The wool and cotton muslin flag sewn with thirteen stars in a staggered 3-2-3-2-3 arrangement, and seven red and six white stripes, the back of the blue field embroidered ABY, and side hanging bar inscribed A.B. Young. Height 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m); length 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) Note: The design, entitled the "Abel Buell Flag" was originally pictured in Abel Buell's (1742-1825) book of 1783 "A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America." By repute this particular flag has descended through an American family for 200 years. It is embroidered with the initials of Andrew B. Young (1822-1898), a pioneer, merchant and seafaring man, who was instrumental in the development of the city of Portland, Maine. His grandfather Abraham Young (1756-1829) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War serving in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces and under General George Washington at Valley Forge.
The wool and cotton muslin flag sewn with thirteen stars in a staggered 3-2-3-2-3 arrangement, and seven red and six white stripes, the back of the blue field embroidered ABY, and side hanging bar inscribed A.B. Young. Height 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m); length 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) Note: The design, entitled the "Abel Buell Flag" was originally pictured in Abel Buell's (1742-1825) book of 1783 "A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America." By repute this particular flag has descended through an American family for 200 years. It is embroidered with the initials of Andrew B. Young (1822-1898), a pioneer, merchant and seafaring man, who was instrumental in the development of the city of Portland, Maine. His grandfather Abraham Young (1756-1829) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War serving in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces and under General George Washington at Valley Forge.
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