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SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE 
 REVOLUTION. 
 
 ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 The first State Society was organized in San Francisco, Cal., 
 July 5, 1876, under the name of " Sons of Revolutionary Sires," 
 which name was sulxsequently superseded by that now borne. 
 Largely through the efforts of this Society independent Societies 
 were formed in other States. The National Society was organ- 
 ized by delegates from the several State Societies meeting in 
 New York City, April 30, 1889. This meeting was held in 
 Fraunce's Tavern, in the "long room" in which Washington 
 bade farewell to his officers at the close of the Revolution. 
 
 PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. 
 
 The State Societies constitute the National Society. This 
 Society has a Constitution and By-Laws, a Board of Officers, and 
 a Legislative Body named the Congress, which is composed of 
 delegates from each of the State Societies. The Congress has 
 one regular meeting each year. A conclave of the whole Society 
 meets triennially at such plac*^'^ the National Board of Man- 
 agers may determine. * **• '■ -f' ?• 
 
 The Constitution of the National Society prescribes the ob- 
 jects, terms of eligibility to membership, the badge and colors of 
 the whole Society. While each State Society has absolute con- 
 trol of its own affairs, the Constitution of the National Society 
 is the supreme law of the whole, and the Constitution of each 
 Society conforms thereto. 
 
 It is thus seen that the whole organization closely follows 
 the model presented by the republic. 
 
OBJECTS OF THE ORGANIZATION. 
 
 These are set forth in the Constitution of the National So- 
 ciety as follows : 
 
 The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of the 
 men, who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American 
 Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people; to unite 
 and promote fellowship among their descendants; to inspire them and the 
 community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles 
 of the government founded by our forefathers ; to encourage historical 
 research in relation to the American Revolution ; to acquire and preserve 
 the records of the individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as 
 documents, relics and landmarks ; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by 
 appropriate memorials ; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent 
 events of the war ; to foster true patriotism ; to maintain and extend the 
 institutions of American freedom ; and to carry out the purposes expressed 
 in the preamble to the Constitution of our country and the injunctions of 
 Washington in his farewell address to the American people. 
 
 In no respect are these objects partisan, sectarian or com- 
 mercial, but purely patriotic, social and American. 
 
 ELIGIBILITY TO MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 The National Society's Constitution fixes the terms of eligi- 
 bility thus : 
 
 Any man shall be eligible to membership in this Society, who, being 
 of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of good repute in the 
 community, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times 
 unfailing in his loyalty to, and rendered actual service in the cause of, 
 American Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, militiaman 
 or minute man, in the armed forces of the Continental Congress or of any 
 one of the several Colonies or States ; or as a signer of the Declaration of 
 Independence ; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspond- 
 ence ; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial or Colonial Congress 
 or Legislature ; or as a Civil Officer, either of one of the Colonies or 
 States or of the National Government ; or as a recognized patriot who per- 
 formed actual service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great 
 Britain. 
 
 Organized wholh' for patriotic purposes, and presenting a 
 broad platform upon which all may stand, the Society commends 
 
itself to all Americans, and has gained the earnest support of 
 the foremost men of our country. North, south, east and west, 
 men eminent in business, finance, law, literature, science and 
 art are active members, enthusiastically laboring to advance the 
 objects of the Society and to promote its prosperity. 
 
 The following are the officers of 
 
 THE NATIONAL SOCIETY: 
 
 President-General, 
 
 General Horace Porter, 
 
 15 Broad St., New York City. 
 
 Vice Presidents-General, 
 
 General J. C. Breckinridge, 
 
 U. S. Army, Washington City. 
 
 Colonel Thomas M. Anderson, 
 
 U. S. Arm5^ Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 
 
 Mr. William Ridgely Griffith, 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Mr. Edwin S. Barrett, 
 Concord, Mass. 
 
 Hon. John Whitehead, 
 
 Morristown, N. J. 
 
 Secretary-General, 
 
 Mr. Franklin Murphy, 
 Newark, N. J. 
 
 Treasurer-General. 
 
 Mr. C. W. Haskins, 
 
 2 Nassau St. , New York Cit)^ 
 
 Registrar-General, 
 
 Mr. A. Howard Clark, 
 
 Smithsonian Institution, Washington City. 
 
 Historian-General, 
 
 Mr. Henry Hall, 
 
 New York City. 
 
