum_,” and above its head thirteen stars arranged in a circle of glory. These designs were approved and adopted by the Committee and Congress, and they were made before the words “United States of America,” were legally used. The country was called “Columbia,” the Congress was styled the “Continental Congress,” the States were called “Colonies,”; every petition sent to the King of Great Britain, and every public document, were issued by “The North American Colonies;” our Country _had no name_ until BETSY ROSS marked upon her Flags, “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” Dr. Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been appointed (December, 1775, by Congress, a Secret Committee) to prepare a FLAG, and a device for a SEAL for the Colonies, and Dr. Rittenhouse was requested by the Committee, to engrave the Seal corresponding with the eagle on the Flag. On the 4th day of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was finished and signed, and the Rev. Dr. Duché, Chaplain of Congress, had offered up his celebrated “_Prayer of Independence_,” the STAR SPANGLED BANNER was unfurled, and emblazoned the Hall of Independence, and hung around the spire of the Old State House Bell, as it sounded its tones of warning beyond the city limits, re-echoed across the Delaware, and proclaimed the liberty of the land, amidst the thundering shouts of Freemen, the roaring of cannons, musketry, firearms, and bonfires; then the Secret Committee, Franklin, Jefferson and Adams, was publicly announced by the President of Congress, and the SEAL (already made) of the “_United Colonies_,” was used that day. Aye! the Flags waved, the Seal was engraved, and the thirteen “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” were saved. The Flag was afterwards adopted by Congress, June 14, 1777, and September 15, 1789, they passed the act, that “The SEAL heretofore used by the ‘UNITED COLONIES’ in Congress assembled, shall be the SEAL of the ‘UNITED STATES;’” and for his beautiful workmanship in engraving that seal, Dr. Rittenhouse was honored with the appointment of Director of the United States Mint; and Franklin styled Rittenhouse, “the Newton of America.”