... Register: 1911; rev. and completed to May 13, 1911.

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 it was due to the cheerfully-given co-operation of Associate Teunis Dimon Huntting, the then Registrar General of the Order, and to his persistent, industrious, painstaking and cheerfully-performed work, in gathering, from the " application papers " and the records in his possession, the data and information which then enabled the committee to perform the work of completing and publishing the Register of 1902.

That Register became a book of reference to very many, and a means of obtaining family history, and of gathering up and preserving a record of the personal public services of the Associates of the Order.

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

in which many have served. The committee sought all possible information of their participation in those struggles. Many 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.

At the annual meeting of the General Court on May 13, 1902, the committee reported to the General Court a mass of manuscript, 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, and it was put forth to the Order and to the public.

The book of that committee laid before the General Court and the Associates of the Order was bound in the first instance to contain mistakes, 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.

In the year 1909 at the Hartford meeting of the General Court of the Order, a new Register was ordered. A report was made at the May meeting in New York in 1910. At the Philadelphia meeting in 191 1 the work was reported and its publication was ordered and a publication committee was appointed and this work, the "Register 191 1," is now presented to the Associates and to the public. For sake of the future we 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 any future Register.

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In editing the Roll of Associates, the committee has found the names of the following Associates who served in th-^ Civil War:

Harry Elihu Atwater,

Henry Baldwin,

George Washington Case,

Edward Payson Cone,

George Eugene Dewey,

William Reed Eastman.

Julius Merrill Foote,

Dexter Newell Force,

Charles King Francis,

David Maxson Greene,

Addison Josiah Hinman,

Charles Alexander Jewell,

Edward Franc Jones,

Frederick Munro Hill Kendrick,

James Lord,

Richard Worsam Meade, Henry Benjamin Meigs, Samuel Emlen Meigs, William Anderson Mitchell, Thomas George Morton, Henry Langdon Potter, Ralph Earl Prime, Thomas Redfield Proctor, Edward Everett Sill, William Mitchell Stetson, Henry Clay Terry, Sherwood Stratton Thompson, Henrj'^ Stewart Turrill, Daniel Frederick Warren, Stewart Lyndon Woodford,

Also, Frederick Dent Grant served as Volunteer Aide-de-camp to his father in the Vicksburg Campaign.

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

George Holcombe Barber, William Edward Fitch, Frederick Dent Grant, John Jay Phelps,

David Banks Plum, Henry Woodward Sackett, William Cary Sanger, Henry Stewart Turrill.

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, Japheth, Abijah, Elihu, Hopestill, Preserved, Jedediah, Israel, Bezaleel ; also among the 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 preface.

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 Hagaman Hall.

George Clinton Batcheller, Theodore Oilman, Clarence Ettienne Leonard,

Committee.

Contents

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and it was determined to accord to all whose applications for membership had been approved, the privilege of participating in the adoption of the constitution and by-laws and such were then denominated Charter Members.

On the evening of the 24th day of April, 1896, at the Hotel Normandie, in the City of New York, a meeting of the Charter Members was held. At that time they were seventy-eight in number. At that meeting the constitution and by-laws of the Order, which had already been approved by the Founders, was presented and read in full, and with an amendment providing for dual membership was adopted, and the organization completed by the election of the officers and councillors of the New York Society of The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America.

The terms of the constitution provided for a Society of the Order in each State and for a General Court of the Order to be composed of The Founders of the Order, the Oificers of the General Court, with representatives of each of the State Societies, consisting of the first eight (since nine) of its officers, and it authorized the New York State Society of the Order to act as the General Court until the General Court should be organized by the representatives of at least three State Societies and meanwhile to issue charters to such State Societies as it should organize. Each member was to be known as an " Associate."

On the 24th day of April, 1896, the Council of the New York Society of the Order granted a charter to nine Associates to organize the New Jersey Society of the Order, and appointed its first meeting to be held at the house of Associate William Armstrong Halsey in Newark, N. J., on the 28th day of April, 1896, at which time and place the New Jersey Society of the Order was organized.

On the 1st day of May, 1896, the Council of the New York Society of the Order granted a charter to nine Associates to organize the Connecticut Society of the Order, and appointed its first meeting to be held at the house of Associate Charles Augustus Jewell, in Hartford, Conn,, on the 9th day of May, 1896, at which time and place the Connecticut Society of the Order was organized.

Three Societies of the Order having thus been organized, the Founders of the Order and the officers of those Societies, entitled to sit in the General Court of the Order, met in the historic Governor's Room, in the City Hall in the City of New York, on the 13th day of May, 1896, the 289th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., and organized the General Court of the Order, and elected its General Officers and Councillors General, and the General Court then became the Supreme Governing body of the Order.