Chaplain-General, 
 
 Rt. Rev. Charles Edw. Cheney, D. D., 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 FORMATION OF THE OREGON AND WASHINGTON SOCIETY. 
 
 Mainly through the eflforts of Colonel Thomas M. Anderson, 
 U. S. A., this Society was organized June 6, 1891, by about 
 twenty gentlemen of accepted eligibility meeting in Grand Army 
 hall, Portland, adopting a Constitution and By-Laws and electing 
 officers. 
 
 Four annual meetings have been held, besides several special 
 ones and the annual banquets. At the third meeting the Board 
 of Managers was instructed to revise the By-L,aws of the So- 
 ciety. This was done and reported to a special meeting of the 
 Society. The result was the adoption of the By-Laws now 
 existing. 
 
 The fourth annual meeting was mainly devoted to the ordi- 
 nary routine of business and the election of officers. The re- 
 ports made at this meeting showed the Societj' to be active and 
 prosperous, with a good, strong membership in each State. 
 
 President Anderson reported as follows : 
 
 annual report of the president of the oregon and washington 
 society of the sons of the american revolution. 
 
 Compatriots : 
 
 This is the fourth annual reunion of our Society. We organized with 
 fifteen charter members. We have today one hundred and forty names 
 upon our Roll of Honor. In our two progressive States of Oregon and 
 Washington we should be able to treble our numbers. As our object is pa- 
 triotic endeavor, we should spare no pains to bring all worthy, eligible 
 patriots within our fold. 
 
 The events of the past j'ear have proven the importance of patriotic 
 association. Our Societies have given repeated warnings as to the spread 
 of an anarchial spirit. These warnings have been unfortunately verified by 
 open resistance to the execution of the laws in many localities. In several 
 States recognized principles of government have been antagonized by 
 officials in high authority. In one instance State and Federal officials 
 were nearly brought into armed conflict. In the second city of the country 
 
a wild mob attacked the civil officers and soldiers of both the State and 
 Federal governments, shouting "To Hell with the Government of the 
 United States ! " We do not propose to discuss the causes which led to 
 these acts of mob violence, nor need we criticise the measures used to 
 suppress them. Neither need we debate the proposition that the Coxej' 
 Army and the Cleveland Armj^ should be allowed to fight it out. While 
 representing you at the Congress of the Society held in Washington, I saw 
 the Coxey Army driven from the steps of the Capitol by the police. These 
 men claimed that they, rather than the legislators assembled within repre- 
 sented the people. It was a striking object lesson, that, while a number of 
 gentlemen from every part of the Union had assembled to express their 
 adhesion to the patriotic principles transmitted to them by their fathers, 
 that the first attempt should be made almost in their presence to overawe 
 the Congress of the country by a show of force. In the last year more 
 blood has been shed in this Republic in upholding authority than in any 
 monarchy in Europe. Is all this nothing to us ? Is it nothing to us that 
 the red flag of anarchy has been displayed in our streets, that legislative 
 halls have been barricaded by contending factions, and that several of the 
 great highways of the country were interrupted by force and violence ? 
 
 A more insidious evil now attracting universal attention is official 
 corruption. It has become so manifest that the true principles of Repub- 
 lican Government should be taught to the people that a Society of Civics 
 has been formed with branches all over the older States, which are now 
 engaged in an active propaganda of patriotism. The eff'orts of these Asso- 
 ciations are now mainly directed to the study of the problem of municipal 
 reform. It is not for us to debate what legislation should be adopted to 
 remedy existing evils. It is our assumption that if we can awaken 
 patriotic motives an intelligent patriotic action will -follow. What we 
 should do is to pour oil on the troubled waters. We should by all proper 
 means correct the misapprehensions of the misguided, and, on the other 
 hand, give our moral support to the Government of our countr}\ When 
 children at school are given a mathematical problem they are also given a 
 rule by which to work it out. Yet they invariably want an example. It is 
 often by the example that they are made to comprehend the application of 
 the rule. Hence we should not rest content with proclaiming the bar- 
 ren idealities of statecraft, but we should give examples of patriotic work 
 and self sacrifice in the lives of men who proved themselves not only great 
 but good. It is for this reason that we urge the celebration of national 
 anniversaries. 
 
 Within the year excellent Chapters have been organized at Seattle 
 and Spokane. The gentlemen who have organized these Chapters deserve 
 great credit. Both of these organizations now have the numbers which 
 entitle their local Presidents to seats at the meetings of the Board of Di- 
 rectors. 
 
