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Society
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Mayflower Descendants
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FIRST YEAR BOOK
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SOCIETY
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JOHN ALDEN AND PRI5CILLA.
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FFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF
MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS,
ELECTED AT THE FIRST
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
SOCIETY AT THE HOTEL WALDORF,
NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 22, 1895.
Governor.
Henry E. Howland.
Deputy Governor*
Edward Clinton Lee.
Captain.
Joseph Jermain Slocum.
Elder.
Rev. Roderick Terry.
Secretary.
Edward Loudon Norton.
Treasurer.
William Milne Grinnell.
Historian*
Richard Henry Greene*
Surgeon*
James Dougal Bissell* M.D*
Seven Assistants*
To serve until J 897.
Walter Scott AHerton.
Henry Farnam Dimock*
John Taylor Terry*
To serve until J 896.
J. Bayard Backus*
Howland Davis.
Waldo Hutchins.
George Herbert Warren*
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COMMITTEES.
Committee on Membership*
Rowland Davis, Chairman,
Rev. Roderick Terry.
Pelharn Winslow Warren.
Francis Olcott Allen.
William Milne Grinnell.
Committee on Publication.
J. Bayard Backus, Chairman.
Mrs. Edward Loudon Norton.
Miss Susan Taber Martin.
William Milne Grinnell.
James Dougal Bissell.
Committee on Finance.
Walter Scott Alierton, Chairman.
Mrs. Russell Sage.
Miss Rosalie Bacon.
Augustus Schell Hutchins.
James Dougal Bissell.
Committee on Entertainment*
John Taylor Terry, Chairman.
Mrs. Charles Tracy Barney.
Mrs. Daniel M. Stimson.
J. Bayard Backus.
Edward Loudon Norton*
Committee on Exercises*
George Herbert Warren, Chairman*
Walter Scott Allerton*
William Henry Doty*
Edward Bruce Hill*
Chandler Robbins*
Committee on Room and Property*
Waldo Hutchins* Chairman*
Mrs, Alanson Hartpence*
Mrs. Edward Hunter Landon.
Henry Colvin Brewster*
Edgar Cotrell Leonard*
Committee on Genealo^*
Henry Farnam Dimock* Chairman*
Mrs, William Dntmmond Page*
Miss Helen Melinda Eisher*
Richard Henry Greene*
Henry Raymond Howland*
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nIST OF PASSENGERS WHO
CAME TO PLYMOUTH IN
THE " MAYFLOWER " ON HER
FIRST TRIP IN J 620.
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\ JOHN CARVER, Deacon of Church in
Holland, First Governor; elected on the
Mayflower; re-elected Man 22, J62J ;
d. Apr* 6f \62\.
2 KATHARINE, his wife, some think sister
of Robinson; d* May, 1621.
3 JOHN HOWLAND, b. *592, not a son-
in-law of Governor Carver, unless a
widower; m* \62\ the orphan daughter
of John Tilley ; d* Feb* 23, 1673, aet. 80*
4 JASPER MORE, a boy, d* Dec* 6, *620*
5 DESIRE MINTER, a maid, returned to
England and d. there*
6 ROGER WILDER, servant, unm*; d* a few
days after landing.
7 WILLIAM LATHAM, a boy, went to Eng-
land about f 640, thence to Bahamas and
d. there ; some think Robert was his son*
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WILLIAM BRADFORD, b* 1588 ; feapt, Man
J 9, J 590 ; he was of Robinson's church,
Scrooby and Holland ; elected Governor
1621, and often tin til his death May 9,
1657, aet about 69,
DOROTHY MAY, his wife, m* Nov. 30,
1613 ; drowned off Cape Cod Dec* 7, 1 620 ;
first recorded death in New England*
EDWARD WINSLOW, b* Oct. 19, 1595 ;
elected Governor 1633, '36, and '44; died
at sea near Hispaniola, May 8, 1 655,
while Cromwell's commissioner to the W.
Indies.
ELIZABETH BARKER, his wife, m. at Ley-
den, May \6, 1618 ; d. Mar. 24, \62U
GEORGE SOULE, in service ; taxed after
J 633 ; m. Mary Becket, who d. 1 611 ; he
d* 1 680*
ELIAS STORY, in service; d. unm. first
winter.
ELLEN MOORE, m service; d. unm. first
winter.
WILLIAM BREWSTER, b* 1564 at Scrooby ;
ruling Elder at Ley den and Plymouth, till
his death Apr* JO— 16, 1644.
MARY, his wife, d. at Plymouth, before 1627.
LUQIETIA, wife of their son Jonathan. He
came later.
.LOVE, son, m. Sarah Collin, 1634; d. soon
after Oct., 1650*
WRESTLING, youngest son, d. unm. before
his father.
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WILLIAM, son of Jonathan and Lucretia;
b. at Leyden.
ISAAC ALLERTON, chosen Deputy Gover-
nor 1 62J ; removed to New Haven, Conn.;
6.1659.
MARY NORRIS, m» Nov. 4, I6H ; d. Feb.
25, S62I.
BARTHOLOMEW, their son, b. Holland,
J6J2, returned to England and d. there
REMEMBER, their daughter, m, Moses
Maverick; d. after \ 652.
MARY, daughter, b. i6l6; m. Thos. Cush-
man; d. J 699; the last survivor.
JOHN HOOKE, servant, d. soon after arrival.
MYLES STANDISH, b. about 1586 ; chosen
Captain Feb., \ 621. He was at Ley den,
but not a member of the church ; often
assistant; d. Oct. 3, 1656.
ROSE, his wife, d. Jan. 29, 162 J. (His second
wife was Barbara Standish, who came on
the "Ann," J625.)
JOHN ALDEN, not of Leyden church, but
hired at Southampton ; signed u Compact n
and remained; was the last survivor of
the signers; d. Sept. J 2, \ 687, aged be-
tween 84 and 89.
SAMUEL FULLER, the first physician, dea-
con at Leyden; his wife Bridget came
later with a young child ; d. \ 633.
WILLIAM BUTTEN, servant, d. Nov. 6,
\ 620 ; the only passenger who died on the
voyage.
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, was deacon at
Leyden; d.Jan. 8, \ 62 J.
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, his wife, died the first winter.
SOLOMON POWER, servant; d. Dec. 24,
J 620,
JOHN LANGEMORE, servant; d. first
winter*
WILLIAM MULLINS, d. Feb. 2J, J62J.
. his wife, died about same time,
JOSEPH MULLINS, their son ; d, first winter.
PRISOLLA MULLINS, their daughter; m.
J 623 John Alden; d. after 1650.
ROBERT CARTER, servant ; d, first winter.
WILLIAM WHITE, m.Leyden, Feb- *, J6J2;
d,Fcb.2t, i62U
43 2 SUSANNA, his wife ; sister of Samuel Fuller ;
mother of Peregrine, the first child b, in
New England, Provincetown Harbor,
Nov,, \ 620; also the first bride; m. May
f 2, f 62*, Gov. Winslow ; d, J 680.
44 3 RESOLVED WHITE, their son; b. I6i5;
last male survivor but one; d. after 1 680,
45 4 WILLIAM HOLBECK, servant; d, first
winter.
46 5 EDWARD THOMPSON, servant; d, Dec
4, after leaving Cape Cod and before
reaching Plymouth.
47 \2 i RICHARD WARREN, not of Robinson's
church, but from Ixmdon; left his wife
Elizabeth (Jouatt) Marsh, who came in
the " Ann n\ d. *628.
48 U \ STEPHEN HOPKINS, also from London,
not of Ley den church; d. \ 644,
49 2 ELIZABETH, his second wife; d. between
J640and*644.
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50 3 GILES, child by forme* marriage; d* about
i 690.
5 1 4 CONSTANCE, also by former marriage; m*
Nicholas Snow ; <L Oct*, 1677*
52 5 DAMARIS, their daughter; m* J646 Jacob
Cooke; d* between \666 and \669.
53 6 OCEANUS, their son; born on the voyage
and d. i621.
54 40 7 EDWARD DOTY, hired by Hopkins; not of
Leyden church; had family; d* Aug* 23,
i655.
55 4 i 8 EDWARD LEISTER, hired by Hopkins ; not
of Leyden Church ; went to Virginia*
56 \5 \ EDWARD TILLEY, perhaps a brother of
John ; d* first winter*
57 2 ANN, his wife, d* first winter*
55 3 HENRY SAMPSON, a nephew or cousin;
m. Ann Piummer J 636; d* \ 634*
59 4 HUMILITY COOPER, a niece or cousin;
she returned to ELngland*
60 1 6 i JOHN TILLEY, d* the first winter before
Apr* 21, 162 U
61 2 BRIDGET VAN DE VELDE, his wife,
probably of Amsterdam, Holland; d* be-
fore Apr. 21st*
62 3 ELIZABETH, their daughter, b* \ 607; m.
John Howland, J62* ; d* Dec* 2*, *637,
aet. 80*
63 M \ FRANCIS COOK; left hh wife Esther* who
• followed on the * Ann" with three more
children* She was a native of the Neth-
erlands* He d* April 7, \ 663*
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JOHN COOK, their son; m. Sarah Warren.
He was the last male survivor ; did not
d. till J694.
THOMAS ROGERS ; the test of his children
came afterwards; d* early in J 62 J.
JOSEPH ROGERS, his son, d. Dec 27, J 660,
THOMAS TINKER, d. first winter.
, his wife, cL first winter.
, their son, d. first winter.
JOHN RIDGDALE, or RIGDALE, d. before
Apr., 1 62 J.
ALICE, his wife, d. first winter.
EDWARD FULLER, Brother of Samuel, d.
early in J62J.
ANN, his wife, d. early in i62l.
SAMUEL, their son, lived with his uncle
\62\\ m. Jane Lothrop; d. Oct. 3 J,
*683.
JOHN TURNER, left a daughter, who is
said to have come later.
,son; d. abt. same time as father
the first winter.
-, son ; d. abt. the same time as the
father the first winter.
FRANCIS EATON, had a second and third
wife before \ 627, and children by each; d.
J633.
SARAH, his wife (they were a young couple) ;
she d. between J 624 and f 627.
SAMUEL, their son, an infant; m. Martha
Biilington \66\ ; d. abt. J684.
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8J 24 \ JAMES CHILTON, left one daughter in
England, who m* and came later ; never
landed; d* Dec* 8, \ 620, Provincetown
Harbor*
82 2 ♦ his wife, ct* soon after landing*
83 3 MARY, their daughter, m. John Winslow,
brother of Edward ; d* 1679*
84 25 J JOHN CRACKSTON, or CROXTON, d*
the first part of March, X 62 J*
85 2 JOHN CRACKSTON, his son, d* J628*
86 26 \ JOHN BILLINGTON, was hanged, J630, for
murder of Jno* Newcomen*
87 2 ELEANOR, his wife, m. again, J 638, Gregory
Armstrong; d* 1650*
88 3 JOHN, their son, d* after i 626, but before his
father*
89 4 FRANCIS, another son, m*, J 634, Christian
Penn, widow of Francis Eaton; d. after
J65G*
90 27 i MOSES FLETCHER, m* Leyden, !6*3, Sarah,
widow of ¥m, Dinghy ; d* within four
months after arriving*
9\ 28 i JOHN GOODMAN, d* before March, J62J,
according to Prince*
92 29 i DEGORY PRIEST, m. at Leyden, Sarah
Vincent, sister of Isaac Alierton; she m*
and came with her second husband on the
"Ann*" He d* January t, 162L
93 30 i THOMAS WILLIAMS* a single man, d* soon
after landing*
94 3J i GILBERT WINSLOW, bapt* 29 Oct*, 1600,
was b* the Sunday preceding his baptism;
a brother of Gov. Winslow ; returned to
England abt* J 626; d* J 650*
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95 32 i EDWARD MARGESON, single man, d*
early \62\.
96 33 I PETER BROWN, single man, afterwards
m* twice ; d* \ 633.
97 34 \ RICHARD BRITTERIGE, i. Dec 2J,
J 620; the first death after landing*
9Z 36 t RICHARD CLARKE, tinm, d* soon after
landing*
99 37 J RICHARD GARDINER, became a manner
and left the colony after a few years;
probably died in England*
J00 38 i JOHNALLERTON^a^sailoronthe^May-
f lower/' who decided to join the colony ;
signed the u Compact" but d* before the
vessel set sail to return*
JO* 39 i THOMAS ENGLISH* a sailor who was
hired to remain with the Pilgrims ; had
no family ; d* in the spring of \62\.
i 02 i ELY, a sailor hired for a year, at its
conclusion returned to Europe ; was not
a passenger or signer*
J03 i WILLL\M TREVORE, or TREVOUR, a
sailor ; was also hired and remained for
a year, then returned. He was here
"later, perhaps more than once, but was
neither passenger nor signer*
The "Mayflower n started with ninety-eight passengers ;
one was born on the voyage, and four joined them from
the ship* Forty-one men signed the "Compact*" There
were twelve other men, twenty-two women, twenty boys,
and eight girls in the company ; seventy-three males and
thirty females. In December* six died ; in January, eight ;
in February, seventeen ; in March, thirteen, making forty-
four.