On the 28th day of December, 1896, the Council General granted a charter to eleven Associates (to which number four others were subsequently added) to organize the Pennsylvania Society of the Order and appointed its first meeting to be held in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., on the 14th day of January, 1897, at which time and place the Pennsylvania Society of the Order was organized.

The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America now consist of the General Court of the Order and four State Societies of the Order and numbers in all 450 Associates.

Its membership consists of citizens of the United States, who are descended in the paternal line of either father or mother, from an ancestor who settled within the limits of what became the original thirteen colonies during the first half century, from the first settlement in America, at Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, and whose intermediate ancestors in the same line were loyal to the cause of the American Colonies during the War for their Independence. Pursuant to an amendment, adopted May 13, 1902, it also admits to membership the male descendants of Associates of the Order, thus making the members a new stock for the perpetuation of the Order.

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Constitution of the Order of tiie

Founders and Patriots

of America.

PREAMBLE.

RECOGNIZING Almighty God as guiding our ancestors to this land, to establish, through their descendants, not a colony, but an independent sovereign Christian nation, destined by Him to occupy a commanding place among the nations of the earth and to protect and defend Liberty in all the Western Hemisphere ; and, recognizing that the foundations of the nation were laid, in the perils and hardships of the first half centurj^ by our ancestor settlers of that period, rather than in the years that followed ; and, recognizing that, necessary to the end for which our ancestors came, was a patriot progeny, in the time of the Revolutionary struggle, out of which our country came to be independent and our nation came into being — for ourselves, and those who may associate with us, we have formed an association, founded on Descent from such ancestry and their patriot descendants.

ARTICLE I.

NAME.

The name of this Association is " The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America."

ARTICLE II.

OBJECTS.

The objects of the Order are:

1. To bring together and associate men whose ancestors struggled together for life and liberty, home and happiness, in this land, when it was a new and unknown country, and whose line of descent from them comes through patriots who sustained the colonies in the struggle for independence in the Revolutionary War.

2. To teach reverent regard for the names and history, character and perseverance, deeds and heroism, of the founders of this country and their patriot descendants.

3. To inculcate patriotism in the Associates and their descendants.

4. To discover, collect and preserve records, documents, manuscripts, monuments and history relating to the first colonists, their ancestors and descendants.

5. To commemorate and celebrate events in the history of the colonies and the republic.

6. Other historical and patriotic purposes.

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ARTICLE III.

ORGANIZATION.

The Order shall consist of:

1. A General Court, to be known as " The General Court of the Order of The Founders and Patriots of America."

2. A Society in each State, District or Territory of the United States, and in such foreign States and Countries as the General Court may authorize, each of which, prefixed with the name of the political division

in which located, is to be known as " The Society of the

Order of the Founders and Patriots of America."

ARTICLE IV.

GENERAL COURT.

Section i. The General Court shall consist of the Founders of the Order; also all past General Officers, also all General Officers, Councillors General, and Officers of the several Societies of the Order, during their respective terms of office ; provided, however, that no person shall be a member of the General Court unless he shall be at the time an Associate in good standing in one of the Societies of the Order.

Sec. 2. The Officers of the General Court shall be a Governor General, a Deputy Governor General, a Chaplain General, a Secretary General, a Treasurer General, an Attorney General, a Registrar General, a Genealogist General, and an Historian General, each to hold office for one year, or until his successor is elected and installed. There shall also be nine Councillors General, three of whom shall be elected each year, each Councillor General to hold office for three years, or until his successor is elected and installed. The Officers and Councillors shall constitute the Council General. They shall be elected at the annual meeting, by ballot. No Officer of the General Court shall be elected to the same office for more than two successive terms, except by a unanimous vote.

Sec. 3. The annual meeting of the General Court shall be held on the 13th day of May in each year, or at such other time, as near as may be thereafter, as the Council General may determine. The General Court may hold such other meetings as it may determine by rule, order or resolution, or as may be called by the Governor General. The Governor General shall call meetings on request of nine members of the General Court. The annual meeting of the General Court shall be held in the City of New York except that in any odd-numbered year it may be held elsewhere, provided the Governor General shall fix another place therefor and shall make an order to that effect. (As amended May 14, 1906.)

Sec. 4. Nine members shall constitute a quorum, at all meetings of the General Court.

