Register: 1902.

Preface

THE Order of the Founders and Patriots of America having greatly increased in numbers, the necessity of knowing who were their fellow-members was pressed upon the Associates of the Order, and at the annual meeting of the General Court, May 13, 1901, the subject of gratifying the desire for such information was considered, and a committee was appointed to take up the matter, with directions to report to the Council General. At the autumn meeting of the Council General in 1901 that committee made a report, and the Council General directed the committee to proceed and prepare the material for the Register — then, however, planned to be a modest pamphlet, with provision for binding copies for such Associates as would bear such expense each for himself.

The data and information in possession of the Registrar General was most necessary to the work of the Committee, and to him the committee resorted for his aid and assistance, which was most cheerfully given and was most satisfactory; and the committee desire here to acknowledge the obligations to Associate Teunis Dimon Huntting, the Registrar General of the Order, resting upon every Associate to whom this book shall come, for his persistent, industrious, painstaking and cheerfullyperformed work, in gathering, from the '.'application papers" and the records in his possession, the data and information which has enabled the committee to perform the work laid upon it.

Such a book as this Register must of necessity become a book of reference to very many, a means of preserving family history to those who follow us, and also of gathering up and preserving a record of the personal public services of the Associates of the Order.

Within the forty-one years past, and during the lifetime of most of the Associates, our country has passed through two wars preface.

in which many have served. In view of all this the committee addressed to every Associate a circular letter, asking the same information from all, and to that end requesting answers to the same questions from each, to be returned to the Registrar General. Many who did answer it were very modest concerning their personal history. Some incidents of most honorable service, stated as to many Associates, were not communicated at all by them, and facts not stated by them have been gleaned from other sources. Wherever information given as to one is not given as to another it does not follow that nothing of like interest remained to be communicated as to those of whom like things are not said, but such things were not stated in the information returned. Many Associates, we regret, for reasons no doubt satisfactory to themselves, did not answer the circular letter at all. At the annual meeting of the General Court on May 13, 1902, the committee reported to the General Court a mass of manuscript to be used in the Register, and it was then instructed to go forward with the work, and by vote of the General Court was ordered to print the book for distribution, and an appropriation was made for the purpose liberal enough to satisfy every demand.

The book is now laid before the General Court and the Associates of the Order. It will be found to contain mistakes, no doubt ; but only those persons who have had a hand in such work can appreciate the amount of labor bestowed upon it, or the inevitable liability to error. We beg that any Associate to whom a mistake or omission becomes apparent will be very lenient in judgment and in criticism, and pardon the committee for the unintended error, write to the Registrar General specifying every mistake and stating how it should be corrected, and supply to the Registrar General all omitted information as to himself or any other Associate. By so doing, the Registrar General will have on file the means of correcting errors and adding information in future Registers, which will no doubt follow.

Although personal facts other than genealogical information have been asked and used, it will no doubt be noted that some information, as to the membership, and services, of some Assopreface.

ciates in other societies and clubs, has not been used. If the book were a register of club men, or society men, it would no doubt be very much larger than it is. It has been deemed by the committee best to confine such personal information to the facts concerning Education, College and University degrees, and public services of the Associates.

The Publication Committee desires to remind the Associates of the Order that equal justice should, for the sake of future history, be done to the stories of the personal services of every Associate. If an Associate is so modest as to desire not to give for himself an account of what he has done for his country, some other Associate ought to furnish it for him. We, therefore, ask that every Associate who, in reading this book, shall discover that the public services, civil or military, of any other Associate are not here recorded, will prepare a statement of such services and forward it to the Registrar- General, for use in the preparation of the next Register.

In editing the Roll of Associates, the Committee have found the names of the following Associates who served in the Civil War:

George Emerson Albee, Harry Elihu Atwater, Henry Baldwin, John Blake Burt.

George Washington Case, Edward Pay son Cone, George Eugene Dewey, William Reed Eastman, Julius Merrill Foote, Dexter Newell Force, Charles King Francis, David Maxson Greene, Francis Lowell Hills, Addison Josiah Hinman, Charles Alexander Jewell, Edward Franc Jones, Frederick Munro Hill Kendrick, Stillman Foster Kneeland, George Harlan Lewis,

James Lord,

Richard Worsam Meade, Henry Benjamin Meigs, Samuel Emlen Meigs, William Anderson Mitchell, Thomas George Morton, Charles Humphreys Newton, Henry Langdon Potter, Ralph Earl Prime, Thomas Redfield Proctor, Edward Everett Sill, WilUam Mitchell Stetson, Henry Clay Terry, Sherwood Stratton Thompson, Henry Stewart Turrill, John Stewart White, Daniel Frederick Warren, Stewart Lyndon Woodford, preface.