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pplSSlHE Compact which was signed in the
MF&M cabin of the " Mayflower, November
v {W$'M H (°* ^f November 22 (n- s-)> 1620,
"^zMkM has been called the corner-stone of
the civil and religious liberties of the
United States*
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COMPACT SIGNED IN THE CABIN OF
THE "MAYFLOWER"
N y* Name of God, Amen. — We whose
names are under-writ en, the loyall
subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord
King James, by y6 grace of God of
Great Britaine, France & Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, fee.
Haveing under- taken for y* glorie of God, and
advancemente of yc Christian faith, and honour of
our King & Countrie, a voyage to plant ye first
colonic in yc northerne parts of Virginia, doe by
these presents solemnly & mutually in ye presence
of God and one of another, covenant, & combine
our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for
our better oraering and preservation, & furtherance
of ye ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to en-
acte, constitute and frame such just & equall
lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions & offices
from time to time, as shall be thought most meete
& convenient for y* generall good of ye Colonie ;
unto which we promise all due submission and
obedience.
In witness whereof we have hereunder sub-
scribed our names at Cape Codd ye \\ of Novem-
ber, in y* year of y6 raigne of our soveraigne Lord
is
King James of England, France & Ireland yc eigh-
teenth, and of Scotland ye fifty-fourth, An0 Dom*
1 620.
U John Carver,
3. Edward Winslow,
5. Isaac Allerton,
7. John Alden,
9. Christopher Martin,
It* Wiffiam White,
13. John Rowland,
15. Edward Tilley,
17. Francis Cook,
19. Thomas Tinker,
21. Edward Fuller,
23. Francis Eaton,
25. John Crackston,
27. Moses Fletcher,
29. Degory Priest,
31. Gilbert Winslow,
33. Peter Brown,
35. George Soule,
37. Richard Gardiner,
39. Thomas English,
2. William Bradford,
4. William Brewster,
6. Myles Standish,
8. Samuel Fuller,
10. William Mullins,
12. Richard Warren,
14. Stephen Hopkins,
16. John Tilley,
18. Thomas Rogers,
20. John Ridgdale,
22. John Turner,
24. James Chilton,
26. John Billington, --
28. John Goodman,
30. Thomas Williams,
32. Edmund Margeson,
34. Richard Britterige,
36. Richard Clarke,
38. John Allerton,
40. Edward Doty,
41. Edward Leister.
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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
THE SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER
DESCENDANTS.
whose names are hereunto sub-
scribed, Richard PL Greene, Edward
Norton, William M. Grinnell, J.
Bayard Backus, and Joseph J. Slo-
cum, all of the City of New York ;
Edward C. Lee, of the City of Philadelphia, in the
State of Pennsylvania ; and Walter S. Allerton, of
the City of Mount Vernon, New York, do here-
by certify, That we have associated ourselves to-
gether, and have formed a society in accordance
with an act of the legislature of the State of New
York, entitled "An Act relating to membership
corporations," passed May 8, 1895;
That the corporate name of the said Society shall
be the " Society of Mayflower Descendants ; **
That the objects of the Society are social, patri-
otic, and historical, and the Society is formed by
lineal descendants of the passengers on the ship
44 Mayflower " on her first voyage to New England,
to preserve the memory of that band of Pilgrims,
and to collect and preserve their records, their his-
tory, and all facts relating to them, their ancestors,
and their posterity ;
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That the principal office of the Society shall
be in the City of New York, and that its opera-
tions are to be principally conducted in the several
States and Territories of the United States ;
That its annual meetings are to be held on the
twenty-second day of November in each year ;
That the number of the managers or directors
of the Society shall be fifteen, and those who shall
manage the affairs of the Society for the first year
are:
Henry E. Howland,of New York City, New York,
Edward G Lee, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph J. Slocum, of New York City, New York.
Roderick Terry, D.D., of New York City, New
York. ^_
Edward L» Norton, of New York City, New York.
William Milne Grinnell, of New York City, New
York.
Richard H. Greene, of New York City, New York.
J. Dougal Bissell, ED., of New York City, New
York.
J. Bayard Backus, of New York City, New York.
John T. Terry, of New York City, New York.
Henry F. Dimock, of New York City, New
York.
Waldo Hutchins, of New York City, New York.
Walter S. Allerton, of Mount Vemon, New York.
George H. Warren, of Yonkers, New York.
Howland Davis, of New York City, New York.
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In witness whereof we have hereunto, and to
the duplicate hereof, subscribed our names and set
our seals, this fifth day of December, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five.
Richard Henry Greene.
Edward L. Norton.
William Milne Grinnell.
J. Bayard Backus.
J. Jermain Sloctim.
Edward Clinton Lee.
Walter S. Alierton.
Seal.]
Seal.]
Seal.]
"Seal.]
Seal.]
Seal.]
Seal.]
State of New York,
City and County of New York, ss.
On this fifth day of December, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, before me personally came Richard
H. Greene, Edward L. Norton, William M. Grin-
nell, J. Bayard Backus, Joseph J. Slocum, and
Walter S. Alierton, to me known to be the indi-
viduals described in and who executed the fore-
going certificate, and they thereupon severally
duly acknowledged to me that they had executed
the same for the purposes therein stated.
[Notarial Seal.]
Geo. F. Bentley,
Notary Public,
New York County.
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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Philadelphia, ss.
On this seventh day of December, eighteen
hundred and ninety-five, before me personally
came Edward G Lee, to me personally known to
be one of the individuals described in and who
executed the foregoing certificate, and he there-
upon duly acknowledged to me that he had exe-
cuted the same for the purposes therein stated*
F. H. MacMorris,
[Notarial Seal.] Notary Public.
(Prothonotary's certificate attached.)
I hereby approve of the incorporation of The
Society of Mayflower Descendants, and consent
that the within certificate be filed.
New York, December 13, 1895.
George P. Andrews,
J. S. C.
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CONSTITUTION.
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PREAMBLE.
HEREAS, our ancestors, passengers
on the " Mayflower/' landed in
December 1620 on Plymouth Rock,
Massachusetts, and
Whereas, They came to settle in
a new land and to found a new home and govern-
ment, for the benefit of themselves and their pos-
terity, and
Whereas, After struggles and hardships, which
in the first year after their landing carried off one-
half of their number and necessitated years of con-
tinued bravery and fortitude against innumerable
trials of the severest kind, and
Whereas, Their acts and example have been
instrumental in the establishment of Gvil and Re-
ligious Liberty throughout this land,
Therefore, This Society is formed by lineal de-
scendants of that band of Pilgrims, to preserve their
memory, their records, their history, and all facts
relating to them, their ancestors and their posterity.
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ARTICLE L
NAME*
name of this Society shall be the
Society of Mayflower Descendants."
ARTICLE IL
MEMBERSHIP*
Every lineal descendant, over eighteen years of
age, of any passenger of the voyage of the " May-
flower," which terminated at Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, December 1620, including all signers of
" The Compact," shall be eligible to membership.
They must be* proposed, seconded and elected.
They shall pay the initiation fee and dues and
comply with the conditions in the Constitution and
the By-Laws.
ARTICLE EEL
OFFICERS AND BOARD OF ASSISTANTS.
Sec. I. — The officers of this Society shall be a
Governor, Deputy Governor, Captain, Eider, Sec-
retary, Treasurer, Historian, Surgeon, all of whom
shall be members of the Board of Assistants.
They shall be elected by a plurality vote at the
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Annual Meeting of the Society, or as soon there-
after as possible. They shall serve for the term
of one year or until their successors are duly
chosen and qualified.
Sec. 2. — There shall be seven assistants, whose
term of office shall be two years ; four of whom
shall be elected, in each even year and three in
each odd year, except that seven shall be elected
in J 895, on the adoption of this Constitution, the
term of four to expire in 1896 and of three in 1897,
as decided by lot, immediately after their election.
Sec 3. — The Board of Assistants shall be com-
posed of the officers of the Society and the seven
assistants. This Board shall appoint all commit-
tees provided for in the By-Laws.
Sec. 4. — The duties, powers and privileges of
the Officers and Board of Assistants of the Society
shall be regulated by the By-Laws, so long as they
are consistent with this Constitution.
Sec. 5. — V acancies occasioned by death or resig-
nation may be filled by the Board of Assistants for
the unexpired term.
ARTICLE IV,
TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP.
Sec. U — Any member whose annual dues re-
main unpaid for a period of one year shall be
dropped from the rolls.
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Sec* 2. — The Board of Assistants may, on a
two-thirds vote, drop any member shown to be
prejudicial to the Society,
ARTICLE V.
MEETINGS.
Sec. U — The Annual Meeting shall be held in
the City of New York on the twenty-second of
November in each year, at the time and place
fixed by the Board of Assistants.
Sec. 2. — All other meetings of the Society shall
be held at &uch times and places as may be decided
upon by the Board of Assistants, but this section
snail not be construed as prohibiting the Governor,
or such a specified number of members as may be
determined by the By-Laws, from calling special
meetings.
Sec. 3. — The number of members which shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business
at any meeting of the Society, and all other neces-
sary details not herein provided for, shall be regu-
lated by the By-Laws.
Sec. 4. — Every action taken by the Society at
any regular or special meeting shall be binding
upon all of its members, provided such meeting
shall have been called and notice thereof givzn in
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution
and the By-Laws.
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ARTICLE VL
STATE SOCIETIES.
Sec 1. — This Society may at any time author-
ize the formation of a Society of Mayflower De-
scendants in each State and Territory of the United
States, and in the District of Columbia, and may
direct the organization of each such society under
terms and conditions to be hereafter determined*
Sec. 2. — All such State Societies shall be subject
to the same eligibility clause as herein provided
and shall make such reports and pay such dues to
this Society as this Society shall determine from
time to time.
Sec. 3. — In the event of the formation of any
State Society, this Society shall then be called
" The General Society of Mayflower Descendants,"
and its headquarters shall be in the City of New
York, N. Y., but it may hereafter hold such meet-
ings as may become necessary or desirable outside
the City or State of New York.
ARTICLE Vn.
BY-LAWS.
The Society shall have power and authority to
ordain, establish, alter and repeal By-Laws, Rules
and Regulations for its government.
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ARTICLE Vm
SEAL.
The Seal of the Society shall contain a repre-
sentation of a sailing vessel of the seventeenth
century, and around it the name of the Society,
and the words "Plymouth, 1620/' and "New
York, J 894."
ARTICLE IX.
CERTIFICATE, INSIGNIA, ETC
There shall be a certificate, insignia, rosette and
flag, to be selected and approved by the Board of
Assistants.
ARTICLE X.
AMENDMENTS.
Any proposed amendment to this Constitution
must be presented in writing at a stated or special
meeting of the Society, it shall thereupon be read
and filed with the Secretary. The Secretary shall
send out with the notice of the regular or special
meeting at which such proposed amendment or
amendments are to be acted on, a copy of all such
proposed amendments. A two-thirds vote of all
the members present shall be required for the
adoption of any amendment.
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BY-LAWS.
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ARTICLE L
MFMBERSIilP*
h — Nominations for membership
shall be made in writing to the Sec-
retary by a member of the Society
and shall be seconded by another
member, both of whom shall vouch
for the candidate.
Sec. 2. — All nominations shall be favorably
reported by the Membership Committee before
application blanks shall be issued.
Sec. 3. — The candidate may then file papers
showing direct descent from a Mayflower Pilgrim,
and with the consent of the Board of Assistants,
members may file additional papers for each such
ancestor, all of which shall be sworn to, and shall
include references and authorities given in detail.
Sec. 4. — All application papers shall be exam-
ined by the Historian and, after the pedigree is
approved, it shall be referred to the Board of
Assistants, who shall vote upon the same by
secret ballot.
Sec. 5.— Three negative votes shall reject any
candidate, and no candidate shall be declared
elected unless such candidate shall receive a
majority of the votes of the whole Board.
Sec 6. — Every election shall be void unless it
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shall be followed within sixty days after receipt of
notice by payment of the entrance fee and dues for
the current yean
Sec* 7* — No person who has been rejected, or
whose name has been withdrawn, shall be acted
upon within a period of one year*
Sec* 8. — Resignations shall be presented to the
Secretary in writing, and, if all indebtedness has
been liquidated, shall take effect at once*
ARTICLE H.
MEETINGS*
Sec* 1. — The Annual Meeting shall be held m
the City of New York, on the twenty-second day
of November, the anniversary of the signing of
"The Compact" on the "Mayflower," except
only when that date shall fall on a Sunday or
legal holiday, when the Annual Meeting shall be
held on the day following, the hour and place to
be determined by the Board of Assistants.
Sec. 2. — A regular semi-annual meeting of the
Society shall be held on the twenty-second day of
May in each year, or on the day following when
that date shall fall on Sunday or a legal holiday.
Sec. 3. — Special meetings of the Society may
be held at any specified time and place, at the call
of the Governor, or upon the written request of
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twenty-five members. The object of such special
meeting must be stated in the notice.
