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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
Captain Nicholas Johnson, of Newburyport, master of the ship Count de Grasse, is reported to have first displayed the stars and stripes as the American ensign on the river Thames, Connecticut; but the honor has since been claimed in behalf of a barque named the Maria, afterwards engaged in the
whaling trade, and which was still in use in 1856, having returned to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in that year, undoubtedly the oldest vessel in America.
Paul Jones is accredited with being the man to first raise them as the flag of America on a naval vessel named The Alfred, and in 1777 to have received the first salute for it in European waters, although opinions are advanced that the ship Bedford, of Nantncket, Captain Wm, Mooers, should have the honor of first displaying the flag in a British port.
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