 We have taken a new departure this year in sending speakers to the 
 public schools to explain the significance of our national holidays. 
 
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 In conclusion I would say, compatriots, that it is not enough that our 
 fathers left us a Republican Government and a Union of Free States. " It 
 is not enough to be thus, but safely thus." Here our duty begins. It is 
 our duty to preserve and perpetuate. If "eternal vigilance is the price of 
 liberty," apathy and neglect open the gates to ruin and dishonor. 
 
 THOMAS M. ANDERSON, 
 
 President. 
 
 AT THE BANQUETS. 
 
 These were held at the Hotel Portland and were presided 
 over by the President of the Society. 
 
 On the occasion of February 22, 1894, to the toast "The 
 Man and the Day," Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Esq., responded in most 
 appropriate and eloquent words, outlining the character of Wash- 
 ington and showing wh)^ Americans should observe this anni- 
 versary. 
 
 "The Comrades of '76" was responded to by Sanderson 
 Reed, Esq., in glowing language, portraying the enduring links 
 of friendship, that, forged during the long struggle, bound the 
 men of '76 to each other and to their ultimate purpose. 
 
 Mr. E. W. Allen responded to "The Little Hatchet," in a 
 quaint, humoroits manner that all most heartily appreciated. 
 
 To the toast "The Patriotic Daughters," R. W. Thompson 
 responded. He paid the patriotic women of the Revolution a 
 just and merited tribute, and easily showed that their sacrifices 
 on the altar of Liberty were as necessary and were as promptly 
 and heroically rendered as any made by their fathers, husbands, 
 brothers and lovers. 
 
 To the sentiment "The Pioneer Patriots," Capt. O. C. 
 Applegate spoke as follows : 
 
 Mr. President and Compatriots : 
 
 As a native son of Oregon, and one who experienced much of the 
 primitive life of the early days, an eye witness, as it were, to the planting 
 and development of the American empire upon the Pacific, it may not be 
 inappropriate for me to speak briefly upon the subject of " Pioneer Pa- 
 triots." 
 
In a land still filled with the memorials of late and tragic conflict ; 
 in a home of peace and plenty, won by the heroism and through the pri- 
 vations of pioneer life ; in a country born amid the fires of revolution and 
 saved through the anguish of civil war ; in a land of noble memories, of 
 heroic aspirations and untold possibilities, we come to plight our faith 
 anew, not as party men, divided upon questions of National policy or con- 
 tending through trivial causes, but as the descendants of patriotic ances- 
 tors, cherishing their self-sacrifice and devotion, hoping to do a loj'al part 
 in keeping ever alive in the hearts of the American people the sublime 
 principles our forefathers asserted, and in transmitting them to a grateful 
 posterity. 
 
 Every individual who can appreciate the genius of American liberty, 
 and upon this intelligent appreciation rests the success and perpetuity of 
 our benign Government ; every one who can conceive of the hard demands 
 upon human life within the congested communities of the Old World ; 
 every citizen whose lot has fallen with that of Washington, Adams and 
 Hamilton, of Benton, Douglas and Lincoln, as a beneficiary of our noble 
 constitution, who realizes that beneath the shadow of our starry flag has 
 grown to marvelous fruition the promise of liberty, of personal security 
 and material development indulged in by our patriotic ancestors, knows 
 that the grateful hearts of appreciative American citizens turn loyally to- 
 wards the pioneers of our political faith, who, amid the sombre forests of 
 New England and along the sunny slopes of Virginia and Carolina, whis- 
 pered the first accents of infant American freedom. 
 
 Pioneer patriots in the cabin of the Mayflower, thousands of miles 
 away from home and kindred, on the borders of a vast and almost un- 
 known continent, "covenanted and combined themselves together into a 
 civil body politic," thus asserting with a full consciousness of their might}' 
 import those principles of dependence and independence — dependence 
 upon one another and independence from kingly authority — which, meet- 
 ing with ready response all along the coast to the remotest southern bor- 
 der, developing throughout the checkered period of Colonial history, 
 finally culminated in the assertion of the right of separation from the 
 Mother Country and inspired our forefathers with patriotic ardor amid the 
 fiery conflicts of the Revolution. 
 
 They sought, away from soulless power, 
 
 On the rugged, rock-bound strand. 
 Release and refuge from kinglj' greed 
 
 That cursed their native land. 
 They cast the germ in the virgin soil 
 
 Of Liberty's spreading tree, 
 To shield the land from tyrannous might 
 
 And bloom in the years to be. 
 