Sec. 4. — The Board of Assistants shall hold a
regular meeting on the first Wednesday of each
month, except during the months of June, July
and August, at such hours and places as they may
determine. Special meetings of the Board of As-
sistants may be called by the Governor, or upon
the written request of three of its members. Notice
of such special meetings must be given as provided
for regular meetings, and such notice must state
the object of the special meeting,
. Sec. 5. — Three days' notice in writing shall be
given of all meetings of the Board of Assistants
and seven days' notice of all meetings of the So-
ciety. Such notice shall be mailed to the addresses
of the several members as they appear on the books
of the Society.
Sec. 6. — At all regular or special meetings of the
Society twenty-five members shall constitute a
quorttm for the transaction of business. At all
meetings of the Board of Assistants a majority of
the members shall constitute a quorum.
Sec. 7. — The order of business at all stated
meetings of the Society shall be :
1st. Calling the Roll
2d. Reading of minutes of previous stated and
intervening special meetings.
3d. Communications.
4th. Nomination and election of officers.
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5th. Reports of officers.
6th. Reports of committees.
7th. Deferred Business.
8th> New Business.
9th. Closing Exercises.
10th. Adjournment.
ARTICLE m.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Sec. 1 . — The Board of Assistants shall at their
regular meeting in September appoint a nominat-
ing committee of five members of the Society,
which committee shall name candidates for the
offices to be filled at the annual meeting of the
Society.
The ticket named by the nominating committee
shall be printed and mailed by the Secretary to
each member of the Society at least two weeks
before the annual meeting.
Any member of the Society may also be placed
in nomination for any office by five members of
the Society, but all such nominations must be
communicated to the Secretary by a notice in writ-
ing signed by the members making the nomination
at least one week before the annual meeting.
Sec. 2. — A vacancy in any office shall be filled
by the Board of Assistants for the unexpired por-
tion of the term.
Sec* 3. — Elections shall be by secret ballot, a
plurality vote of members present shall determine
the choice.
Sec* 4* — The persons elected shall enter upon
the offices immediately after the meeting at which
they were chosen, and hold the same until the
next Annual Meeting or until, the election and
qualification of their successors*
Sec* 5* — Cumulative voting shall not be per-
mitted at any election*
ARTICLE IV,
DUTIES OF OFFICERS*
Sec* 1. — It shall be the duty of the Governor to
preside at all meetings of the Society and the Board
of Assistants* and perform such other duties as
pertain to the chief officer of an organization.
Sec* 2* — It shall be the duty of the Deputy Gov-
ernor to exercise all the functions of the office of
Governor during the absence or disability of the
Governor*
Sec. 3. — The Captain shall carry out all orders
of the Governor or the Society, ana act as Marshal
at parades and on occasions of ceremony.
Sec. 4* — It shall be the duty of the Elder to offi-
ciate when called upon at any meeting of the So-
ciety. He shall have been ordained as an elder,
bishop, minister, or deacon of a Christian church*
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Sec. 5. — It shall be the duty of the Secretary to
record the proceedings of the Society and of the
Board, and to keep complete lists of all the mem-
bers ; to notify members of their election, and to
notify members of the Society and the Board of
Assistants of all meetings to be held; to make
whatever notices and communications may be
required by order of the Society or of the Gov-
ernor, and in general to perform all duties usually
appertaining to such office.
He shall be the Keeper of the Seal of the
Society, and custodian of all blank application
papers.
Sec. 6. — It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
take charge of all funds belonging to the Society :
to keep suitable books of account; to charge, col-
lect and receive all fees and dues and all other
moneys payable to the Society ; to make all neces-
sary disbursements upon approval of the Finance
Committee ; to report the condition of the treasury
at all stated meetings of the Board of Assist-
ants.
He shall have charge of all the certificates,
insignia and rosettes of the Society, and dispose of
the same to the members at the prices set by the
Board of Assistants.
Sec. 7. — The Historian shall examine and report
upon all application papers of members. He shall
keep a detailed record of all celebrations of the
Society, and file all documents, papers and speeches.
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He shall keep a record of all certificates signed by
him, and do any other work assigned him by the
Board of Assistants*
Sec, 8. — The Surgeon shall have been duly
admitted to the practice of medicine* He shall be
under the orders of the Governor and Board of
Assistants*
ARTICLE V.
BOARD AND STANDING COMMITTEES.
Sec* I* — The Board of Assistants shall have
§eneral charge and direction of the affairs of the
ociety* They shall fill vacancies among the offi-
cers for the balance of the term* They shall appoint
the following Standing Committees :
Membership* Publication* Finance, Entertain-
ment* Exercises* Room and Property* and Gene-
alogy. One of the Assistants shall be Chairman of
each Standing Committee* and the additional mem-
bers may be selected from the membership at large*
They shall fill all vacancies occurring in commit-
tees* All committees shall make regular reports
through their Chairman to each regular meeting of
the Board of Assistants* The standing committees
shall each consist of not less than five members as
the Board of Assistants may determine. New
standing committees must be appointed by the
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Board of Assistants after each annual meet-
ing.
Sec* 2. — The Membership Committee shall meet
once in each month at a time and place designated
by the Chairman* Special meetings may also be
called whenever papers or business shall require
action* It sliall receive and consider, in executive
session, all nominations for membership, prelimi-
nary applications and communications relating
thereto, and report their conclusions to the Board
of Assistants.
Sec. 3. — The Standing Committees shall receive
and act upon all matters pertaining to the business
of the Society, usually comprehended in the work
of such committees.
Sec. 4. — Special Committees shall attend to the
work to which they were assigned by their
appointment.
ARTICLE VL
ENTRANCE FEES AND DUES.
All members shall within sixty days after being
notified of their election pay to the Treasurer an
entrance fee of Ten dollars, and the dues for the
current year. The annual dues shall be Three
dollars payable on the First day of January in each
year.
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ARTICLE VE
AMENDMENTS OR ALTERATIONS OF THE
BY-LAWS-
Amendments, alterations and additions to these
By-Laws shall be made in the same manner as
amendments and changes of the Constitution*
Any section of these By-Laws may be suspended
for a special purpose at any time, by a unanimous
vote of the members present at a meeting of the
Society-
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^^fei|S T the Annual Meeting in November the
^ J^ImJ Society named a committee of three to
K^i^l raise the funds necessary to place a
memorial window in the new First
Church at Plymouth, Massachusetts,
now in process of erection. This window is to
be given in the name of the Society* The com-
mittee is given full power in the selection of the
design ana other details.
The committee consists of the following mem-
bers of the Society :
John Taylor Terry, Chairman.
Henry E. Howland.
William Milne Grinnell.
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ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE
SUPPER HELD AFTER THE
FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE SOCIETY, AT THE
HOTEL WALDORF, NEW YORK CITY,
NOVEMBER 22d, 1895, HON. HENRY E.
HOWLAND, THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF
THE SOCIETY, PRESIDING.
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ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVER-
NOR HENRY E. HOWLAND.
^fgt^ADIES AND GENTLEMEN : After
a lapse of two hundred and seventy-
five years, you are welcomed to the
first reunion of people of the May-
flower stock, to celebrate, on soil remote
from that on which they landed, and under con-
ditions that present the widest possible contrast
to those which confronted them, the signing of
the famous Compact which was the origin, and
has become the model of the Government under
which we live*
As I look at you, I agree with the minstrel who,
when the curtain rings up, exclaims to the middle-
man, " I am glad to see so many of our best people
here this evening." And, considering the lapse of
time and the chances and changes of the centuries,
the remarks of the little girl are not out of place :
44 Papa, you were born in Berlin, were you not ? "
— " Yes, my dear." — " And where was Mamma
born ? " — " In Dresden, my child."—" And where
was I born ? " — " In Hanover, my dear." — " Isn't
it funny how we three people got together 1 "
But there is one incident on the voyage of the
" Mayflower " which makes it still more strange ;
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for it is inscribed in Bradford's " History of the
Plymouth Colony/' that " as they lay at hull in a
mighty storm, a lusty young man called John
Howland, coming upon some occasion above the
gratings, was, with a seele of the ship, thrown
into the sea; but it pleased God that he caught
hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard
and ran out at length, yet he held his hold, though
he was sundry fathoms under water, till he was
hauled by the same rope to the brime of the water,
and then with a boat-hook and other means got
into the ship again, and his life saved/' Had it
been otherwise, and that boat-hook hadn't got a
hold on good honest English cloth, with no shoddy
in it, the honor of presiding over your delibera-
tions this evening would have been assigned to
some one else.
The descent from this company is our patent of
nobility. We none of us excite the public interest
that attaches to the young descendant of John
Churchill and Sarah Jennings, with his acquisi-
tions inherited and acquired ; but our title is older
than his, for, at the time of the great enterprise of
our forefathers, Shakespeare had just passed away;
Cromwell was but twenty-one; Namur, Ramil-
lies, Malplaquet, and Blenheim were not to be
fought until one hundred years later ; and many
a proud English title had yet to be created, to dis-
tinguish some obscure soldier or royal favorite.
The soldiers of William the Conqueror had no
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such claim upon the gratitude of the world for
what they did, as this devoted and obscure body
of men, for no such blessings flowed from their
conquest ; yet they became, through the favor of
their king, the foundation of the English nobility ;
while, without royal protection or favor, the Pil-
grims established a great nation, standing proudly
in the foreground of Christian civilization, their
only reward a bare subsistence.
One has shrewdly said that "when a man's
talk is of his ancestors, the best of the family is
underground " ; but that isn't true when retrospect
teaches humility and stirs emulation*
Their story has often been told, but it can never
be fully appreciated, for it has all the elements of a
fascinating romance* If I should try to even epito-
mize it, I should be like that Methodist minister
who ended his sermon : u Brethren, I have had a
great subject, but it has caved in on me/' Read
in the light of what they have produced, and in
the spirit of sympathy which appreciates and enjoys
the religious and civil liberty we inherit, it is fitted
beyond most uninspired records to kindle exalted
ideas of citizenship, and to stimulate young and
old to self-denying service of our country and
mankind* The courage required to defy the per-
secutions of priests and nobles can hardly be
understood now. We recall the self-denial which
caused them to abandon home and country and
the comforts of life,— for nearly all of them were
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well to do, — and seek refuge in a foreign land,
wiih all the hardships attendant upon beginning
life anew; their experiences in Holland, and
especially in the city of f Leyden, that " fair and
beautiful city with a sweete situation," as the old
chronicler has it ; the hospitality of that sturdy and
noble people, who seem to have imparted some of
their own sterling character to the strangers within
their gates; the struggles on the wide Atlantic.
Let their luxurious descendants, who find the com-
forts of the White Star Line inadequate to assuage
the distress of a sea voyage, imagine what it must
have been to those one hundred and two souls on
that leaky old craft of one hundred and sixty tons,
on a three months* voyage to an unknown destina-
tion ; the encounters with the Indians ; the sturdy
manhood which courted loneliness and defied star-
vation and death, esteeming loyalty to God and to
conscience above all other ambitions ; the struggle
to exist, the colony five times decimated, and in
the first winter losing half their number.
Imagine their worship on that sand spit of Cape
Cod, in the open air and the winter weather. It
reminds one very much of the story of the Rev.
Hadley Proctor, of Rutland, Vermont. . One very
cold morning when the church was uncomfortable
and the audience small, he leaned over the pulpit
and addressed the senior deacon in a voice audible
to all : u Deacon Griggs, do see that this church is
properly warmed this afternoon. It is no use
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preaching" to sinners of the danger of hell, when
the very idea of hell is a comfort to them."
And still they held their way, and wedded and
wept, and worshipped and fought, until, under
God's providence, defeat was changed into victory,
the wilderness into a garden, and the humble
Plymouth Colony became the beginning of a great
nation*
He was a wise man who thought it so fortunate
that all the great cities had rivers to run by them ;
but when we merely flatter our fathers for having
ourselves as children, we make the same ludicrous
inversion of cause and effect*
The facts connected with this noble band are
heroic ; they read like an epic of the older Greek
civilization. Levity ill becomes the gravity of their
achievements and surroundings.
The Pilgrims of Plymouth should not be con-
founded with the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay.
The former were larger-minded and more generous-
souled. Their life at Amsterdam and Leyden and
Delft Haven had widened their vision, and broad-
ened their characters beyond the possibilities of
narrow Puritan England. Brewster, Carver,
Standish, and Bradford, under the lead of their
gentle pastor Robinson, were men of a larger
mould than those who came later and absorbed
thern. The Pilgrims burned no witches, perse-
cuted no one, shared their last sack of meal with
the hungry emigrant who came later, received
Roger Williams when he was driven from the
Massachusetts Colony, paid all their debts in Lon-
don, lived in amity and peace with their Indian
neighbors, and showed all those qualities of great-
ness and generosity that are always the accom-
paniment of great and courageous souls*
From such stock came enterprise, industry,
courage, and an impulse that will not be stayed*
With such ancestors it is not strange that, if they
could revisit the earth, they would not be ashamed
of some of their descendants. Their spirit has
never been mustered out of the service* It stood
firm on Lexington Green and at Concord Bridge ;
it clubbed its muskets at .Bunker Hill ; it was on
the field at Bennington and Saratoga ; it endured
at Valley Forge, and stormed at Yorktown* With
that spirit their sons went down to the clench of
Gettysburg and Chickamauga, to Vicksburg and
Atlanta, until century replied to century, and
Worcester's fight was paralleled at Appomattox.