Sec. 5. In General Court each member thereof shall have one vote, except that, when a vote is taken by Societies, each member shall have one vote, and each Society shall have as many votes as it has enrolled Associates, in good standing, to be cast as a unit, unless any Society shall otherwise direct, and shall so certify to the Secretary General, in which case the vote of such Society shall be divided as nearly as may be equally among the members present from such Society and cast by them severally. One-third of the members, present in person at a meetingy may demand that any vote be taken by Societies, when the vote shall be cast in person. All other votes may be cast in person or by proxy.

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Sec. 6. The General Court shall have and exercise the following powersi:

1. The chief executive, legislative and judicial powers within the Order, and the general regulation of its affairs.

2. To entertain, hear and decide all appeals and complaints by any Society, or by an Associate, and to regulate the cases in which appeals may be taken.

3. To advise concerning any question arising under the Constitution or By-Laws of the Order when requested by any Society or its Council.

4. Upon application of any nine Associates of the Order, residing in any State, District, Territory or Country in which no Society of the Order exists, to constitute them and those whom they may admit, pursuant to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Order, into a Society of the Order for the political division in which they reside, and to fix a time and place for the first meeting, and grant such Society a charter.

5. To issue all diplomas of membership, all insignia and rosettes.

6. To provide, order and direct the form, and on such terms as it shall fix, issue to the Societies of the Order stationery and blank applications for membership, also circulars or pamphlets setting forth the purposes and objects of the Order, and regulate the use thereof.

7. To require from Societies of the Order such reports, returns and statistics of Associates, of funds, and of other information, and the payment of assessments, as it may from time to time order.

8. To revoke or suspend the charter of any Society, for failure to obey the requirements of the Constitution or By-Laws of the Order, or for nonuser of its rights and privileges, and in case of revoking the charter of any Society, to assign its members, or any of them, to other Societies of the Order, according to their preference if asked and expressed, who shall thereupon become members of the Society to which assigned in the same standing as in the Society whose charter shall be revoked. (As amended May 13, 1903.)

Sec. 7. No liability shall be incurred, or an appropriation of money made or authorized, except by a two-thirds majority of votes cast in the General Court, such vote to be cast in person or by proxy, or by a two-thirds majority of votes in "the Council General, but such vote in the Council General must also be approved by at least two Councillors General. (As amended May 14, 1906.)

Sec. 8. The expenses of the General Court shall be provided for by the sale of diplomas, insignia and rosettes, and by pro rata assessments upon each of the Societies according to its respective number of Associates. The General Court or Council General may enforce payment of said assessments, by the revocation or suspension of the charter of any Society refusing or neglecting to pay the same, and such Society shall thereupon be debarred from representation in the General Court, but, upon payment, may be reinstated.

Sec. 9. The headquarters of the Order shall be in the City of New York.

ARTICLE V.

societies of the order.

Section i. Each Society hereafter organized shall hold its membership in the Order by virtue of a charter from the General Court. After the receipt of its charter, the Society shall forthwith adopt a Seal, which shall not be changed, except by a two-thirds majority of the Associates present at an annual meeting. Any Society may be incorporated under

Constitution of tfje 0thtt, the laws of its own State, District, Territory or Country, if a majority of its Associates present at an annual meeting shall elect to do so.

Sec. 2. The Officers of each Society shall be a Governor, a Deputy Governor, a Chaplain, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a States Attorney, a Registrar, a Genealogist and an Historian, each to hold office for one year, or until his successor is elected and installed. There shall also be nine Councillors, each Councillor to hold office for three years, or until his successor is elected and installed, provided, however, that the Society shall divide the Councillors first chosen into three classes, one class to serve one year, one two years, and one three years, or until their successors are elected and installed. The Officers and Councillors shall constitute the Council. They shall be elected at the annual meeting, by ballot. No Officer of any Society shall be elected to the same office for more than two successive terms, except by a unanimous vote.

Sec. 3. Each Society shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place, before the month of May, as its Council shall determine. Each Society may hold such other meetings as the Society or its Council may direct, or as may be called by its Governor.

Sec. 4. Nine Associates shall constitute a quorum, at all meetings of the Society.

Sec. 5. At meetings of the Society, each Associate shall have one vote. Associates may vote by proxy at any meeting, if the Society shall so determine, or the laws of the State, District, Territory or Country so provide.

Sec. 6. Each Society may regulate its own affairs, subject to the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Order.

Sec. 7. Each Society may organize Chapters, to consist of not less than nine Associates, and grant charters thereto ; and may revoke or suspend any such charter, for the failure of any Chapter to obey the requirements of the Constitution or By-Laws of the Order, or for nonuser of its rights and privileges.