 A brighter day for mankind's weal 
 
 In Plymouth's woods began, 
 For the Pilgrims sought these solitudes 
 
 With faith in God and man, 
 
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 To live and worship as they chose, 
 
 Unscared by pope or king, 
 And the noble words the Pilgrims spoke 
 
 Have never ceased to ring. 
 
 How the expansion of the geat Republic has within even the brief 
 period of a human lifetime encompassed half a continent ! The great 
 American desert of our boyhood has become the home of a widely ex- 
 tended domestic life, the theatre of industry and enterprise, the scene of 
 an advanced and brilliant civilization. Beneath the protecting egis of the 
 American flag, cheered by the traditions of an honored past, the westward 
 march of civilization has only been stayed by the surge of old ocean 
 breaking at the feet of the intrepid and resolute pioneer. 
 
 Shall we not do honor to the pioneer patriots of the west, the cour- 
 ageous men and noble women who endured a six months' journey across 
 the great plains, through the rugged defiles of mountains, over unbridged 
 streams and through the trackless wilderness, 
 
 " To see a home from shadowy forests won 
 In youth and beauty, wedded to the sun ? " 
 
 Through their sublime faith, ceaseless exertions and self-sacrificing 
 courage we enjoy on this coast to-day the blessings of peace and security, 
 within the beneficent bonds of National union, for they never lost, amid 
 all their sorrows, labors and wanderings, their identity as American citi- 
 zens. 
 
 In the midst of plenty and tranquility, and in the glow of an ad- 
 vanced civilization, how difl&cult it is to realize the stern realities of the 
 early days. The enlightenment and abundance about us can give us no 
 suggestion of the hardships of the initial time ; no sign of the determined 
 struggle of the crude possessor to maintain his inherited domain ; no evi- 
 dence of the months of weary waiting for news from loved ones beyond 
 half a continent's expanse ; of flour at a dollar a pound and salt vv'orth its 
 weight in gold ; of buckskin clothing and home made shoes ; of wooden 
 plows and hoes and pitchforks ; of the oft repeated incursions of the cir- 
 cuit rider, and the universality of the quilting bee ; of generous border 
 hospitality and prompt but effective pioneer justice. 
 
 Let us learn to treasure the memory of the pioneers of the Pacific, 
 worthy followers of the noble men who achieved our national independ- 
 ence, who planted upon the shores of the western main those twin branches 
 of the banyan tree of our common country, Oregon and Washington, as 
 we see their material handiwork crumbling to dust about us, and the hoary 
 veterans of an intrepid race passing away forever. 
 
 " I,et there be light in the western v.-ilds," 
 The Spirit of Progress said, 
 And thousands came on the devious way, 
 Where the rough old woodsmen led. 
 
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 They crossed the mountain's beetling crags, 
 
 And the deserts brown and bare, 
 And on the shores of the western main 
 
 Thej' planted the old flag there. 
 
 As the blue of the clouds and blue of the waves 
 
 Mingle and blend in the sea, 
 It mingled its colors with the western clouds 
 
 To herald the march of the free. 
 And the echoing thud of the woodsman's axe, 
 
 And the roar of his trusty gun, 
 Told with a voice that woke up the woods 
 
 How the westerners' battles were won. 
 
 Mr. E. D. Curtis, speaking to the closing sentiment, "Good 
 Night," congratulated the compatriots upon the prosperity of the 
 Society, the success and pleasure of the meeting, and expressed 
 the hope that all should meet again. 
 
 THE FOURTH ANNUAL BANQUET. 
 
 This was a most enjoyable affair. The dining room was ap- 
 propriately and beautifully decorated, and music throughout the 
 banquet contributed to the pleasure of the guests. 
 
 Col. Thomas M. Anderson, President of the Society, pre- 
 sided during the after-dinner speaking, and acquitted himself in 
 his usual happy manner. 
 
 Maurice McKim, Esq., responded to the toast "The Day 
 We Celebrate " in a few well chosen sentences that proved to be 
 an auspicious opening to the occasion. 
 
 Hon. H. H. Northup spoke to the sentiment " What Our 
 Forefathers Eeft Us," as follows : 
 
 The skillful mariner bound across the trackless sea finds his way bj' 
 chart and compass. But not on these alone does he rely, for daily as the 
 sun touches the meridian with unclouded sky, does he take his observation 
 to know whether the elements have driven him from his true course. 
 