It is that spirit that has made this country great,
and on which its security depends; the strong,
calm, enduring, steadfast, brave, Anglo-Saxon
stuff that for principle and faith will shed its blood,
and doesn't fear to die* Since that bleak Decem-
ber of J 620,
* We've seen the sparks of Empire fly
Beyond the mountain bats,
Till flashing o'er the glittering wave
They met the sunset stars ;
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And ocean trodden into paths
That trampling giants ford,
To find the planet's vertebrae,
And sink its spinal cord/'
And it will continue to animate the descendants
iof the Pilgrims,
44 Till the waves of the bay
Where the Mayflower lay
Shall foam and freeze no more/'
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ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOV-
ERNOR-GENERAL FREDERICK J. DE
PEYSTER, OF THE SOCIETY OF
COLONIAL WARS-
HE GOVERNOR: We have here a
gentleman who has probably more
different kinds of blood m him than
any other person present, although
several have told me they have the
blood of fourteen Mayflower ancestors in their
veins* He charged with Henry of Navarre, and
I believe he represents the Huguenots to-night ; he
also represents those noble men who entertained
our ancestors ; he is a colonial war man, and one
of the Knickerbockers.
I have great pleasure in introducing Mr* Fred-
erick J. De Peystcr, who will speak for the Hugue-
not, and incidentally of all the others to whom I
have alluded.
MR. FREDERICK J. DE PEYSTER: Mr.
Governor, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a hard
thing for a diffident and lonely Knickerbocker to
speak to such an assemblage as this. If any
further discouragement were needed, it is found in
the fact that one so humble and modest as myself
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should be asked to speak after so finished an ora-
tor as Judge Rowland. I do not mind his praise.
I am used to it. It is not that I have heard it so
often for myself, but I have heard him give it to
Beaman and Choate and the others, until every
one of his pretty phrases is familiar.
He has asked me to come here to-night to say a
word for the Huguenots. At the dawn of the
17th century, your Pilgrim ancestors found Eng-
land too uncomfortable for free thought. The
continent of Europe had been for half a century
torn by civil wars. That continent was practically
under the heel of Spanish, French, and German
soldiers, excepting that northern half of the Low
Countries, which we call Holland. That free
race, from whom I am happy to claim descent,
intrenched behind the dykes, had held out against
Spain — that Spain which was relatively as strong
as Germany, Russia, and Italy combined would be
to-day. Against the tremendous power of Spain
was a mere handful of farmers and nobles. But
safe behind the fortresses which skilled Dutch
engineers had built, the mighty cities of Holland
arose.
Belgium* France, Spain, Italy, were all on the
downward path. Art, commerce, and manufac-
tures centered in the strong, vigorous race that had
reared cities among the marshes and sand-banks
of the Netherlands. The first thing for trade or
for mental activity is safety. Guarded by their
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fortresses and by victorious fleets, the proud cities
of the Netherlands were safe* In them, art, com-
merce and manufactures arose and flourished as
they had never flourished before beyond the con-
fines of Italy and Greece. Their renowned uni-
versities attracted students from every quarter of
Europe. Peace and religious liberty made this
glorious land the asylum for the persecuted of all
races. To it from robber-baron-ridden England
came your Pilgrim ancestors. To it from robber-
baron-ridden France, from the cruel persecution of
St. Bartholomew's, came the Huguenot.
The Huguenot needs no introduction to the Pil-
grim, because the Huguenot was the Pilgrim of
France. He lived the same pure life, held the
same faith, had the same devoted courage, while
he lacked nothing of knowledge, nothing of edu-
cation ; but he was narrow with the narrowness
of a thoroughly energetic nature.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your ancestors were
English Puritans. In time they became the Pil-
grim Fathers. Emerson said, " The Puritan knew
the Old Testament by heart, but never turned the
first page of the New/' This was equally true of
the Huguenot. He knew the Old Testament by
heart, but neglected the New. No stronger, no
braver men had ever lived than those Huguenots
and those Puritans ; but they had never seen the
calm of civilized life, until they reached the cities
of Holland. There they found chartered liberty,
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there they found town government in its perfec-
tion, there they found public schools, flourishing
universities ; while the greater parts of France and
England were robber-ridden still, and the spirit of
the feudal middle ages was yet upon them* There
. were places in France and England which had
emerged from darkness, but the light of dawn falls
first on the mountain top, and Holland was on the
peak of the mountain then*
It was during the sojourn of your ancestors, the
Puritans, and of my ancestors, the Huguenots, in
that civilized and free land, that they developed*
From being mere Puritans they grew into that
broader, nobler, grander manhood which fitted
them to become, as they did become, the Fathers
of the great republic yet to be born* That was
their training ground, that their university; and
proud as is Holland, her proudest boast is that she
trained not only her own children, but the Pilgrim
and the Huguenot, to be the fathers of these United
States*
The Huguenot claims that the ** Mayflower " car-
ried within it several Huguenot families, most con-
spicuous, and most poetic of all, that Priscilla who
afterwards married John Alden* I don't know
much about the charms of Priscilla, but as she was
a Huguenot, it behooves me to assert that she was
peerless* Certain it is that history has made her
an ideal figure.
Through all the long colonial life, through the
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long life of to-day, wherever you strike the Hugue-
not strain you find it courageous, intelligent, artistic.
The page of American History is broad, but over
it the Huguenot slrain sends out long slender ten-
drils of glory.
In the hour of danger the Huguenot has never
been absent from the front. Bear witness gallant
Phil Kearney, full of chivalrous de Lancey blood ;
and dashing and romantic Decatur. It was a child
born here in New York, of Huguenot parents,
Peter Faneuil, who afterwards gave to Boston its
very cradle of Liberty.
The Hebrews, as we all know, wandered for
forty years in the wilderness, before entering the
Promised Land. But you have far surpassed that
record ; your ancestors landed some two hundred
and seventy-five years ago at Plymouth, and many
of you have but just reached tne Promised Land
of Manhattan.
I cannot tell you how thankful I am for your
sake and for mine that you are here at last. When
a man has a pearl of great price it seems as if all
the world were combined to wrest it from him.
This is the modern Garden of Eden, we are its
children, but all the races on earth seem bent on
coming over here to wear the flowers.
You know the old saying : " Wheresoever the
carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered to-
gether." Many a stranger thinks on seeing New
York what old Biucher said of London : " What a
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loot!" This island has long been the battle
ground of American civilization. Honesty, good
government, and patriotism are ever in line of
battle against the forces of corruption andbarbarism.
We Knickerbockers are but a handful against a
mighty host; if the battle is to be won we must be
re-inforced. Once before in history a similar battle
was pending on the plains of Marathon, between
nine thousand Athenians and the countless hosts
of Persia* Civilization and liberty were at stake,
but it seemed as though the Athenians were to
fight single-handed, when suddenly from the
mountain passes the little army of Platea emerged
to the rescue, Platea was a small state, she had
only a thousand warriors, yet that thousand with
the Athenians won the immortal battle. But for
this noble, generous action, Platea might well have
been forgotten, but now she will live m history
while Athens and Marathon are remembered.
The Knickerbocker knows well that if he is to
hold New York as a civilized city, as the proper
metropolis of the New World, it must be through
your aid, and your aid must not be less generous
to us than that which the Plateans gave to the
great republic of Athens. You must be true to us ;
and, Governor, in the fond hope that our friends
will remember the warmth of tneir welcome to this
city of my fathers, I trust that they will stand shoul-
der to shoulder with us for all time, in the battle
for civilization. [Applause.]
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ADDRESS OF MR. FREDERIC H. BETTS,
REPRESENTING THE SOCIETY OF
COLONIAL WARS.
HE GOVERNOR : Every one of the
members of this society is, I suppose,
|B[fflra entitled to belong to the Society of the
Colonial Wars. For if any body of
men ever had to do with the Indians,
it was the Pilgrims ; so I have asked Mr. Frederic
H. Betts, although he does not descend from a
Mayflower forefather, to say a few words in be-
half of that society.
MR. F'REDERIC H. BETTS: Mr. Governor,
Ladies and Gentlemen : It is hardly proper for me,
in the presence of the distinguished Governor-
General of the Society of Colonial Wars, to speak
in any official capacity on behalf of that society.
But simply as one of that organization, whose
members trace their descent from all those who, in
war or peace, took any part in the founding, shap-
ing, or preserving of tne Colonial States, I bid you
welcome to the company of historical and genea-
logical societies.
Our older societies have drawn their member-
ship from the descendants of those who were
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united merely by a community of interests and
aims, and by continuity of endeavor in a common
cause; but your society, as it seems to me, has
introduced a novel and interesting principle of
association.
You seek to unite in bonds of reconstructed
comradeship the descendants of those who were
originally animated, not only by common aims,
but who were bound together by ties of the closest
personal acquaintances, and whose friendship was
cemented by suffering and by the patient endur-
ance of the greatest perils.
Who can, at this date, fully understand and
appreciate the closeness of the personal tie that
bound together those comrades who, in the cabin
of the " Mayflower/' two hundred and seventy-
five years ago this night, signed the famous Com-
pact.
Some of them had been friends and acquaint-
ances from the time when, in the cause of con-
science, they had gathered together in the parlor
of the old Manor House at Scrooby. Some of
them had shared together the poignant regret with
which they left the green fields of old England,
and the calm quiet homes at Austerfield, or the
banks of the Idle, and expatriated themselves to
Holland. Many of them had joined the little
company that gathered together in Leyden during
the twelve years' truce between Spain and Hol-
land, and had formed there a union of hearts and
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hands. All of them had shared the disappoint-
ments of a journey during which a fifth of their
company had turned back, and the perils of a
voyage into the unknown West, in a leaky and
unseaworthy ship; until, out of their reckoning
on the pathless waste of water, they accidentally
sighted Cape Cod, after a two months' voyage.
And who can tell of the love that must have
bound together the little company of survivors of
the first terrible winter at Plymouth, during which
half of their number perished, before their state
was fully formed ?
You have done right, ladies and gentlemen, to
revive the memory of that close companionship of
the old heroes in the cause of conscience and of
liberty. You need no descent from governors and
office-holders, or from any officers in the Colonial
Wars. To have been the humblest of the May-
flower company was to have been a hero. To be
descended from one of these requires no further
honors of ancestral distinction, for it was they who
laid the foundations of the New England States.
[Applause.]
T hese were the men who loved the homes and
liberties of old England too well to lose themselves
and their descendants among foreign peoples and
foreign tongues ; and who braved the terrors of a
voyage in comparison with which a journey to
the farthest corner of the globe to-day is as noth-
ing, in order that in a new and unsettled country
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they might found a new England, with larger lib-
erties and a freer life.
Your ancestors still sit with us, in spirit, to-day,
beside every pure fireside in the land ; and their
example inspires us with enthusiasm for a purer
State, where every man shall perform his share of
public duties, and bear his share of public respon-
sibility,— a spirit which I feel is reanimating the
American people to-day. [Applause.]
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ADDRESS OF MR. CHARLES C BEA-
MAN, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT OF
THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY,
^S^HE GOVERNOR: I am now going to
nRn™1 ca^ on a rePresenta^ve of the larger
l^i^j society.
asssul j cnce kearci Tom Reed say that he
trembled to think what would have
happened if the Pilgrims had landed upon the coast
of California, where they would have become lux-
urious and indolent, while their life on the rocky soil
of New England had made them industrious and
thrifty ; that an earnest and sincere desire to get
six per cent, with a willingness to take more, had
done more for the world than all the crusades.
I call upon the First Vice-President of the New
England Society, Mr. Charles C. Beaman, whom
you all know, and who is capable of representing
any society, to respond on its behalf.
MR. CHARLES C BEAMAN: Governor
Howland, Ladies and Gentlemen : I have followed
Judge Howland a great many times but never at
so late an hour as this. I had hoped to be at
home by this time. I told my wife I would not be
home at dinner, as I was going to a dinner of the
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Mayflower descendants* Finding it was a supper,
I wandered around the streets until half-past ten,
and now I am here after one o'clock, but before
breakfast I come here and find Judge Rowland
has played me, not a trick, but he has got ahead
of me* He and I have long known each other
as New Englanders. It happens that I am the
First Vice-President of the New England Society,
and he is the Second Vice-President, and we are
striving for the Presidency, and I come here and
find him at the head of a society more select than
the New England Society, and having ladies in its
membership. [Laughter.] Judge Howland has
a big start of me, but I will not be beaten. I am
going to start a society known as the Society of
Noan s Ark Descendants [laughter and applause],
and that society will take in everybody. It is a
society that when it once gets started you will
wonder it was not thought of before. It will be
very universal, but in its origin it was very select.
