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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1634   John Endecott defaces King's colors Radical Puritan John Endecott of Salem believed that the image of the cross was idolatrous. A website for the Popham Colony has a representation of such a flag. Endicott, Endecott, flag, Hawthorne, Puritans
1777   Congress defines American flag    
1837   Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross"   flag, cross, Endicott

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