 And on occasion like this, sir, a century after the flag of freedom has 
 been unfurled, when the sons of patriots meet together to do honor to their 
 sires, it is fitting that we inquire "What Our Forefathers Left Us" to 
 know whether we have been driven by the elements of discord and un- 
 rest from the true course laid down by them. And upon this occasion, sir, 
 
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 I can onl}' name a few of the man}' priceless privileges they left for us 
 to enjoy. 
 
 They have left us a memory — a memory of sacrifices and heroic strug- 
 gles. 
 
 Other events in more recent years ma}' bring the anniversarj' of san- 
 guinary conflict, }'et none can teach higher lessons in patriotism or form a 
 brighter page in American history than those events which brought forth 
 the mighty men of '76. 
 
 They have left us a memory of personal valor and of many a well 
 fought field ; a memory of Warren and of Bunker Hill ; of Allen and of 
 Ticonderoga ; of Stark and of Bennington ; of Green and of Brandywine ; of 
 Marion and Sumpter and of the Carolinas ; of Washington and of Tren- 
 ton ; of the trials of Valley Forge and the triumphs of Yorktown. 
 
 They have left us the memory of that invincible patriot, Patrick 
 Henry, whose impassioned words sound loud and clear throtigh the cen- 
 tur}' — words known to every American youth : 
 
 What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear or peace 
 so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty 
 God! I know not what course others may take, but, as for me, give me liberty or give 
 me death. 
 
 But they have left us not simply a memory — they have left us more. 
 They have left us a declaration of rights, a declaration linked forever with 
 the name of Jeflferson, and more sacred to the cause of liberty than the 
 famous Magna Charta wrested from King John by the barons of England. 
 
 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ; that they 
 are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, 
 liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are insti- 
 tuted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 
 
 Here in one short paragraph is declared the equality of man and the 
 right of the people to self government, and the doctrine that " The King 
 is the State " is forever laid in the dust. A more priceless treasure was 
 never given to any people at any time, save only the written revelation of 
 divine truth by the living God. 
 
 But this declaration was for many generations a form of glittering 
 words, until at last its sublime principles entered into the hearts of the 
 American people and it became a living truth to every man, woman and 
 child of whatever race, creed or color in the American Republic. 
 
 They have also left us the famous Ordinance of 1787 — that solemn 
 compact entered into by the people of the Northwestern Territory, then 
 existing and thereafter to exist, of the one part, and the thirteen original 
 States of the other part. 
 
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 This Ordinance declared, among other things, that within the boun- 
 daries of said territory slaverj' and involuntary servitude, except as a pun- 
 ishment for crime, should forever be prohibited, and that " religion, mor- 
 ality and knowledge being necessary to good government, schools and the 
 means of education shall forever be encouraged." 
 
 The principles laid down in this Ordinance that governed this great 
 territory are some of the priceless treasures left to the American people. 
 
 They have also left us a written constitution — a document framed 
 with such judgment and wisdom, and so well adapted to the purposes for 
 which it was designed, that its great merit is far beyond the power of my 
 feeble tongue to express. Said Winthrop : 
 
 It is like one of those rocking stones erected by the ancient Druids, which the 
 finger of a child can shake to its center, but which the might of an army can not move 
 from its place. 
 
 The constitution in some of its provisions has been the subject of 
 much discussion and contention, particularly in regard to the right of 
 secession, but the construction that it is an indissoluble tie, forever binding 
 together the States of the Union into one Nation, has been sealed with the 
 blood of the American people and is beyond recall. 
 
 They have left us the work of a Hamilton — that great genius called by 
 Washington to be the first Secretary of the Treasury — whose financial skill 
 brought the new government out of its difiiculties and into prosperity and 
 wealth. 
 
 Said Webster in speaking of him : 
 
 He smote the rock of national resource and abundant streams of revenue burst 
 forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet. The 
 fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jupiter was hardly more sudden than the finan- 
 cial system of the United States as it burst from the conception of Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 And, in conclusion, our fathers left us the spirit of liberty and the 
 work of showing to the world that Republican governments are best for 
 all peoples. So let us live that we shall not be unworthy of our sires, and 
 so that we can hand down to the countless generations yet to come, who 
 shall occupy the places that we now fill, the priceless inheritance left by 
 our fathers. 
 