I cannot be historical as some of the speakers have
been, nor can I string pearls as Judge Howland
can. I can simply talk, and I can talk until
morning.
Ladies and Gentlemen, seriously, for Judge
Howland and I believe in serious things, is it all
right for you to form this exclusive society and
leave out the rest of New England ? I am told by
a gentleman here that he is descended, and he tells
me that many of you are descended, from number
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thirteen ; I ask what number thirteen means, and
he says that there were forty-one signers of the
Mayflower Compact, and that you all date from
ancestors in the order of their signing. Don't you
take into account, Mr. Governor, that of those
forty-one only fifteen of them were married when
they landed and brought their families, and of
those fifteen, half died within three months, and
their widows married again? Perhaps I am a
descendant of one of those widows. I tell you,
women of this society, stand up for the rights of
the mothers that were on board the " Mayflower."
What if the men alone did sign that Compact ! I
tell you no man makes any compact unless the
woman assents. I think I could get into this
society on the score of the mothers' second hus-
bands. For of course the mothers must have
married again with all these descendants,*
I was down at Atlanta the other day, and this
Mayflower excitement has arrived there; wher-
ever I looked in the museum there was something
connected with the " Mayflower " ; I saw what
appeared to me like some yachts of the Mayflower,
Puritan, or Valkyrie type. I went nearer them,
and read the card on them, on which was written :
"These shoes came over in the Mayflower."
They were wooden shoes, but how one hundred
* Mr. Beaman is mistaken. The Society accepts as members anyone,
otherwise properly qualified, who can trace descent to any passenger on
the first trip of the " Mayflower," male or female, whether a signer of
the Compact or not. — ED.
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and two men or women wearing such sized shoes
could have come over in one trip of the " May-
flower," I can't imagine. I have been looking
around at your shoes, and I assure you that you
can tell a descendant of the Mayflower passengers
by looking at his or her feet. I don't believe
those big wooden shoes did come over in the
" Mayflower*" I know that their ancestors did
come over, and the ancestor from whom the only
Judge Rowland — well, I am glad the Judge's
ancestor's pants held* [Laughter J Why should
Judge Howland exult because his ancestor's pants
were strong ? He might have been in the Holland
Society if the boat hook had torn his ancestor's, —
John Howland's, — pants, as he was fished into the
44 Mayflower*" Perhaps you remember our friend
from Philadelphia, Dr. Wayland, and what a great
speech he made at a New England dinner on
Plymouth Rock pants. [Laughter.] But this
society, as Judge Howland says, should not be
made fun of. I know an ancestor of mine named
Greenleaf, — -most of you older members studied
his so-called Greenleaf s Arithmetic, — who said,
speaking of his ancestors, one of them was hung,
and a good many more ought to have been. So
when 1 read about what happened to these pas-
sengers on the first trip of the H Mayflower," I find
one of them was hung, — of course, it was all a
mistake.
I am delighted that your ancestors came over
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first, and I am delighted they landed where they
did. You know that they started for this Waldorf
Hotel, and had one of de Peyster's ancestors to
pilot them, and they did not go where they in-
tended to go, but where they ought to have gone.
If they had landed here in New York, there would
have been no New England, and they would not
have been met by Massasoit and have heard him
say, " Welcome, Englishmen, <*lad to see you here,
don't you know/' You are ahead of my society,
which I must stand up for ; but I feel that I can-
not, as a New Englancler, do anything but homage
to the ancestors of this society, who came here,
not as the rest of us came, following others, but
risking life, everything* What I like about your
ancestors is that after they arrived they were not
landed as some of us have been, but they landed
themselves; when they put those big feet of
theirs down, they landed. What if half of them did
die during the first winter, what if of the fifty sur-
vivors there were only six or seven that could then
fire a gun, and could dig clams that kept the rest
alive. These same men opened Indian graves,
and found corn, and during that terrible first
winter, lived on it. They sent back the " May-
flower " to tell those at home that they were still
alive. More passengers came over, and still more
each year. My ancestor, Gamaliel Beaman, came
in 1635.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot be, with
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you, a member of this society, but as the Presi-
dent— I beg your pardon, the Vice-President — of
the New England Society of New York, I express
to you thanks for your invitation. You are in this
select society, and I cannot but regret that I am not
of you* For each and all of the New England
societies unite in love and affection for your ances-
tors, and I think I must love your great-great-great-
great-great-grandfathers almost as much as you
ao* I cannot be so proud of my descent as you ;
but, ladies and gentlemen, it is love that governs
the world, not pride. You have for them both
love and pride ; I have for them the love and esteem
which all New Englanders have, and these I bring
to you to-night [Applause ♦]
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ADDRESS OF MR. WILLIAM H.
MCELROY.
HE GOVERNOR: I wish to call on
another gentleman here, who represents
another blood than ours, the Scotch-
Irish, which has had a marked in-
fluence in the development and growth
of the country, and Mr. William H. McElroy will
respond to the toast to their honor*
MR. WILLIAM H. MCELROY: Mr. Gover-
nor, Ladies and Gentlemen : When I heard our
friend, Mr. Beaman, suggest the formation of a
society of Noah's Ark descendants, it occurred to
me that if a man yearns to start at the beginning,
he could do better than that. Some one tells of
seeing a play in a German town, in which Adam
was depicted, in scene first, as going across the
stage to be created. The fact that I am here to-
night attests that your society is generously given
to toleration. For I have no Mayflower ancestors,
and when it comes to blood my favorite brand
is Scotch-Irish. Speaking of toleration, I always
fancied the story of the girl whose lover, after pro-
posing to her and being accepted, said, " I have one
thing to tell you that may perhaps break the en-
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gagement — I am a contortionist." And the girl
promptly replied, u Never mind, Jim, it's an age of
religious toleration, and if you are a contortionist,
I will go to the church where you go*"
Even as the rain descends upon the just and the
unjust, so your hospitality embraces Mayflower
descendants and other children of men whom you
count less fortunate. I remember hearing of a
certain lady who came to grief by boasting of her
Mayflower blood. " You may not be aware," she
said to a little knot of people at an afternoon tea,
" that some of my ancestors sailed in the ' May-
flower.' " Whereupon one of her dear friends
replied, " But really ? Why, do you know I sup-
posed that the * Mayflower ' carried no steerage
passengers."
Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad that this society
is a society of the descendants of the "May-
flower," for, frankly, it occurs to me that the de-
scendants of the "Mayflower" are better and
broader men and women than their originals
were. I think that is a proposition that may be
fairly maintained.
[A voice : I would like to be heard on that.]
They stood for the right of private judgment, for
the integrity of the individual conscience, for gov-
ernment by the people ; they stood for pure religion
undefiled ; they stood for education. It seems to
me that the children stand for all that to-day, and
stand just as firmly as, and more efficiently than,
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their fathers stood for it. Take the men who
went to the front in 1860 to 1865, from Sumter
to Appomattox* Do you think that your Pilgrim
Fathers could have put up a better fight than they
did ? Of course you don't. Take religion unde-
filed. Is not the church to-day more practical,
further reaching, better organized, than it ever was
before ? A great many partitions have been thrown
down; and to-day trie church which does not
issue transfers good on any of the other lines that
lead to the New Jerusalem, is an exception. So
with education ; we are making two school-houses
grow where one grew before ; and there is no de-
mand that has a larger public sentiment behind it
than the demand, " Hands off the public schools."
So I contend that the children to-day are better at
all events, and more efficient than their fathers
were.
In addition to all this, the children have what
the Pilgrim Fathers did not have. They have
some aesthetic sense. Your Pilgrim Fathers were
saintly, but lacked style. Grace did a good deal
for them, but they had no acquaintance, not even
by sight, with the Graces. I doubt if there was a
man on the u Mayflower n who ever perpetrated a
pun, or told a story, or got up a pool on the run-
ning of the ship.
[Mr. Beaman : I guess John Howland did.]
I heard a story last winter of a New England
couple who went to the ^menagerie and saw a
■•■
cross-eyed hippopotamus. The wife, after care-
fully inspecting him, turned to her husband and
exclaimed, "My, ain't he plain!" [Laughter.]
Now the lives of these Puritan fathers were about
as plain, about as unembellished, as the appearance
of that cross-eyed hippopotamus. The Pilgrim
Fathers make one think of what Dr. Holland said
after a visit to the Shakers, — that he thought God
loved the Shakers, but he did not believe that God
admired them. So I say, I am glad that this is a
dinner of the descendents of the " Mayflower," who
have assembled to celebrate themselves. It is well
to have the pride of a healthy self-esteem. Bishop
Berkeley has told us that "Time's noblest offspring
is the last"; and holding with the Bishop, we
may claim that these women and men of 1895,
rather than their progenitors of 1 620, are entitled
to stand at the head of modern civilization. Still,
in order to make it all right with my friend on the
right [Mr. Beaman], I may add that, after all, it is
a mere accident that you are the children, and they
the progenitors. It is simply owing to circum-
stances not under one's control. Carver might
have written the Emancipation Proclamation, and
Abraham Lincoln might have been the leader of
the Mayflower band. [Applause.]
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ADDRESS OF MR. ARTHUR LORD,
PRESIDENT OF THE PILGRIM SOCI-
ETY OF PLYMOUTH, MASSACHU-
SETTS.
HE GOVERNOR : I bespeak your at-
tention to Mr. Arthur Lord, of the
^JqIM£] Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Massa-
r^S'.-^y chusetis, who comes from the very-
home of our ancestors.
MR. ARTHUR LORD: Mr. Governor: I
have come, sir, in response to your courteous
invitation, to attend the First Annual Meeting of
the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and to
bring to it the greetings of the Pilgrim Society,
which was founded in 1819, as its act of incorpo-
ration reads, by certain citizens of Plymouth, to
44 perpetuate the memory of the virtues, the enter-
prise and the unparalleled sufferings of their ances-
tors who first settled in that town." To the keep-
ing of that society is now intrusted the rock on
which the Pilgrim foot first trod, the hill above it,
where those who died that first bleak and pitiless
winter were buried in unmarked and levelled
graves, that the Indian foe might not discover
now many were dead and how few were living.
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r
On the hill above the town stands the National
monument to the forefathers, erected by the so-
ciety, through the generous contributions of loyal
sons of New England widely scattered from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. The statue which sur-
mounts it illustrates the spirit of faith which ani-
mated the Pilgrims; and the figures at the four
corners typify those other principles upon which
they taught us the future ot the great states, and
the greater nation which they founded, can alone
securely rest, — the cardinal principles of freedom
and education, of morality and law.
When there shall stand on the slope of Burial
Hill a memorial church of enduring material,
simple and dignified in design, whose corner-stone
it is hoped to lay on the approaching anniversary
of the landing of the Pilgrims, the events and
localities of Pilgrim life and history will have been
fitly marked in Plymouth.
Then, sir, there will remain the grateful duty
and the inestimable privilege, which the youngest
society and the oldest will, ever share, not only of
celebrating on their recurring anniversaries the
two great events in Pilgrim history, — the signing
of the Compact m the cabin of the " Mayflower "
on the 22d of November, and the landing of the
Pilgrims on the 21st of December upon the rock
at Plymouth, — but also of commemorating the
faith and spirit and purpose which inspired the
Pilgrims ; of recalling the story of their lives and
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labors, of the love of freedom which animated
them, of the breadth of thought and toleration of
expression which characterized them ; and the
duty of impressing upon the generations which
shall share the splendid destiny of the Republic,
the lesson which the Pilgrim taught, that liberty
unregulated by law is not liberty, but license ; and
that education and morality in its broadest mean-
ing must go hand in hand to work out the perfect
result
There is one other day m Pilgrim history which,
if less important in some respects than the days of
the Compact and the landing, will ever have a
peculiar interest and a special charm*
The long, dreary winter is over ; the snow has
disappeared ; the ice has left the harbor ; the sweet
springs of fresh running water which first attracted
the Pilgrims flow unobstructed to the sea ; the first
signs of approaching Spring are at hand ; the song
of the birds is heard ; the frost has left the ground ;
the gales which delayed the return of the " May-
flower" have exhausted themselves; the sun of
the 15th of April shines warm upon the peaceful
bay* Upon the attentive ear even now there
seems to fall the song of the sailors, the creak of
the windlass, the flapping of the sail, as the u May-
flower " leaves her winter anchorage, and slowly
glides away past Clark's Island and Saquish and
the Gurnet. The exiles upon the shore, watch-
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ing the receding vessel through their tears, see her
fade away, for a moment a white wing upon the
horizon, now lost behind the pathless sea.
Of the one hundred and two passengers who
landed upon the shore, less than four months be-
fore, forty-four, nearly half, are sleeping the sleep
that knows no waking, upon the hillside above
the rock. At the end of the first year, of the adult
members of the company, thirty-six are dead, and
only twenty-three survive. Of the servants, but
one of the nine who landed remains. Of the boys
and girls, twenty-five out of thirty-two are left;
and, with the two seamen who were hired for one
year, make up the company who are to found a
nation whose descendants in later years are to
gather in great cities the splendor and prosperity
of which their fathers never dreamed.
