Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-06-27
COOCH'S BRIDGE MEMORIAL.

Committee Arranges for Unwilling Sep
TENDER 1fth--Sumcrois Subscriptions.
The joint COMMITTEES to arrange for
unveiling memorial stone to mark the
site OF Coochs Bridge, where the
Amer lean flag is supposed first to have
been unfurled IL battle, met last week
at the Historical Society Building.
1t is proposed to have the unwilling on
September Sd.
6 A letter was read last week from
Colonel Francis @. Hooten Of West
Chester, Pa. At the celebration of the
Battle of the Brandywino last year at
Birmingham, Pa, Col Hooten made an
exhaustive study of the subject and
he says that, undoubtedly to him, the
flag was carried in the fights at Coouh's
Bridge and alcng the road 10 the.
Brandywine prior to the big battle
near Chadd's Ford Colonel Hooten
says that he found his view upheld in
the works of COLONEL Robert o. Hall,
the recognized historical authority OF
the United State Army.
A committee composed of Chief
justice Charles B. Lore. j. Wilkins
Cooch aud Howard DeHaven Ross was
appointed to prepare the programme for
the celebration. Among the speakers
will BIO Walter s. Logan, of New York,
president-general of the National So.
ciety Sons of the American Revolution,
and Mrs, O. N. Fairbanks wife
OF Senator Fairbanks OF Indiana
aud president general of the National
Society Daughters Of the American
Revolution. City Solicitor Henry G.
Conrad will read short history Of the
battle at Cooch's Bridge and how the
A r,a rso aa,. ~. Il q.
Governor Hum and his staff will be
invited to attend and there will be
other distinguished guests. Tho com
mite decided to have the grandson of
J. Wilkins Cooch and tie son of Howard
Deljayen Ross pull the cords which
will unveil the monument.
This inscription TO be placed On the
stone will be-: 1.-THE American Flag
was First Unfurled in Battle at Cooch s
Bridge. Delaware, September Cd, 1777.
Erected 10y the Patriotic Societies and
Citizens of the State Of Delaware, Sep
TENDER Sd, 1901. 4
over the top OF the inscription will
be engraved design of the original
flag of the United States with the Is
stars.
The total subscriptions amount to
$3.50. The societies which have sub
soribed are;
Delaware Society, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution, s61 Delaware Society,
Daughters of the American Revol ution,
sos Delaware Society, daughters Of the
Revolution, $50: Delaware Society
Children of ths American Revolution,
S15; Delaware Junior Auxiliary Sons
and Daughters of the Revolution. IS;
Delaware Society of the Colonial Wars,
$50; Delaware Society of Colonial
DANES, $50; Historical Society of Della
ware. 500; Delaware Society OF the
Cincinnati. $40; members of the Della
ware Bar, $40: the New Century Club
of Newark, $40.
Individual subscriptions were re-
ceived from the following Walter S.
Logan, Esq, president-genera Ma
tional Society Sons OF American Revo-
luton, Mrs Helen o. Porter of Balti-
more, Colonel Henry A. dupont, j.
Wilkins Cooch, Miss Anna 7. Candy,
+. William Curtis OF Newark, Mrs.
Priscilla II. Richardson Of Dover. Mrs.
Annie Whiteley Lindsay, Miss Geargi-
anna Il. Martin and Miss HalliesH.
Martin OF Newark, the Rev. Thomas Q.
Potter, Glasgow Sarah II. Balderston,
Representative John W. bayett, DIR. j.
II. Jarmar of Elkton, DIR. John j.
Black OF New Castle, George w. Will
hams. Newark; DIR, George A. Harter
of Newark; Thomas L. Fleming, John
Casson, William Salisbury Mrs. Alice
II. pennswill, II. l. Beers and DIR. II.
s. Anderson of Dover.