By the outbreak on the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the Rosss have been struggling financially and so John Ross joined the Pennsylvania militia; he was killed in January 1776. Immediately after his death, Betsy Ross joined the "Fighting Quakers" which, in contrast to standard Quakers, supported the war effort. It was through this time just after her husband death that Betsy Ross according to her loved ones history, that she met with George Washington and two signers on the Declaration of Independence, George Ross and Robert Morris, at her upholstery small business to go over the sewing on the initially Usa flag.