Imagine, if you can, for one moment, the doubts
and anxieties and fears which must have filled the
minds and oppressed the hearts of those immortal
men and women on whom fell the burden and
responsibilities of that day, as they saw disappear
the last tie which could unite them with their old
homes beyond the ocean ; as they stood there, the
unknown wilderness behind them, the pathless
sea before. Conceive, if you can, the superb cour-
age, the unbounded confidence, the sublime faith
which inspired them, as each turned sadly away
to the tasks and the trials which awaited him. Is
there a more pathetic and a more inspiring spec-
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tacle than that which the hills of Plymouth wit-
nessed upon that April day ? You may turn the
pages of history in vain for an example or a
paralleL
And so, sir, in the days to come, when domestic
insurrection or foreign levy may confront the
people ; when perils and doubts gather along the
pathway of the Republic; and men grow pessi-
mistic, and despair of final and lasting triumph
over the difficulties which sometimes seem to sur-
round them, and doubt whether the ship of state
must not surely be wrecked upon the rocks of
unlimited immigration, or corporate greed, or mu-
nicipal misgovernment, or ignorance, or bigotry ;
then let them turn back to the shores of Plymouth,
and in the lives and faith and examples of the Pil-
grim Company of 1 620, and the Pilgrim Company
of 162 J, find renewed confidence and fresh courage
and a more abiding faith.
44 The Pilgrim spirit has not fled %
It walks in noon's broad light,
And watches the bed of the brave who have bled,
With the holy stars by night.
44 It watches the bed of the brave who have bled,
And will guard these ice-bound shores
Till the waves in the bay where the Mayflower
lay
Shall foam and freeze no more."
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ADDRESS OF DR. JOHN ORDRONAUX,
REPRESENTING THE OLD COLONY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TAUN-
TON, MASSACHUSETTS.
HE GOVERNOR : We shall all be glad
to hear from Dr. John Ordronaux, the
representative of the Old Colony His-
torical Society of Taunton, Massachu-
setts.
MR. ORDRONAUX: Mr. Governor, Ladies
and Gentlemen: As we are now in the small
hours of morning, a motion to adjourn for break-
fast would seem more proper than an attempt to
add any remarks to the many already made.
Moreover, I feel a reluctance in undertaking to
raise my voice conspicuously in a chartered society
whose constitutional qualifications for membership
do not extend beyond the passenger list of the im-
mortal u Mayflower." I am not a descendant of
any member of that renowned company. I do not
belong to the Brahmin caste of New England.
The blood of those Puritan saints and founders
of its commonwealth governments does not flow
in my veins. I am reminded, therefore, that my
presence here is one of privilege and courtesy, and
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not of right; and I accept your invitation as an
act of graceful hospitality to the society which I
represent*
And yet, catching inspiration from those many
words of praise which have been uttered as a
deserved tribute to your ancestors, I cannot forego
the opportunity of dwelling upon some of those
underlying qualities in their character which seem
to me to have escaped notice this evening. The
currents of filial reverence have indeed overflowed
their banks in all that has been said in these
acknowledgments of our national indebtedness to
them ; and the presentation of their surface achieve-
ments in the architecture of civil government,
ample as they have been, will always form an in-
spiring text to the lovers of political liberty* But
why not go deeper, as becomes a family gathering,
and look into the springs of moral action which
moved them? Why not ask ourselves, while
commemorating that November night in the small
cabin of the "Mayflower," amid these splendors
of modern surroundings, whether it was not the
very absence of these habits of luxury, refinement,
and whatever else goes to constitute style as a
standard of daily life, which fitted them to be pio-
neers and founders of empires ? They repudiated
every form of worship which was sensuous or
clothed in the garments of ceremonial pomp. In
their private life they were not less consistent,
for the homely virtues they practised were not
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confined to prayers or Sabbath-day observances ,
They had seen the weakening influences of luxury
and self-indulgence, as exhibited in the character
of rulers both in Church and State; and the,
rightly reasoned that men, to prepare themselves
for great undertakings, must first break loose fror-
the shackles of effeminacy in every phase of 111?,
Hence their repudiation of the Fine Arts in privar. .
as in public architecture, in home life as in wor-
ship, was to them the wisest corner-stone thai
could be laid in the foundation of the Purity rs
character. To their minds the chief duty of mor;'
existence was to maintain the supremacy of if
spirit over the flesh, and all that ministered to ft
pleasures of the latter were but so many sta:
upon the purity of the former. Music, poetry
and the drama were the snares set by the Tempt
to weaken the majesty of the spirit, and to impri? ::•
it in the embraces of the emotions. In just cor::-
tency, they turned their faces from them as fror: ■
the voice of the siren, never abating a jot or tittle
from the examples they borrowed out of the C)
Testament. In the light of their imperial labors
and success, shall we not say that their wisdor
stands vindicated, and a challenge to the emu
tion of their descendants ?
The Pilgrim Fathers well understood that cl
liberty in Church, as well as in State, was a thL
to be fought for, as well as prayed for; and t
the labor of preparation to sustain a noble ca<
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must be hand-labor, as well as head-labor, in both
men and women. Home and the Church were
the arsenals in which these men and women
forged the virile character which enabled them to
breast the wintry Atlantic, and to overcome the
myriad dangers which confronted them. I repeat,
that it was this non-conformity to luxurious style
in habits of private life, as in mere non- conformity
to the discipline of the Established Church, which
prepared the character of the Pilgrim, and opened
the way to success where others would have
fainted in the effort.
As incidental to these sturdy traits in the private
character of the early colonists, I may say that the
cultivation of instrumental music as a domestic
accomplishment was, in Plymouth, an art of com-
paratively recent introduction. I am informed on
good authority that as late as 1820 there were
only two pianos there. One of these, now owned
in the town of Kingston, bears upon its key-board
the name of its first owner, in evidence of her taste
for an instrument not yet domiciled among the
descendants of the Pilgrims. What was it that
could have restrained the progress of this branch
of the Fine Arts, except the traditional feeling that
the cultivation of music was both a dangerous
luxury and a menace to the mental and moral
strength of childhood.
There are some of us, not yet octogenarians,
who can remember the sound of the spinning
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wheel, as it was plied in the long winter evenings
of New England, by the hands of a busy mother,
answering fully to the description given of her in the
Thirty-first Giapter of Proverbs. There are some
of us who have slept between blankets woven by
such hands, and seen the untiring assiduity with
which every domestic office was performed from
morn to night, under the sacred impulses of
maternal love. Nor have such labors been in
vain, for health and longevity have descended,
like heavenly blessings, upon these Berecynthian
mothers, whose sons, like yourselves, have hon-
ored both their parentage and the land of their
birth. Well will it be with their daughters if
they, too, can emulate the virtues of their Doric
mothers, within the sacred precincts of their
hearthstones.
Ladies and gentlemen, as the breakfast hour is
much nearer than wrhen I began, and there must
be limits to even your courtesy and forbearance, I
thank you for having permitted me to address you.
As a stranger who may never again enjoy that
privilege, I hone your reunions may be frequent ;
carrying sunshine into every heart, leaving only
pleasant memories behind them, and, beyond all,
serving to remind you of the ** goodly heritage " of
ancestral fame that has fallen to your lot.
MR. BEAMAN: I am not to be bulldozed.
There is one thing that has been said against you,
83
ladies and gentlemen, by my friend here* You,
sir, say that their ancestors had no style. Now I
have read only within twenty-four hours, among
the laws, this law, "No woman shall wear a dress
with short sleeves, and not more than half an ell
in width "; half an ell is twenty-two inches.
Look around this room. Is there no style here ?
Did not their ancestors have style? I tell you,
ladies and gentlemen, you are descended from
men and women who were stylish. They were
stylish, and you are stylish.
!
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TOAST TO MRS. DANIEL M. STIMSON,
REPRESENTING THE SOCIETY OF
COLONIAL DAMES.
igljHE GOVERNOR: There is still one
f-l^i^M society represented here from which
fej|X(&$| we have not heard, and I propose the
"ml health of Mrs- Daniel M. Stimson of
the Society of Colonial Dames. [The
members all rise ana drink the health of Mrs-
Stimson-]
MRS- STIMSON: Mr- Governor, Ladies and
Gentlemen: Silence is the conceded privilege of
woman, and I therefore content myself with
thanking you very much for this honor, in behalf
of the Society of Colonial Dames.
S5
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iy^^^Jff ILD was the day ; the wintry sea
SHI If)
Moaned sadly on New England's
Uf strand;
When first, the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers trod the desert land*
They little thought how pure a light,
"With yeais, should gather round that day;
How love should keep their memories bright,
How wide a realm their sons should sway*
.
Green arc their hays ; and greener still
Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed,
And regions now untrod shall thrill
With reverence, when their names are breathed*
Till where the sun, with softer fires,
Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep,
The children of the Pilgrim sires
This hallowed day like tis shall keep*
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
(The maiden surname of married women is printed in italics.)
\\% ADAMS, EDWARD MILTON, Chicago, 111.
Ninth in descent from John Howland [J3].
*25. ALDERSON, VICTOR CLIFTON, Chicago, IIL
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
107. ALLEN, GRACE MASON WESTON (Mrs. Wal-
ter), New Haven, Conn,
Seventh in descent from George Soule [35]*
52. ALLEN, FRANCIS OLCOTT, Philadelphia, Pa.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
ML. ALLEN, MARY LOUISE TRUMBULL (Mis.
Henry), New York, N. Y.
Sixth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
6. ALLERTON, WALTER SCOTT, Mount Vernon,
N.Y
Eighth in. descent from Isaac Allerton [5].
HO. ANDRUS, EDWIN PROCTOR, Captain Fifth
Cavalry, U. S. A., Fort Ringgold, Texas.
Ninth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [\ 4].
39
27. BACKUS, REV. BRADY ELECTUS, D.D., New
York, R Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
J20. BACKUS, ELIZABETH CHESTER, New York,
RY.
Tenth In descent from William Bradford [2].
4. BACKUS, J, BAYARD, New York, R Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2]«
4*. BACKUS, MARIA AVERILL, Schenectady, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
7U BACON, ANNA FOSDICK, Bronxviile, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4]#
i 6. BACON, FRANCIS, Bronxviile, R ¥.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
163. BACON, GORHAM, M.D., New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
72. BACON, ROSALIE, BronxviUe, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
70. BACON, WILLIAM POST HAWES, Bronxviile,
RY.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
90
92. BARNEY, LILLY COLLINS WHITNEY (Mrs.
Charles Tracy), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
96. BARTLETT, GEORGE FREDERIC HUNTER,
M.D., Buffalo, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
57. BENJAMIN, MARCUS, New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
130. BINNEY, WILLIAM GREENE, Burlington, N. J.
Ninth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [14-].
103. BISSELL, JAMES DOUGAL, MIX, New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
90. BLOOD, JOHN BALCH, Schenectady, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7]*
109. BOWERS, HENRY, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Richard Warren [121.
121. BOWMAN, GEORGE ERNEST, Boston, Mass.
Tenth in descent from William Brewster [4].
158. BRAINARD, MARY JERUSHA BULKELEY
(Mrs* Leverett), Hartford, Conn*
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
9*
J53. BREWSTER, BENJAMIN, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
60. BREWSTER, HENRY COLVIN, Rochester, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
69. BREWSTER, JANE EUNICE, Rochester, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
J6f. BREWSTER, WADSWORTH JACKSON, Han-
nibal, N. Y
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
J 72. BRINLEY, CHARLES A., Philadelphia, Pa.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2J.
9*. BROWN, ANNA WILLIS LAWRENCE (Mrs.
Charles Hilton), New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from William Brewster [4].
67. BRUGGERHOF, LUCY OTIS (Mrs. Edward
Everett), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
iOU BRYANT, PERCY, MJD„ Buffalo, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [J 3].
J50. BULKELEY, MORGAN GARDNER, Hartford,
Conn.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
92
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U3. BUTLER, LOUISE TERRY COLLINS (Mrs. Wil-
liam Allen, J*.), Yonkers, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
43. CHILD, CHARLES SHUBAEL, Philadelphia, Pa.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
140. CHITTENDEN, CORNELIA KATHARINE, St.
Paul, Minn.
Tenth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [J 4].
78. CHITTENDEN, EDWIN SEDGWICK, St. Paul,
Minn.
Ninth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [J 4].
75. CLARK, ALONZO HOWARD, Washington, D.C
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
95. COE, HENRY CLARK, M.D., New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Alden [7].
39. COLLINS, CLARENCE LYMAN, New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
87. DAVIS, HELENE BARTLETT O'LEARY (Mrs.
Langdon Shannon), Brookline, Mass.
Eighth in descent from Richard Warren [J 2].
93
36. DAVIS, HOWLAND, New York, N. Y«
Eighth in descent from William White [II].
82. DEVIOCK, HENRY FARNAM, New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from William Bradford [2.]
84. DIMOCK, SUSAN CORNELIA WHITNEY (Mrs.
Henry Farnam) , New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
85. DrMOCK, SUSAN MARIA, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
*64. DODGE, KATHARINE HANNAH ALDEN
(Mrs. O. Alonzo), Brooklyn, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Alden [7].
