NATIONAL  SOCIETY  COLONIAL  DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY






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                                  1896

      The National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
was formed in Brooklyn in 1896 and later chartered by the State of New York.
The Founder and First President of the Society was Mrs. Harlan P. Halsey.
Other persons who acted as Incorporators of the Society were Sarah M.
Higgins, Isabella N. Talmage, Bertha H. Reed, Jennie B. Davol, Mary Alden
White, and Rena I. Halsey.
      The Society maintains scholarships at Lincoln Memorial University;
presents  awards to honor graduates at military academies; maintains an
historical display at the Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes, Delaware; supports
the Orange Orthopaedic Hospital in New Jersey; has restored important papers
at the Swem Library of William and Mary College, and has established a Rare
Book Fund at the college for the purpose of replacing the books burned in
the library in 1705; has published eight lineage books; and has presented a
lectern purchased in Great Britain, patterned after the original, to the old
Jamestowne Church.
      At the present time, the Society has twenty-one chapters.

                        O B J E C T I V E S

      The objectives of this Society are patriotic, educational,
Philanthropic and historical.
      To preserve the memory of the Founders of this nation.
      To commemorate historical incidents of the Colonial period.
      To collect and preserve Colonial relics and documents.
      To erect tablets at places of historic interest relating to the
Colonial period.

        M E M B E R S H I P   R E Q U I R E M E N T S

      Any woman of good moral character and reputation, past the age of
eighteen years, lineally descended from an ancestor who rendered service
from 1607 to 1699 inclusive, according to the eligibility list as given in
the national by-laws, may be considered a candidate for membership in the
Society.
      Membership in the Society is by invitation. An applicant for
membership may join the Society either through a chapter or as a
member-at-large.

                              Address

               Mrs. Isaac D. Shank
               Corresponding Secretary General
               National Society, Colonial Daughters of
               the Seventeenth Century
               Post Office Box 290
               138 Claremont Road
               Bernardsville, New Jersey 07924


Source:  The Hereditary Register of the United States of America
Publisher:  United States Hereditary Register, Inc.-Washington D.C.
Copyright:  1972-1974

Transcribed by Miriam Medina
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