And the names of the following who served in the late War with Spain :

George Halcoxxrt Barber, David Banks Plum.

Rudolph Eglin Bruckner, Charles Longstreet Poor,

Croorgo Rittor Burnett, Charles Spielman Richards,

Froderiok Dent Grant, Henry Woodward Sackett,

William Ellcry Hills. William Gary Sanger,

John Jay Phelps, Henry Christopher Hand Stewart, Henr)'' Stewait Tiirrill.

As the pages of the book shall be consulted, or read, a fact that cannot escape attention, is the prevalence in the genealogical lines of the Associates of Bible names, and of those easily recognized as peculiarly Puritan names, among the men, as Barnabas, Bartholomew. Job. Daniel, Elijah, Hezekiah, Ebenezer, Joshua, Japeth, Abijah, Elihu, Hopestill, Preserved, Jedediah, Israel, Bezaleel; also amongthe women as Magdalen, Tryphena, Tamar, Hannah, Tabitha, Hepsibah. Deborah, Mehitable, Eunice, Lois, Priscilla, Ruth, Prudence, Mercy. Wait, Submit, Grace. Silence. Plain, Hopestill, Thankful, Experience, Deliverance, Sophronia. Rhoda, Dorcas, Keziah, Penelope, Hepsibeth, Hilpah, and many others of the like, all of which cannot now be mentioned.

Such facts cannot fail to tell the story of the kind of blood which flows in the veins of the Associates, and to assure that they came of a race of God-fearing. Bible-loving, religion-respecting, and virtue- valuing ancestors ; such as we shall, not only as of those days, but in all days, be glad we came from, the men and women who made sturdy characters and good habits, an ancestry of the kind to whom this great nation of ours owes more for its solid, law-abiding and law-honoring, good citizenship, than to any other of the emigrant peoples who followed to find homes in the good land our ancestors had subdued for them.

Ralph Earl Prime.

Edward Hagamax Hall, Henry Woodward Sackett,

Committee.

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Origin of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America . 9

Section i. The Insignia of the Order shall be a badge of gold, as follows : i n!i >M

Obverse — Upon a radiated star or, a cross enamelled gules; thereon the effigy of an officer, in Continental uniform, surmounted by that of Captain Miles Standish, habited in morion and breast-plate; both effigies within a chaplet of oak and laurel leaves, all or.

Reverse — Upon a radiated star or, a star of thirteen points enamelled azure; in its centre, the arms of the United States, in relief, within a white circle, inscribed "Steadfast for God and Country," all or.

A gold swivel ring, pendant from a larger gold ring, shall suspend the badge from a ribbon.

The Ribbon of the Order shall be of watered silk, one and three-quarter inches in width, the colors of which, reading from dexter to sinister, shall be azure, argent, sable, argent and gules.

The Rosette, or Button, of the Order, shall be one-half inch in diameter, of watered silk; in its centre, a cross gules, upon a white field; on its edge, or rim, the colors azure, argent, sable, gules, argent and sable.

The Flag of the Order shall be the Flag of the United States of America, as regulated by Act of Congress.

The Standard of the Order shall be a field argent, surmounted by a cross gules; on a canton azure, a constellation of thirteen stars of the first.

The Seal of the Order shall be two and one-half inches in diameter, as follows :

Upon a shield or, a Continental soldier, at attention, habited proper, surrounded by a constellation of thirteen stars azure ; upon the centre of the chief, a ship of the Seventeenth Century, under full sail, proper; above the shield, the dates 1607-1657; beneath the shield, the date 1776; the whole surrounded by an annulet gules, inscribed "The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America"; in exergue, 1896; the edge beaded; the field or.

Sec. 2. The membership Diploma, Insignia, Ribbon and Rosette, or Button, shall only be issued from and by authority of the General Court, under such regulations as it from time to time may prescribe, and may from time to time be changed, but only by the General Court at an annual meeting and by a two-thirds majority of all the votes cast, the vote being taken by Societies, provided the change has been proposed by one Society of the Order, and notice thereof given by it to the Secretary General, and to the Secretary of each other Society of the Order, at least one month before the annual meeting of the General Court. The same notice and vote shall be necessary, to change the Seal or Standard of the Order.

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ARTICLE IX.

AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may only be amended at an annual meeting of the General Court, by a two-thirds majority of all the votes cast, the vote being taken by Societies; provided the amendment has been proposed by one Society of the Order, and notice thereof given by it to the Secretary General, and to the Secretary of each other Society of the Order, at least one month before the annual meeting of the General Court.