 " Washington as a Moral Force " was responded to by Hon. 
 George H. Williams, who spoke as follows : 
 
 A meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution to commemorate 
 the birthday of Washington overwhelms the mind with patriotic and inspir- 
 
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 ing emotions. We are separated by more than a hundred years with their 
 deepening shadows from the day we celebrate, but through these shadows 
 with meteoric splendor shines the fame of Washington and of the men and 
 events with which his fame is associated. 
 
 Our meeting brings before us with pictorial clearness the high and 
 fearless resolves of Revolutionary assemblies, the sacrifices, sufferings and 
 successes of a consequent war, examples of physical and moral courage, 
 and all that galaxy of glorious achievements which made the United States 
 a free and independent nation. 
 
 Washington at the time of his death was said to be " first in war, first 
 in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen," and it is safe to add 
 that in the fullness and roundness of a perfect manhood he stands first in 
 the list of modern statesmen and warriors. I do not mean to say that he 
 was the greatest soldier or the greatest statesman of modern times, but I 
 mean to say that those physical, intellectual and moral qualities which are 
 necessary to an exalted character were more happily blended in him than 
 in any other man mentioned in modern history. One element of moral 
 force is personal courage or fearlessness in the face of danger. Brave men , 
 though brave in a bad cause, are respected by others, and deeds of personal 
 daring in battle and elsewhere have been favorite themes of song and 
 story. Learning, wisdom and goodness command the admiration of man- 
 kind, but admiration rises into hero worship for those who repose them- 
 selves to death in the ranks of fighting armies. Washington at an early 
 day, in the campaign against the French forts in western Pennsylvania, 
 established his reputation for personal courage, and was never deterred 
 from the performance of his Vi'hole duty as a soldier by the apprehension 
 that his life was in danger. 
 
 Another element of moral power is good judgment. This is the 
 greatest of all talents for one bearing public responsibilities and it is the 
 one least appreciated by the public. That which is showy is more attrac- 
 tive than that which is solid. Good judgment as to any matter implies 
 comprehension of everything affecting that matter, and no brilliancy of 
 speech or action will make up for the lack of this judgment in the manage- 
 ment of public affairs. Washington's judgment was of the first order, as his 
 success in military and civil life abundantly proves. He must have been 
 endowed with an extraordinary faculty of deciding wisely to have con- 
 ducted the Revolution to a successful issue ; to lead thirteen feeble Colonies 
 against a great and resourceful enemy through the discouragements and 
 defeats of a seven years' war necessarily required great foresight, indom- 
 itable zeal and excellent judgment. Washington's administration during 
 the formative period of our Federal Union was a marvel of wisdom and 
 skill. He was like a mariner upon an unexplored sea without guide or 
 compass. He had no precedents to follow. To organize the new govern- 
 ment, to devise ways and means for its support, to establish relations with 
 foreign countries, to harmonize federal authoritv with the autonomv of the 
 
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 States and to put the whole machinery of the government into successful 
 operation demanded the most enlightened and comprehensive judgment. 
 Contrary to the wishes of his countrymen, at the end of two presidential 
 terms he retired to private life with a farewell message which deserves to 
 be ranked with the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 More effective than all else to make the moral power of Washington 
 a force was his acknowledged goodness. Greatness allied to vice may tem- 
 porarily delight the multitude, but greatness must be allied to virtue to 
 exert a lasting and beneficial influence in the world. Washington's virtues 
 were so widely known and appreciated that the English Lord Byron was 
 led to exclaim : 
 
 Where may the weary eyes repose 
 When gazing on the great, 
 Where neither guilty glory glows, 
 Nor despicable state ? 
 Yes, one— the first, the last, the best, 
 The Cincinnatus of the West, 
 Whom envy dared not hate, 
 Bequeathed the name of Washington 
 To make man blush there was but one. 
 
