A»8S OHDER OE TIIS POUHDERS MD PATRIOTS OIT MiERICA Extracts from the Constitution and By-laws etc. liiiok PKKSKNTEl) BY :;: l| I of tftc goxmAets vena gatriots of ^mmcu. Mrs. Julian Jamos 1912 of tftc '^oundzvs and patriots of ^iixjerica. New York State Society incorporated 18th March, 1896. New Jersey Society formed April 28th, 1896. Connecticut Society formed May 9th, 1896. Representatives of these three State Societies met in the Governor's Room, at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 13th day of May, 1896, and formed a General Court of the Order. %xix^cts txovx tlxje OTonBtttuttjcrrt and g^^gaixrs SHOWING BRIEFLY THE OBJECTS AND ORGANIZATION OF THE ORDER, THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP, AND THE METHOD OF ITS ATTAINMENT. gxjJcamMje. Recognizing Almighty God as guiding our ances- tors to this land, to establish of their descendants, not a Colony, but an independent sovereign Christian nation, destined by Him to occupy a commanding place among the nations of the earth, and to protect and defend liberty in all the Western Hemisphere, and recognizing that the foundations of the nation were laid in the perils and hardships of the first fifty years by our ancestor settlers of that period, rather than in the years that followed, and recognizing that necessary to that end for which our ancestors came was a patriot progeny in the time of the Revolution- ary struggle, out of which our country came to be independent and our nation came into being, for ourselves and those who may associate with us, we have formed an Association founded on descent from such ancestry and through their patriot descendants, and to that end, adopt the following Constitution: Art. II. Section 1. The object or purpose of the Order is : 1. To bring together and associate congenial men, whose ancestors struggled together for life and liberty, home and happiness, in this land, when it was a new and unknown country, and whose line of descent from them, comes through patriots who sustained the Colonies in the struggle for independence in the Revolu- tionary War. 2. To teach reverend regard for the names and history, character and perseverance, deeds and heroism, of the founders of this Country and their patriot descendants. 3. To teach that the purpose of the founders could have had no lasting result but for their patriot sons. 4. To inculcate patriotism in the associates and their descendants. 6. To discover, collect and preserve records, documents, manuscripts, monuments and his- tory relating to the genealogy and the history of the first Colonists and their ancestors and their descendants. a. To commemorate and celebrate events in the History of the Colonies and the Republic. 7. Other historical and patriotic objects and purposes. Art. III. Section 1. The Order consists of : 1. A General Court to be known as the General Court of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. 2. A society of the Order in each State, District or Territory of the United States, and in such Foreign State or Country in which it may be planted, each of which, prefixed with the name of the political division in which located, is to be known as The Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. 3. Such other societies of the Order as may be formed by the division of one society of the Order into two or more societies of the Order as authorized bj?- this Constitution. Art. VII. Section 7. The General Court shall have and exercise the following powers : SuBD. 4. Upon application of any nine Associates of the Order, residing in any State, District, Territory or Country, by Charter to constitute them, and those whom they may admit, pur- suant to the laws of the Order, into a society of the Order for the political division in which they reside and give to such society a name, and fix a time and place for the first meeting. Art. X. Section 3. Any society of the Order may organize chapters of its members to consist of not less than nine associates. ^fficcvs. THE GENEKAT, COURT. Art. VII. Section 1. The General Court shall con- sist of the Founders of the Order, also all actual and all past Governors - General, Deputy Governors- General, Chaplains - General, Secretaries - General, Treasurers-General, Attorneys-General, Registrars- General and Historians-General of the General Court ; also all actual Councilors-General during their respec- tive terms of office ; also all actual Governors, Deputy Governors, Chaplains, Secretaries, Treasurers, States Attorneys, Registrars and Historians of the several societies of the Order during their respective terms of office, provided, however, that no person shall be a member of the General Court unless he shall be at the time a member in good standing in one of the societies of the Order. Section 2. The Officers of the General Court shall be a Governor-General, a Deputy Governor-General, a Chaplain-General, a Secretary-General, a