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE I.

OFFICERS OF GENERAL COURT.

Section i. The Governor General shall be the official head of the Order, and shall perform such duties as pertain to that office. He shall preside at all meetings of the General Court and of the Council General. He shall appoint all committees, unless otherwise ordered by the General Court or Council General.

Sec. 2. The Deputy Governor General, in the absence of the Governor General, shall perform his duties and exercise his powers. In the absence of the Governor General and Deputy Governor General from a meeting, a chairman pro tem. shall be chosen to preside.

Sec. 3. The Chaplain General shall perform such religious services as may be called for by the General Court or the Council General.

Sec. 4. The Secretary General shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the General Court and the Council General, and shall have charge of the Constitution, By-laws, Seal and General Records of the General Court and Council General. He shall give due notice to each member of the General Court of its meetings, and to the members of the Council General of their meetings. He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Order under the direction of the Governor General, keep a record of all checks countersigned by him, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by the General Court, or by the Council General. All the books, records and papers kept by him, or in his charge officially, shall be the property of the Order. He shall make a report in writing at the annual meeting of the General Court, and at such other times as the General Court or the Council General may direct.

►'SISec. 5. The Treasurer General shall collect and receive all ftmds belonging to the General Court, and deposit the same to the credit of the Order, in such manner as the General Court or Council General may direct. He shall give such bond as may be required by the Council General.

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He shall pay out money only as the General Court or Council General shall order, by check, signed by him and countersigned by the Secretary General. He shall make a full and classified report, in writing, of money received and paid out, at the annual meeting of the General Court, and at such other times as the General Court or Council General may direct. He shall keep full and accurate accounts in books, to be the property of the Order, which shall always be open to the inspection of any officer of the General Court.

Sec. 6. The Attorney General shall be the law adviser of the General Court. He shall have charge of and supervise the proceedings relating to the formation of Societies of the Order.

Sec. 7. The Registrar General shall have the custody of all duplicate apphcations for membership, shall examine the same, approve or disapprove thereof, and advise the Registrar of the Society, from which they come, of such approval or disapproval, within one month after their submission to him, and the reason therefor when disapproved, which approval or disapproval shall be manifested before the admission of an Associate, subject to appeal to the General Court, which appeal shall be submitted to the Genealogist General, for examination and report, by the Registrar of the Society concerned therein. The Registrar General shall give a number in the Order to each Associate, in the order of the notification of the elections. He shall keep a roll of all Associates of the Order, the Society to which each belongs, the residence of each, and his number in the Order. He shall make a report in writing at the annual meeting of the General Coitrt, and at such other times as the General Court or the Council General may direct, and perform such other duties as the General Court or the Council General may require.

Sec. S. The Genealogist General shall examine and report to the Covmcil General upon all appeals from the decision or want of action of the Registrar General, which shall be submitted to him for that purpose, within one month after their submission to him, and shall at the same time advise the Registrar of the Society, from whom he received such appeal, of the result of his examination.

Sec. 9. The Historian General shall have the custody of all documents and papers relating to the genealogy and history of the first colonists, their ancestors and descendants, which may be in the possession of or loaned to the General Court, which shall be subject to the use and control of the General Court or Council General, and shall, when necessary, be subject to the inspection of the Genealogist General. He shall make report in writing, at the annual meeting of the General Court, and at such other times as the General Coxirt or the Council General may direct. He shall perform such other duties as the General Court or the Council Greneral may require.

Sec. 10. The Council General shall exercise the powers of the General Court, when the General Court is not in session. Five of its members shall constitute aquorum of the Council General. Meetings of the Council General may be called by the Governor General, or, at the request of five of its members, must be called by the Secretary General. The Council General may, by rule, order or resolution, provide for its own meetings. The Council General may remove from office any Officer or CotmciUor of the General Court, for any violation of the Constitution or By-Laws of the Order, or for conduct unbecoming a patriot or a good citizen, but only after an opportunity to be heard, and, pending the inquiry, it may suspend the person so charged and delegate his duties to another Associate.

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Sec. II. In case any person, elected as an General Officer or Councillor General, shall fail to file with the Secretary General, vithin one month after notice by mail of his election, an acceptance in writing, the Council General shall appoint an Associate to fill the position until the next annual meeting of the General Court. The Council General shall fill all vacancies in the General Court, until the next annual meeting of the General Court. Any General Officer or Councillor General may resign, by mailing his resignation to the Secretary General.

ARTICLE II.

OFFICERS OF SOCIETIES.