88. DOTY, PAUL AARON LANGEVIN, Paterson,
N.J.
Seventh in descent from Edward Doty [40].
22. DOTY, WILLIAM HENRY, Yonkers, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Edward Doty [40].
8J. EI. WOOD, MARY CHENEY (Mrs. Geo. May),
Rochester, N. Y?
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
JO. FISHER, HELEN MELINDA, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
94
f46. FREEMAN, GEORGE WENTWORTH, Port-
land, Oregon*
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
59. GLEASON, ANNIE WHITE (Mrs. John Blanch-
ard), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from James Chilton [24]»
115. GORHAM, GEORGE CONGDON, Washington,
D. C
Seventh in descent from John Howland [i 3].
28. GREENE, EDNA MUNSON, New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from John Tilley [J 6].
152. GREENE, MARGARET MARIA BROMLEY
(Mrs> Charles Arthur), Summit, N. J.
Eighth in descent from Myles Standish [6].
12. GREENE, MARSHALL WINSLOW, New York,
N.Y.
Tenth in descent from John Tilley [16].
25. GREENE, MARY GERTRUDE MUNSON (Mrs.
Richard Henry), New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from John Tilley [J6].
U GREENE, RICHARD HENRY, New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from John Tilley [16].
95
29. GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD, New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
J5. GRINTSELL, LOUISE BLISS, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John AJden [7].
17. GRINNELL, NANCY, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
3. GRINNELL, WILLIAM MILNE, New York,
N.Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
30. GRINNELL, WILLIAM MORTON, New York,
N.Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
58. HARTPENCE, MARTHA MOR TON (Mrs. Alan-
son), Philadelphia, Pa*
Seventh in descent from Stephen Hopkins [j4].
162. HASKINS, CHARLES WALDO, New York, N.Y.
Ninth in descent from John Howland [S3].
14 J. HATCH, FREDERIC HORACE, New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from John Alden [7].
W. HAWES, EMORY, New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from John Howland [13].
96
55. HAWES, JAMES ANDERSON, New York, N, Y.
Ninth m descent from John Rowland [13],
21. HJLL, AMELIA LEA.VITT FOOTE (Mrs. Edward
Bruce), New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Howland [J 3].
20. HILL, EDWARD BRUCE, New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Howland [\ 3].
9. HO ADLEY, JAMES HENRY, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
66. HOPKINS, SHliRBURNE GILLETTE, Washing-
ton, D. C.
Eighth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [f 4].
65. HOPKINS, THOMAS SNELL, Washington, D. C
Seventh in descent from Stephen Hopkins [14].
54. HOWLAND, HENRY E., New York, N. Y.
Sixth in descent from John Howland [13].
J0Q. HOWLAND, HENRY RAYMOND, Buffalo,
N.Y.
Sixth in descent from John Howland [J3].
UU HUBBELL, ANNIE LAW, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
97
18. HUTCHINS, AUGUSTUS SCHELL, New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
8. HUTCHINS, WALDO, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
4a JACKSON, JAMES HATHAWAY, M.D., Dans-
ville, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
156. JAMES, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER, Ogdens-
kirgh, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
*23. JOHNSTON, MERVYN EDWARD, Chicago, HL
Eighth in descent from Richard Warren [J 2].
J06. KANE, FANNY RANDELL BRANDRETH
' (Mrs. John I.), Sing Sing, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Edward Winslow [3].
147. KNOWER, BENJAMIN, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
3J. LANDON, MARY GRINNELL (Mrs. Edward
Hunter), New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
93
97. LARKIN, LILY VIRGINIA BRANDRETH (Mrs.
Francis, Jr.), Sing Sing-, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Edward Winslow [3].
*57. LAWRENCE, REBECCA ELIZABETH SPOON-
ER (Mrs. Albert Effingham), Yonkers, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Alden [7].
i7U LEACH, FRANK WILLING, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ninth in descent from Francis Cook [J 7].
129. LEACH, JOSIAH GRANVILLE, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ninth in descent from Francis Cook [17].
5. LEE, EDWARD CLINTON, Philadelphia, Pa.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
63. LEONARD, EDGAR COTRELL, Albany, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2J.
47. LITTLE, MINNIE LOUISE NORTON (Mrs. Wil-
Iard Parker), New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from John Howland [f3].
J37. LOMBARD, JOSIAH LEWIS, Chicago, HI.
Eighth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [J 4].
*68. LOVELL, FRANK HALLETT, New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Howland [J3].
99
170. LOVELL, FRANK HALLETT, JR* New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [J 3].
169. LOVELL, ISABEL, New York, N, Y.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [131
i 66. LOW, ABBOT AUGUSTUS, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [131
J67. LOW, SETH, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [f3].
23. MCCARTNEY, CATHARINE ELIZABETH
SEA RLE (Mrs. William H.), Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Ninth in descent from William Mullins [JO].
76. MCKINSTRY, CHARLES HEDGES, First Lieu-
tenant Corps Engineers, U. S. A., Newport, R. I.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
79. MCKINSTRY, ELISHA WILLIAMS, San Fran-
cisco, CaL
Seventh in descent from William Bradford [2].
*27. MANSON, THOMAS LINCOLN, Jr., New York,
N.Y.
Ninth in descent from William White [U].
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32. MARTIN, LAURA GR/NNELL (Mrs. Newell),
New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
14. MARTIN, SUSAN TABER, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Francis Cook [17].
124. MAYNARD, MARY ADAMS BEARDSLEY
(Mrs. John Frederick), Utica, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
142. MINTON, ELIZABETH ALICE MILLER (Mrs.
Henry Brewster), Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
143. MINTON, MARY BREWSTER (Mrs. Henry),
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Brewster [4].
155. MITCHELL, CAROLINE CARSON WOOLSEY
(Mrs. Edward), New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from John Tilley [16].
42. MOLLER, HELENE ALLEN (Mrs. Charges George,
Jr.), New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Peter Brown [33].
26. MORRIS, IDA NESBITT TUCKER (Mrs. Tyler
Seymour), Chicago, 111.
Eleventh in descent from William Muliins [10].
101
6U MORTON, LEVI PARSONS, Rhinecliff, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Stephen Hopkins [14],
43* MUNSON, HENRY THEODORE, New York,
N.Y.
Tenth in descent from John Tilley [16].
45. NEWCOMB, GEORGE FRANKLIN, New Haven,
Conn.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
133. NEWCOMB, GEGRGE WHITFIELD, Chicago, 111.
Seventh in descent from William Bradford [2].
139. NEWCOMB, JOHN BEARSE, Elgin, HI.
Seventh in dexent from William Bradford [2].
2. NORTON, EDWARD LOUDON, New York,
N.Y.
Ninth in descent from John Howland [13].
37. NORTON, LOUISE ENGEL SEGGERMANN
(Mrs. Edward Loudon), New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
S3. OGLESBY, MARGARET ANTOINETTE LEN-
NIG {Mrs. Joseph Henry), New Orleans, La.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
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33. PAGE, HELEN JESUP GRINNELL (Mrs. William
Drummond), New York, N. Y.
Tenth in descent from William Bradford [2].
*35. PERKINS, ELIZABETH BISHOP, New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from George Soule [35].
134. PERKINS, MARY EMILY SOIVLES (Mrs. New-
ton), New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from George Soule [35].
93. PITKIN, SARAH HOWARD LOOMIS (Mrs.
Albert Hastings), Hartford, Conn.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
J02. POTTER, HELEN WARD B RAND RET H (Mrs.
Frederick), Sing Sing, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Edward Winslow [3].
J38. PRINCE, LE BARON BRADFORD, Santa F£
New Mexico.
Seventh in descent from William Bradford [2].
*26. RAWSON, FANNIE DELPHINE WILLIAMS
(Mrs. Warren), Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ninth in descent from William Brewster [4].
56. READ, JOHN MEREDITH, Paris, France.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
103
160. REILLY, EMMA TOWER (Mrs. Thomas Alex-
ander ), Philadelphia, Pa.
Ninth in descent from John Alden [7].
86* REYNOLDS, GRACE GOODWIN FULLER
(Mrs. Benjamin), Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Ninth in descent from Edward Fuller [2 f ].
98. REYNOLDS, HELEN MURRAY, Wilkes Barre,
Pa,
Ninth in descent from Edward Fuller [2 J].
174. RHODES, JAMES MAURAN, Ardmore, Pa.
Eighth in descent from John Howland [13].
9% RICKETTS, ELIZABETH REYNOLDS (Mrs. R.
Bruce.), Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Eighth in descent from Edward Fuller [2J]«
148. RICKETTS, JEAN HOLBERTON, Wilkes Barre,
Pa.
Ninth in descent from Edward Fuller \2\\.
f 44. ROBBINS, CHANDLER, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
128. ROBBINS, HARRIET LOTHROP, New York,
N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
104
U2. ROBINSON, CHARLES PALMER, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from Edward Fuller [2 f ]♦
68. ROBINSON, IDA MAY FROST (Mrs, Frank
Tracy), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
5U RUNDALL, JULIA WARING ROBERTS (Mrs.
Clarence Aubrey), Brewster, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [14].
t% SAGE, MARGARET OLIVIA SLOCUM (Mrs.
Russell), New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Myles Standish [6].
lit. SCRUGHAM, MARGARET BRADFORD OTIS
(Mrs. William Warfeurton), Yonkers, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
73. SEABURY, FREDERICK CHANDLER, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
62. SEARS, CLINTON BROOKS, Major Corps En-
gineers, U. S. A*, Dttluth, Minn.
Tenth in descent from William Brewster. [4].
J32, SEGGERMANN, ANNA New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
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44. SEGGERMANN, FREDERICK KRUEGER, East
Orange, N. J.
Ninth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
131. SEGGERMANN, 3VIARTHA VANDERBURG
G LEA SON (Mrs. Henry), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
1 U SEGGERMANN, VICTOR AUGUST, New York,
N.Y.
Ninth in descent from Peter Brown [33].
116. SHUART, NELLA SUMNER PHILLIPS (Mrs.
William Herbert), Rochester, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from Isaac Alierton [5].
7. SLOCUM, JOSEPH JERMAIN, New York, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Myles Si&ndkh. [6].
108. SMITH, FRANK BIRGE, Washington, D. C
Eighth in descent from John Howland [13].
38. SMITH, JANE TERRY SHELDON (Mrs. Andrew
Heermance), New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
122. STIMSON, EDITH PARKER (Mrs. Daniel M.),
New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
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60. STRINGER, GEORGE ALFRED, Buffalo, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
U9. STRONG, ALMA BARTON, Golden's Bridge,
N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
64. STRONG, WILLIAM RIPLEY, Golden's Bridge,
N.Y.
Seventh in descent from William Bradford [2].
94. STRONG, WILLIAM WOLCOTT, Kenosha, Wis.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
53.' TERRY, JOHN TAYLOR, Tarrytown, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
\5U TERRY, LINDA MARQUAND (Mrs. Roderick),
New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
34. TERRY, REV. RODERICK, D.D., New York,
N.Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
136. TERRY, WYLLYS, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from William Bradford [2].
107
iU. TOTTEN, JOHN REYNOLDS, New York,
N.Y.
Ninth in descent from "William Brewster [4].
*73* TOWER, CHARLEMAGNE, JR., Philadelphia
Pa.
Ninth in descent from John Alden [7].
165. TRACY, JOHN ROBBINS, Stamford, Conn.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
105. VAN DYKE, HARRY WESTON, Washington,
D.G
Seventh in descent from John Howland [131
77. VINTON, CHARLES HARROD, KLD„ Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Eighth in descent from John Alden [7].
J54. WALKER, CORNELIA TRIMBLE MACY (Mrs.
Isaac H.), New York, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from John Tilley [i 6].
89. WARD, REGINALD HENSHAW, New York,
N.Y.
Seventh in descent from John Alden [7].
50. WARING, JANET, Yonkers, N. Y.
Ninth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [J4].
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49. WARING, JOHN THOMAS, Yonkers, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Stephen Hopkins [J 4].
\9. WARREN, GEORGE HERBERT, Yonkers, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Richard Warren [12].
35. WARREN, PELHAM WINSLOW, Yonkers, N. Y.
Seventh in descent from Richard Warren [J 2].
46. WASHBURN, JOHN HENRY, New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from Francis Cook [J 7].
24. WASHINGTON, CATHARINE LOUISA AD-
AMS (Mrs* Allan Cooper), New York, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Muffins [JO].
74. WEBB, WILLIAM WATSON, Rochester, N. Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
\59. WHITNEY, HENRY MELVILLE, Boston, Mass.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
145. WHITNEY, WILLIAM COLLINS, New York,
N.Y.
Eighth in descent from William Bradford [2].
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ANCESTORS OF MEMBERS.
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ANCESTORS OF MEMBERS.
JOHN ALDEN [7].
Bacon, Gotham, J 63.
Blood, John Batch, 90.
Coe, Henry Clark, 95.
Dodge (Mrs*), Katharine Hannah Aldan, 164.