Treasurer- General, an Attorney-General, a Registrar-General, and a Historian-General each to hold office for one year, and until his successor is elected and installed, and nine Councilors-General, and each Councilor- General shall hold office for three years. Section 3. The officers of each society of the Order shall be a Governor, a Deputy-Governor, a Chaplain, a Treasurer, a Secretary, a States Attorney, a Regis- trar, an Historian, each to hold office for one year and until his successor is elected and installed, and nine Councilors, and each Councilor shall hold office for three years, and until his successor has been elected and installed, provided, however, that the society shall divide the Councilors first chosen into three classes, one class to serve one year, one two years, and one three years, and until their successors are elected and installed. The Registrar shall have custody of all applica- tions for membership and shall issue the same as required and provided by the Council. He shall receive the duplicate applications for membership, and examine, approve or disapprove thereof, and certify them in order and report thereon, either to the society or to its Council, or to a committee of the society, or otherwise, as by by-law the society may kave required. Before and after such report he may require of the applicant for membership correction •f his papers or further proofs. Art. IV. Section 3. Any man of the age of twenty- one years, of good moral character and reputation, and a citizen of the United States, is eligible to mem- bership in the Order, who is lineally descended in the male line of either parent from an ancestor who settled in any of the Colonies, now included in the United States of America, from the settlement of Jam.estown, May 13th, 1607, to May 13th, 1657, inclu- sive, and whose intermediate ancestors at the call of the Colonists, adhered as patriots to their cause through the Revolutionary War that followed, and which ended with the independence of the Colonies. Section 5. No person shall be admitted an Associ- ate of the Order, without previous investigation into, and ascertainment of his qualifications for member- ship, and each society may by by-law provide for the manner of such investigation and ascertainment, and of the mode of election of the members of such society. By-Laws. Section 9. (a) Every applicant for mem- bership, must apply in writing and m duplicate. His application must state his age, residence, occupation, place of business, and his post office address, and such other matters and things and information as the Council-General shall direct, and must be recom- mended by two associates, and the application must be presented to the Registrar of a society of the Order, and shall be accompanied by such historical information concerning his Colonial Ancestor and those in the line of descent to himself, as the society shall request, and the application shall be examined. as the By-laws of the particular society shall require, to ascertain the qualifications of the applicant, and when ascertained, shall be reported, approved or disapproved, either to the society or to its Council, or to one of them, for election, as the By-laws of such society shall provide. (J?) Such election must be by ballot, and one negative ballot in every five cast, or five negative ballots in all shall reject the applicant, and he cannot again apply for member- ship within one year thereafter, nor to any other society than that in which rejected, without its consent. *Blank forms for applications for membership may be procured from the Registrar of any State Society or from the Registrar-General directly or through any member of the Order. Application should be made in the State where applicant resides, if there be a Society there, otherwise to any State Society. gees atxd gites. By-Laws, Section 12. The initiation fee shall be five dollars, and the annual dues to be paid by all but life and honorary associates, shall be five dollars, to be paid on notice of election to membership, and thereafter shall be due and payable on the 19th day of April in each year, provided that the dues paid by an associate upon his election to membership after January 1st, and before April 19th, in any year, shall be in full of annual dues to April 19th of the year following. Art. IX. Section 2. Any Associate may commute his annual dues by paying at any time a sum equal to ten years' annual dues, and shall become a life member. All life members are exempt from pay- ment of dues. Art. IV. Section 7. Payment of the initiation fee and one year's dues and signing the Constitution, either in person or by proxy, all within three months after notice of election to membership, shall be necessary to consummate such membership, and omission so to do, shall, ipso facto, make void the election of the member. Section 8. An Associate of one society of the Order may be transferred to