Section i. The Governor shall preside at all meetings of his Society, and of its Council, and perform such duties as usually pertain to a presiding officer, or as the Society or its Council may require. He shaU appoint all committees, unless otherwise ordered by his Society or its Council.

Sec. 2. The Deputy Governor, in the absence of the Governor, shall perform his duties and exercise his powers. In the absence of the Governor and Deputy Governor from a meeting, a chairman pro tem. shall be chosen to preside.

Sec. 3. The Chaplain shall perform such religious services as may be called for by his Society or its Council.

Sec. 4. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of his Society and its Council, and shall have charge of the Charter, By-laws, Certificate of Incorporation. Seal and Records of his Society and its Council. He shall keep a roll of Associates of his Society, and a mailing address book for the post-office address of Associates. He shall give due notice to each Associate of his Society of its meetings, and to the members of the Council of their meetings. He shall keep a book, containing the Constitution and By-laws of the Order and the By-laws of his Society, to be signed by all Associates of his Society. He shall conduct the general correspondence of his Society, under the direction of its Governor, keep a record of all checks countersigned by him, and perform such other duties as may be required of him bj'' his Society or its Council. All the books, records and papers kept by him, or in his charge officially, shall be the property of the Society. He shall make a report in writing at the annual meeting of his Society, and at such other times as the Society or its Council may direct, and a copy of such report and copies of all printed papers shall be sent at once to the Secretary General for the information of the General Court.

Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall collect and receive all funds belonging to his Society, and deposit the same to its credit, in such manner as his Society or its Council may direct. He shall give such bond as may be required by the Council. He shall pay out money only as his Society or its Council shall order by check, signed by him and countersigned by the Secretary. He shall notify all Associates of their election, and collect their fees and dues. He shall notify the Council, and also the Secretary, of all Associates in arrears for six months, also of the failure of a person elected to membership to pay his fee and dues within three months. He shall make a full and classified report, in writing, of money received and paid out, at the annual meeting of his Society, and at such other times as the Society or its Council may direct. He shall keep full and accvu-ate accounts in books, to be the property of the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of any Officer of the Society.

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Sec. 6. The States Attorney shall be the law adviser of his Society, and perform such other duties as the Society or its Council may require.

Sec. 7. The Registrar shall have the custody of all blank applications for membership, and shall issue the same as required or provided by his Council. He shall receive the duplicate applications for membership and examine, approve or disapprove thereof, and certify them in order and report thereon, to the Society or its Council, for approval. Before or after such report, he may require of the applicant for membership correction of his papers or further proofs. Upon the approval by the Society or its Council of any applicant, the Registrar shall endorse upon the duplicate applications the date of the approval, and forward one duplicate to the Registrar General, and retain for the Society the other duplicate, causing the same, if the applicant is elected as an Associate, to be bound into books as the Council may direct. He shall notify the Secretary and Treasurer, and also the Registrar General, of each Associate elected, and of his residence, place of business and post-office address, and of the date of election. He shall retain all such historical information as shall accompany applications for membership, and on request of the Historian General or Historian, shall furnish copies thereof. He shall perform such other duties as his Society or its Council may require. He shall report in writing, at the annual meeting of his Society, and at such other times as the Society or its Council may direct.

Sec. 8. The Genealogist shall examine and report to his Council upon all appeals from the decision or failure to act on the part of the Registrar, which shall be submitted to him, for that pui-pose, by the Council.

Sec. 9. The Historian shall have the custody of all documents and papers relating to the genealogy and history of the first colonists, their ancestors and descendants, which may be in the possession of or loaned to his Society or its Council, which shall be subject to the use and control of the Society or its Council, and which shall, when necessary, be subject to the inspection of the Genealogist. He shall also edit and pubHsh such books, documents and papers as the Society or its Council may direct. He shall act as Necrologist. In case of the death of any member of the General Court, or any past Councillor General, the Historian of the Society of which such person was an Associate shall furnish to the Historian General such necrological information as may be in his possession. He shall make a report in writing, at the annual meeting of the Society, and at such other times as the Society or its Council may direct, and a copy of such report and copies of all printed papers shall be sent at once to the Historian General for the information of the General Court.

Sec. 10. The Council of each Societj^ of the Order shall exercise the powers of the Society, when the Society is not in session. Five of its members shall constitute a quorum of the Council. Meetings of the Council may be called by the Governor of the Society, or, at the request of five of its members, must be called by the Secretary. The Council may, by rule, order or resolution, provide for its own meetings. The Council may remove from office any Officer or Councillor, for an\' violation of the Constitution or By-laws of the Order, or for conduct iinbecoming a patriot, or a good citizen, but only after an opporttmit}^ to be heard, and, pending the inquiry, it may suspend the person so charged and delegate his duties to another Associate.