Grinnell, Ix>uise Biis.?, i 5.
44 Nancy, \ 7.
Hatch, Frederic Horace, J 4 J.
Lawrence (Mrs.), Rebecca Elizabeth Spooner, 157*
Lee, Edward Clinton, 5.
Minton (Mrs.), Elizabeth Alice Miller, \ 42.
Pitkin (Mrs.), Sarah Howard Loomis, 93.
Reilly (Mrs.), Emma Tower, J 60.
Robinson (Mrs.), Ida May FrGSf, 68.
Seabury, Frederick Chandler, 73.
Stringer, George Alfred, 80.
Tower, Charlemagne, Jr., 173.
Vinton, Charles Harrod, 77.
Ward, Reginald Henshaw, Z9*
ISAAC ALLERTON [5].
Alierton, Walter Scott, 6.
Shtiart (Mrs.), Nella Sumner Phillips, U6.
1*3
WILLIAM BRADFORD [2].
Allen, Francis Olcott, 52.
Backus, Brady Electus, 27.
* Elizabeth Chester, J 20.
" J. Bayard, 4.
u Maria Averill, 4f .
Barney (Mrs*), Lilly Collins Whitney, 92.
Benjamin, Marcus, 57.
Bisseli,James Dougal, J03.
Brinley, Charles A., \ 72.
Bruggerhof (Mrs.), Lucy Otis, 67.
Butler (Mrs.), Louise Terry Collins, H3.
Child, Charles Shubael, 48.
Collins, Clarence Lyman, 39.
Dimock, Henry Farnam, 82.
" (Mrs.), Susan Cornelia Whitney, 84.
44 Susan Maria, 85»
Elwood (Mrs.), Mary Cheney, 8*.
Grinnell, George Bird, 29.
44 William Milne, 3.
44 William Morton, 30.
Hutchins, Augustus Schell, 18.
Waldo, 8.
i ■ *
James, Edward Christopher, \56y
Knower, Benjamin, 147.
Landon (Mrs.), Mary Grinnell, 3L
Leonard, Edward Cotrell, 63.
McKinstry, Charles Hedges, 76.
* Elisha Williams, 79.
114
Martin (Mrs.), Laura Grinnell, 32.
Newcomb, George Franklin, 45.
George Whitfield, J33.
* John Bearse, J39.
Page (Mrs.), Helen Jesup Grinnell, 33*
Prince, Le Baron Bradford, \ 38.
Read, John Meredith, 56.
Robbins, Chandler, f 44.
* Harriet Lothrop, 128.
Scrugham (Mrs.), Margaret Bradford Otis, U8.
Smith (Mrs.), Jane Terry Sheldon, 38.
Stimson (Mrs.), Edith Parker, i 22.
Strong, Alma Barton, J 49.
P William Ripley, 64.
P William Wolcott, 94.
Terry, John Taylor, 53.
" (Mrs.), Linda Marquand, J5J.
44 Roderick, 34.
44 Wyllys, J36.
Tracy, John Robbins, J 65.
Webb, William Watson, 74.
Whitney, Henry Melville, *59.
P William Collins, J45.
WILLIAM BREWSTER [4].
Alderson, Victor Clifton, J 25.
Bacon, Anna Fosdick, 7f ♦
44 Francis, \ 6.
« Rosalie, 72.
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Bacon, William Post Hawes, 70.
Bartiett, George Frederic Hunter, 96.
Bowman, George Ernest, J2J.
Brainard (Mrs.), Mary Jerusha Bulkelcy, J58.
Brewster, Benjamin, J 53.
44 Henry Colvin, 60.
44 Jane Eunice, 69.
44 Wadsworth Jackson, 16 J.
Brown (Mrs,), Anna Willis Lawrence, 9f.
Bulkeley, Morgan Gardner, \ 50*
Clark, Alonzo Howard, 75.
Fisher, Helen Mclinda, JO.
Freeman, George Wcntworth, \ 46.
Hoadley, James Henry, 9.
Hubbell, Annie Law, \\\.
Jackson, James Hathaway, 40.
Maynard (Mrs.), Mary Adams Beardsley, 124.
Minton (Mrs.), Mary Brewster, J 43.
Oglcsby (Mrs.), Margaret Antoinette Lennig, 83.
Rawson (Mrs.), Fannie Delphine Williams, \26.
Sears, Clinton Brooks^ 62.
Totten, John Reynolds, JJ4.
PETER BROWN [33].
Allen (Mrs.), Mary Louise Trumbull, f 04.
Moller (Mrs.), Helene Allen, 42.
Norton (Mrs.), Louise Engel Seggermann, 37.
Seggermann, Anna, 1 32.
44 Frederick Krueger, 44.
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Seggermann (Mrs.), Martha Vanderburg Gleasou, \ 3 J ,
44 Victor August, iU
JAMES CHILTON [24]*
Gleason (Mrs.), Annie White, 59.
FRANCIS COOK [*7J.
Leach, Frank "Willing, fTf.
" Josiah Granville, J 29.
Martin, Susan Taber, i 4.
Washburn, John Henry, 46*
EDWARD DOTY [40].
Doty, Paul Aaron, 88.
" William Henry, 22.
EDWARD FULLER [21].
Reynold's (Mrs.), Grace Goodwin Fuller, &6.
44 Helen Murray, 9S.
Ricketts (Mrs.), Elizabeth Reynolds, 99.
44 Jean Holberton, *48.
Robinson, Charles Palmer, H2.
STEPHEN HOPKINS [141
Andrus, Edwin Proctor, \ JO.
Binney, William Greene, i 30.
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Chittenden, Cornelia Katharine, 140*
u Edwin Sedgwick, 78*
Hartpence (Mrs,), Martha Morton, 58.
Hopkins, Sherburne Gillette, 66*
" Thomas Snell, 65*
Lombard, Josiah Lewis, J 37.
Morton, Levi Parsons, 6 J.
Rundall (Mrs.), Julia Waring Roberts, 5i,
Waring, Janet, 50*
44 John Thomas, 49.
JOHN ROWLAND [131
Adams, Edward Milton, U9.
Bryant, Percy, iOU
Gorham, George Congdon, \ 15*
Haskins, Charles Waldo, 162*
Hawes, Emory, 117*
44 James Anderson, 55*
Hill (Mrs*), Amelia Leavitt Foote, 21*
* Edward Bruce, 20.
Howland, Henry E., 54.
** Henry Raymond, f 00.
Little (Mrs.), Minnie Louise Norton, 47.
Lovell, Frank Hallett, J 68.
44 Frank Hallett, Jr., 170.
44 Isabel, 169*
Low, Abbot Augustus, 166*
44 Seth,*67.
Norton, Edward Loudon, 2.
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Rhodes, James Mauran, J 74.
Smith, Frank Birge, JOS.
Van Dyke, Harry Weston, *05.
WILLIAM MUIXOW [10].
McCartney (Mrs*), Catharine Elizabeth Searle, 23.
Morris (Mrs*), Ida Nesbitt Tucker, 26.
Washington (Mrs.), Catharine Louisa Adams, 24.
GEORGE SOULE [35].
Allen (Mrs*), Grace Mason Weston, T07.
Pe/kins, Elizabeth Bishop, \ 35*
" (Mrs.), Mary Emily Sowles, J 34.
MYLES STANDISH [6].
Greene (Mrs.), Margaret Maria Bromley, 152.
Sage (Mrs.), Margaret Olivia Slocum, 13.
Slocum, Joseph Jermain, 7.
JOHN TTLLEY [*6].
Greene, Edna Munson, 28.
44 Marshall Winslow, \2.
44 (Mrs.), Mary Gertrude Munson, 25*
* Richard Henry, 1.
Mitchell (Mrs.), Caroline Carson Woolsey, \55.
Munson, Henry Theodore, 43.
Walker (Mrs.), Cornelia Trimble Macy, J54.
119
RICHARD WARREN [12].
Bowers, Henry, f 09.
Davis (Mrs.), Helene Bartlett O'Lcary, 87.
Johnston, Mervyn Edward, \ 23*
Warren, George Herbert, J 9.
" Pelham Winslow, 35.
WILLIAM WHITE \\\\
Davis, Howland, 36.
Manson, Thomas Lincoln, Jr., 127.
EDWARD WINSLOW [3].
Kane (Mrs.), Fanny Randell Brandrcth, J 06.
Larkin (Mrs.), Lily Virginia Brandrcth, 97.
Potter (Mrs. , Helen Ward Brandrcth, J 02.
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MAIDEN NAMES OF MEMBERS WHO
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MADDEN NAMES OF MEMBERS WHO
ARE MARRIED WOMEN.
ADAMS, Catharine Louisa, 24.
(Mrs* Allan Cooper Washington.)
ALDEN, Katharine Hannah, \ 64.
(Mrs. O. Alonzo Dodge.)
ALLEN, Helene, 42.
(Mrs. Charles George Moller, Jr.)
BEARDSLEY, Mary Adams, J 24.
(Mrs. John Frederick Maynard.)
BRANDRETH, Fanny Randell, J06.
(Mrs. John I. Kane.)
BRANDRETH, Helen Ward, tVh
(Mrs. Frederick Potter.)
BRANDRETH, Lily Virginia, 97.
(Mrs. Francis Larkin, Jr.)
BREWSTER, Mary, J 43.
(Mrs. Henry Minton.)
BROMLEY, Margaret Maria, J52.
(Mrs. Charles Arthur Greene.)
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BULKELEY, Mary Jer usha, *58.
(Mrs* Leverett Brainard.)
CHENEY, Mary, 8*.
(Mrs* George May EiwoocL)
COLLINS, Louise Terry, t *3.
(Mrs. William Allen Butler, Jr.)
FOOTE, Amelia Leavitt, 2f .
(Mrs. Edward Bruce Hill.)
I FROST, Ida May, 68.
(Mrs. Frank Tracy Robinson.)
FULLER, Grace Goodwin, 86.
(Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds.)
GLEASON, Martha Vandcrfcurg, iZU
(Mrs. Henry Seggermann.)
GRINNELL, Helen Jesup, 33.
(Mrs. William Drummond Page.)
GRINNELL, Laura, 32.
(Mis. Newell Martin.)
GRINNELL, Mary, 3*.
(Mrs. Edward Hunter Landon.)
LAWRENCE, Anna Willis, 9J.
(Mrs. Charles Hilton Brown.)
124
LENNIG, Margaret Antoinette, 83.
(Mrs. Joseph Henry Oglesby.)
LOOmS, Sarah Howard, 93.
(Mrs. Albert Hastings Pitkin)
MACY, Cornelia Trimble, J54.
(Mrs. Isaac H. Walker.)
MARQUAND, Linda, W.
(Mrs. Roderick Terry.)
MILLER, Elizabeth Alice, U2.
(Mrs. Henry Brewster Minton.)
MORTON, Martha, 58.
(Mrs. Aianson Hartpence.)
MUNSON, Mary Gertrude, 25.
(Mrs. Richard Henry Greene.)
NORTON, Minnie Louise, 47.
(Mrs. Willard Parker Little.)
OT-EARY, Helene Bartlett, 87.
(Mrs. Langdon Shannon Davis.)
OTIS, Lucy, 67.
(Mrs. Edward Everett Bruggerhof.)
OTIS, Margaret Bradford, H8.
(Mrs. William Warburton Scrugham.)
125
PARKER, Edith, J22.
(Mrs, Daniel M. Stimson.)
PHILLIPS, Nelia Sumner, 1 16*
(Mrs. William Herbert Shuart.)
REYNOLDS, Elizabeth, 99.
(Mrs. R. Brace Ricketts.)
ROBERTS, Julia Waring, 51.
(Mrs. Qarence Aubrey RimdalL)
SEARLE, Catharine Elizabeth, 23.
(Mrs. William H. McCartney.)
SEGGERMANN, Louise Engel, 37.
(Mrs. Edward Loudon Norton.)
SHELDON, Jane Terry, 38.
(Mrs. Andrew Heermance Smith.)
SLOCUM, Margaret Olivia, 13.
(Mrs. Russell Sage.)
SOWLES, Mary Emily, f 34.
(Mrs. Newton Perkins.)
SPOONER, Rebecca Elizabeth, f 57.
(Mrs. Albert Effingham Lawrence.)
TOWER, Emma, i 60.
(Mrs. Thomas Alexander Reilly.)
126
TRUMBULL, Maty Louise, J04.
(Mrs* Henry Men.)
TUCKER, Ida Nesbitt, 26.
(Mrs. Tyler Seymour Morris.)
WESTON, Grace Mason, *07.
(Mrs. Walter Allen.)
WHITE, Annie, 59.
(Mrs* John Blanchard GleasooJ
WHITNEY, Lilly Collins, 92.
(Mrs. Charles Tracy Barney.)
WHITNEY, Susan Cornelia, 84.
(Mrs. Henry Farnam Dimock.)
WILLIAMS, Fannie Delphine, *26.
(Mrs. Warren Rawson.)
WOOLSEY, Caroline Carson, J55.
(Mrs. Edward Mitchell.)
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