another society of the Order upon his written request, accompanied by a letter of recommendation and dimission from the society from which transferred, and under such regulations as the society to which he seeks transfer may prescribe. In consonance with the purpose of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America to further in every way historical and genealogical research, the Council-Gen- eral contemplates making suitable arrange- ments with the best professional genealog- ists in the various localities of the early settlements, so that their assistance may be procured by our members, and those seeking membership, at a moderate cost, and the greatest possible light thrown upon the sub- ject of their investigations. Further information as to this feature may be had by addressing the Registrar-General, or the Registrar of a State Society. ®tticcxs and (^onncxXoxs of GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Col. Frederick Dent Grant, New York City. DEPUTY governor-general. Edward Pliny Chapin, Springfield, Mass. secretary-general. John Quincy Adams, 101 W. 89th St., New York City. treasurer-general. Jonathan Flynt Morris, Hartford, Conn. attorney-general. Morris Patterson Ferris, 38 Park Row, N. Y. City. registrar-general. Howard Sumner Robbins, Hotel Endicott, N. Y. City. historian-general. Prof. Thomas Egleston, New York City. chaplain-general. Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom, Kearny, N. J. Edward N. G. Greene, New York City. Charles Broadwell Corwin, Plainfield, N. J . Edward Clinton Lee, Philadelphia, Peun. Henry Hall, New York City. Col. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins, New York City. Thomas Williams Bicknell, Providence, R. L Edward Payson Cone, New York City. Major Francis Lowell Hills, Wilmington, Del. Hon. James Jerome Belden, Syracuse, N Y. ^fficzxs mid (^ounciXoxs jcrf gem "^oxli Mocitivi: GOVERNOR. Col. Ralph Earl Prime, Yonkers, DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. Hon. William Winton Goodrich, Brooklyn. TREASURER. Matthew Hinman, 359 Broadway, New York City. SECRETARY. Henry Lincoln Morris, 253 Broadway, N. Y. City. STATES-ATTORNEY. Samuel Victor Constant, New York City. registrar. Edward Hagaman Hall, 14 Lafayette PL, N. Y. City. HISTORIAN. George Rogers Howell, Albany. ^ounMoxz: Gen. Ferdinand Pinney Earle, George Clinton Batcheller, Charles Albert Hoyt, Clarence Lyman Co] lins, Maj. Robert Emmet Hopkins, Walter Steuben Carter, John Winslow, Thomas Hubbard Stryker, Rear-Admiral Richard W. Meade, New York City. New York City. Brooklyn. New York Ciiy. Tarrytown. Brooklyn. Brooklyn. Rome. Philadelphia. ^fficzxs attxl (^onnciXoxs 0t governor. William Armstrong Halsey, deputy-governor. George Long Hutchings, chaplain. Elmer Severance Forbes, treasurer. Charles Broadwell Corwin, secretary. Washington Irving Lincoln Adams, states- attorney Frederic Allen Angell, registrar. George Washington Case, historian. Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom, (^oxxnciloxB, George Everett Halsey, James Hervey Lindslev, Henry Langdon Potter. Franklin Whetstone Hopkins, Jesse Platt, Julius Merrille Foote, William Raymond Weeks, Frederick Halsey Beach, Henry Randall Waite. Newark. East Orange. Jersey City. Plainfield. Montclair. Montclair. Jersey City. Kearny. Newark. East Orange. Linden. Alpine. Montclair. Newark. Newark. Dover. East Orange. (Dfticjets and (S/onnciloxs crt GOVERNOR. Col. Charles Alexander Jewell, Hartford. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. NoRRis Galpin Osborn, New Have«. SECRETARY-TREASURER. Charles Mather Glazier, Hartford. REGISTRAR. Edward Everett Sill, New Haven. HISTORI.AN. Thomas Jefferson Boardman, Hartford. CHAPLAIN. Rev. John Gayloru D.wenport, D.D., Waterbury. (^onnciloxs : John Emery Morris, Hartford. James Emery Brooks, Hartford. Major Frank William Mix, Stamford. Jonathan Flynt Morris, Hartford. William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hartford. Richard Sill Gkiswold, Old Lyme. Charles Abner Pelton, Middletown. Francis Durando Nichols, Black Rock. William Charles Russell, Hartford. ^jemxsigXxratxia ^jcrx:iettj : GOVERNOR. Capt. Samuel Emlen Meigs, Philadelphia. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. Christopher Columbus Wolcott, Philadelphia. TREASURER. Charles Wurts Sparhawk, 400 Chestnut St., Phila. SECRETARY. Edward Lang Perkins, 110 So. 4th St., Philadelphia. STATES- ATTORNEY. Frederick Augustus R. Baldwin, AUentown. REGISTRAR. Charles Field Haseltine. 1720 Chestnut St., Phila. HISTORIAN. Prof. James W. Moore, Easton. ^oxxnciXoxs : Rear- Admiral Richard W. Meade, Philadelphia. Capt. Samuel Emlen Meigs, Philadelphia. Edward Lang Perkins, Philadelphia. Charles Wurts Sparhawk, Philadelphia. William Howard Hart, Philadelphia. RoLLiN Henry Wilbur, So. Bethlehem. Charles Field Haseltine, Philadelphia. Christopher Columbus Wolcott, Philadelphia. Frederick Rogers Meigs, Philadelphia.