This flag is available in: 4x6" Poly Mounted, 3x5' Nylon w/ Heading and Grometts, 1'11" x 2'8" and 2'8" x 3'9" Nylon w/ Line and Toggle. 

     In the autumn of 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Army readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued an instruction directing his vessels to fly a stiped jack and ensign. The exact design of this flag is unknown. The ensign was likely to have been the Grand Union Flag, and the jack a simplified version of the ensign: a field of 13 horizontal red and white stripes. However, the jack has traditionally been depicted as consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto "Dont Tread on Me" (sic); this tradition dates back a least to 1880, when this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential History of the Flag of the United States. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this inferred design never actually existed but "was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving. In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of Naples, thanking him for allowing entry of American ships into Scicilian ports. The letter describes the American flag according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of "South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of thirteen stripes".