Sec. 8. Each Society may provide for the suspension, or dropping from the rolls, after reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard, of any Associate in arrears for dues, after they shall be due and payable for one year, but, upon payment, he may be reinstated by the Council. Any Associate, suspended or dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues, shall not hold office in the Order, or sit in the General Court, during such suspension or unless reinstated.

Sec. 9. No Society of the Order shall have the power to incur any debt or enter into any continuing obligation, except on its own behalf, and not on behalf of the Order, nor on behalf of the General Court. No debts shall be incurred, or money be appropriated, or any action be taken affecting property, without the consent of at least three of the Councillors. No liability shall be incurred, or appropriation made, exceeding fifty dollars, except by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast in the Society or its Council, such vote to be cast in person.

Sec. 10. Each Society shall forthwith determine the location of its headquarters, which shall not thereafter be changed, except by a two-thirds majority of the Associates present at an annual meeting.

ARTICLE VL

FOUNDERS OF THE ORDER.

Those persons, nine in number, who, on the i6th day of March, 1896, subscribed the Certificate of Incorporation of the New York Society, and formed the Order, are hereby recognized as founders of the Order.

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ARTICLE VII.

MEMBERS OF THE ORDER.

Section i. All members of the Order shall be active members of a Society of the Order, except as hereinafter provided, and shall be called "Associates."

Sec. 2. Any man of the age of twenty-one years, of good moral_ character and reputation, and a citizen of the United States, who is lineally descended, in the male line of either parent, from an ancestor who settled in any of the Colonies now included an the United States of America prior to May 13, 1657, and one or all of whose intermediate ancestors, in the same line, who lived in the period of the Revolution, from 1775 to 1783, adhered as patriots to the cause of the Colonies, shall be eligible to membership in the Order, except as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. The male descendants of any Associate, being of good moral character and reputation and citizens of the United States, shall also be eligible to membership, provided that the claims of each such descendant shall be traced anew from the qualifying ancestors from whom the first Associate was eligible. (As amended May 13, 1902.)

Sec. 4. No person shall be admitted an Associate of the Order without previous investigation into and ascertainment of his qualifications for membership. Each Society may provide for the manner of such investigation and ascertainment, and of the mode of election of its Associates, subject to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Order, and may reject any applicant who may not be acceptable to it.

Sec. 5. Any person who shall have obtained membership by intentional misrepresentation or concealment, as to his qualification for membership, or who shall be guilty of any violation of the Constitution or By-Laws of the Order, or who shall be guilty of conduct unbecoming a patriot or a good citizen, after due inquiry and hearing, shall be expelled from membership in the Order. Any person who shall have obtained membership by or through an innocent but material misstatement or non-statement, shall, after due inquiry and hearing, be dropped from membership in the Order.

Any person who shall have obtained membership as the descendant of an Associate of the Order shall, after due mquiry and hearing, be dropped from membership in case it shall appear that the Associate- of the Order from whom he descended was not qualified for membership. (As amended May 13, 1902.)

Sec. 6. Each Associate shall pay an initiation fee and one year's dues, and sign the Constitution and By-Laws of the Order, either in person or by proxy, within three months after notice of election to membership. If he shall fail to comply with these conditions within the time specified, without sufficient reason being given, his election shall be void.

Sec. 7. An Associate of one Society of the Order may be transferred to another Society, upon his written request, under such regulations as the Society of which he is an Associate, and that to which he seeks transfer, may prescribe.

Sec. 8. Membership in two or more Societies, by the same person, may be authorized and regulated by the several Societies. All persons must first become Associates of a Society, if any, in the State, District, Territory or Country within whose jurisdiction they reside, and must retain such membership in their State Society so long as they remain residents of such State, to be eligible to membership in any other State Society. (As amended May 14, 1906.)

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Sec. 9. The General Court may by a three-fourths vote elect to honorary membership such Associates as shall have rendered distinguished service to the country or to the Order. Honorary members shall be exempt from the payment of dues.

ARTICLE VIII.

INSIGNIA, ETC.

Section i. The Insignia of the Order shall be a badge of gold, as follows

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 breastplate; 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 threequarter 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 b}^ 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 necessarv. 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; or the General Court may at any meeting also propose any amendment to the Constitution, and w^hen the same shall have been adopted within one year thereafter by a three-fourths majority of all the votes of all the Associates of the Order, voting thereon in the several societies, this Constitution shall be deemed amended accordingly. The General Court shall by general regulation provide for the taking and certification of the votes on any amendment to the Constitution, and for the promulgation of the result thereof, and of the adoption of any such amendment. (As amended May 13, 1910.)