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Colors and Stripes Used

Mastai, The Stars and the Stripes[m2o73] mentions the stripes of the American flag in the revolutionary period, and how various liberties were taken with them.

"It would be a mistake to think that the 'American stripes' were limited to the three colors red, white, and blue.

In the early years of the Republic, the symbolism of the stripes proper, rather than their color, mattered most.

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... Nor was the 'color of hope' left out, as records exist of various green-striped American flags. The charge book of a Philadelphia ship's chandler lists, for December 20, 1775, 'a Union Flagg, Green and Red, 13 stripes,' while a bill found among the papers of the Governor of Delaware for 1783 includes 'a pieces of Green silk... for a Continental Flag' - this no less than six years after the red and white stripes had been officially established by the Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777.

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