John Ross
BIRTH
1752
New Castle, Delaware
DEATH
January 21, 1776
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
FATHER:
Aeneas Ross
(1716-1782)
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Ross, John
(1752-1776)
John Ross (1752-1776) was a military officer and the spouse of Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross was a social hostess whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected John Ross to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in New Castle, Delaware and later dying in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including John Ross in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Betsy Ross
(1752-1836)
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DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jan 21, 1776
The exact date and place of John Ross’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Ross with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Ross died on Jan 21, 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.