Sec. 1 1 . Each Society may provide for other Officers, and for a Deputy or Assistant to an Officer of the Society, but no such Officer shall thereby become a member of the General Court, nor of the Council of his Society, but shall have only such other powers and perform such duties as his Society shall provide.

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Sec. 12. In case any person, elected as an Officer or Councillor of a Society, shall fail to file with its Secretary, within one month after notice by mail of his election, an acceptance in writing, the Council shall appoint an Associate to fill the position until the next annual meeting of the Society. The Council shall fill all vacancies in its numbers, vmtil the next annual meeting of the Society. Any Officer or Councillor may resign, by mailing his resignation to the Secretary of his Society.

ARTICLE III.

MEMBERSHIP.

Section i. Every applicant for membership must apply in writing and in duplicate to a Society in the State, District, Territory or Country within whose jurisdiction he resides. If no Society exists therein, the applicant may apply to any Society. The applicant must state his age, residence, occupation, place of business, his post-office address, and such other information as the Society or the General Court may direct, or such as may be required by the Constitution or By-laws of the Order. He must be recommended by two Associates, and the application must be presented to the Council of the Society, and shall be accompanied by such historical information concerning his ancestors as the Society or its Council may request. The application shall be examined as the By-laws of the particular Society shall require, in order to ascertain the qualifications of the applicant, and shall be reported, approved or disapproved, to the Society or its Council for election. Such election must be by ballot, and one negative ballot in every five cast, or five negative ballots in all, shall reject the applicant, and he cannot again apply for membership within one year thereafter, nor to any other Society than that in which rejected, without its consent. Prior to the election of any Associate, one of the duplicates of the application papers shall be forwarded to and approved or disapproved by the Registrar General, subject to appeal to the General Covut. If such appeal be decided against him, he cannot again apply for membership in the Order, within one year thereafter. After the election of an Associate, and payment by him of the initiation fee and one year's dues, and his signing the Constitution, in person or by proxy, he shall then become an Associate. Every Associate shall retain his membership in any Society to which admitted, until such connection is severed by resignation, transfer, suspension, dropping from the rolls or expulsion.

Sec. 2. Any Associate in good standing, not in arrears or otherwise indebted to any Society or to the Order, may resign his membership in the Order, by written notice to the Secretary of any Society in which he is enrolled.

Sec. 3. Any person, an Associate of more than one Society, may resign his membership in any Society, in the same manner and on the same terms as he may resign his membership in the Order.

Sec. 4. Each Society may provide for and regulate the suspension or expvilsion of its Associates, subject to an appeal to the General Court.

ARTICLE IV.

FUNDS.

Section i. The initiation fee shall be five dollars. Each Society shall fix the amount of its annual dues, not exceeding five dollars, payable

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in advance; provided that the dues, paid by an Associate elected within three months before the annual meeting of his Society, shall be in full of annual dues for the current year following such annual meeting. Associates shall pay dues to the several Societies in which they are enrolled. Each Society may provide for resident and non-resident members, and fix the dues for each class of members, its non-resident membership to consist of all Associates residing more than a certain distance, which each Society may determine for itself, from its headquarters. ^;i(SEC. 2. Any resident Associate may commute his annual dues by paying, at any time, a sum equal to ten years' annual dues, and shall thereupon become a life member, and shall thereafter be exempt from the payment of dues to the Society in which he shall have so commuted his dues.

ARTICLE V.

NOTICES.

All notices, required by the Constitution or By-laws of the Order, or the By-Laws of any Society, shall be mailed to the person to be notified, to the address he shall have furnished with his application papers, or afterward to the Secretary of his Society, or to the Secretary General. The number of days' notice, which shall be deemed a due notice, shall be determined, for the General Court or Cotmcil General by resolution, and for any Society, or its Council, by the By-laws of the Society.

ARTICLE VI.

AMENDMENTS.

These By-laws may be amended at any annual meeting of the General Court, by a two-thirds majority of all the votes cast, the vote being taken by Societies

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General Regulations.

(Adopted May 14, 1900.)

I

The General Court and the Council General shall meet whenever called by the Governor General.

II

The roll of the General Court and of the Council General shall be made up from the records of the General Court and the returns of the several Societies of the Order, but the title of any member may be investigated as the General Court may direct.

III

Every officer of the General Court shall orally, if present, and also in writing to be filed with the Secretary General, make pledge to support and maintain the Constitution, By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and to discharge the duties of the office to which he is elected or qualified to the best of his ability.