 Individual moral force is the influence produced by a combination of 
 courage, wisdom and goodness, as exemplified in the actings and doings of 
 the individuals. Moral force may co-exist with the person from whom it 
 proceeds, or it may survive and produce eflfects after such person has 
 passed out of existence. Our attention is arrested by one notable instance 
 of Washington's influence after he was dead. He was unanimously elected 
 President in 1788, was unanimously re-elected in 1792, and would have been 
 unanimously elected for a third term ia 1796 if he had consented to become 
 a candidate. This refusal of Washington to accept the office of President 
 for a third term made a precedent which has become a sacred and inviol- 
 able canon in the political code of the United States. Nothing is said in 
 our written Constitution about the ineligibility of a President for a third 
 term, but the moral force of Washington's example has made a third term 
 for a President next to an impossibility. General Grant, whose popularity 
 was unbounded, as a candidate for a third term was defeated in the Repub- 
 lican convention of 1880 by the moral force of Washington's example, and 
 if nominated he would in all probabilitj^ have been defeated at the election 
 upon that ground. There is a lesson of great value in Washington's refusal 
 of the Presidency for a third term. First, it proves that men can be gov- 
 erned by moral force as well as by physical power. More than sixty rail- 
 lions of people accept the act of one man long since passed away as bind- 
 ing upon them, with nothing but popular belief in the wisdom of that act 
 to enforce its authority. Again, it is instructive in showing that great and 
 good deeds have an enduring vitality in the hearts and memories of man- 
 kind. Ambition and selfishness and sin in every form abound, but they 
 stand with uncovered heads in the presence of disinterested and patriotic 
 
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 devotion to country. When Washington rejected the ofl&ce of President 
 for a third term "he builded better than he knew." He erected a safe- 
 guard for Republican institutions. All our Presidents since Washington 
 have been ambitious to be re-elected. Six of them have sought and 
 obtained a second term, and there is reason to believe that they — or some 
 of them — would have tried by the use of official influence or otherwise to 
 secure a third term and probably more terms if they had not been deterred 
 by the example of Washington. Office holding generally breeds an insati- 
 able desire for more. Without any limitation upon the eligibility of the 
 President, there would be danger that an ambitious and unscrupulous in- 
 cumbent might perpetuate his official existence and establish upon the 
 ruins of the Constitution an oligarchy of office holders. Rotation in office 
 under reasonable restrictions is the true theory of Republican government. 
 Washington, by the moral force of his example, has compelled the prac- 
 tice to conform to this theory. To look out from the scramble for office in 
 these days, to the retirement of Washington when the people wanted him 
 to stay, is as refreshing as the sight of a green field in a desert of drifting 
 sands. 
 
 When the Constitution of the United States was formed there was a 
 wide spread and powerful opposition to its adoption. Each Colony under 
 the Confederation was quite independent of the others, and many saw, or 
 thought they saw in the Constitution, a dangerous consolidation of power 
 in a centralized government. Hamilton, Madison, Jay and others pub- 
 lished papers advocating its adoption, but these arguments, though learned 
 and eloquent, hardly reached the minds of the common people. Washing- 
 ton was known everywhere and his patriotism and wisdom were universally 
 acknowledged. People who had no time or opportunity to study the ques- 
 tions involved accepted the judgment of Washington. They favored the 
 new Constitution because they knew he favored it. If he had opposed it 
 it would not have been adopted. Time has approved the judgment of 
 Washington as well as the wisdom of the men who relied upon it and mag- 
 nified beyond measure our indebtedness to him for his influence in this 
 critical period of our country's history. 
 
 Washington's administration was held together and made a success 
 by the moral force of his majestic character. Jefferson was Secretary of 
 State and Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, both gentlemen, but bit- 
 terly opposed to each other in their political views. Jefferson contended 
 for the sovereign right of the States, and Hamilton for the supremacy of 
 the Federal government. When the French Revolution broke out, the ad- 
 herents of Jefferson favored the ideas upon which it was founded, and the 
 adherents of Hamilton denounced them as subversive of all government. 
 Party feeling ran high upon the question. Jefferson's party was charged 
 with a desire to import into the United States the radical doctrine of revo- 
 lutionary France, and Hamilton's part}' was charged with a desire to im- 
 port into the United States the principles of monarchial England. Discord 
 and distraction raged on all sides but thej- were overawed and neutralized 
 
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 by the wisdom and justice of Washington. He spoke to the angry passions 
 and they obeyed his voice. He overcame those elements of discord by 
 moral power which were beyond the reach of physical force. 
 
 While Washington was President, Congress passed an act imposing a 
 tax upon whiskey, which produced a formidable insurrection in western 
 Pennsylvania and other parts of the country. Thousands of armed men 
 were massed together to resist the collection of this tax. The Federal 
 government was new, its powers indefinite and its authority hardly known 
 to the people, and this insurrection was to be the test of its adequacy to 
 the ends for which it was created. Officers and troops sent against the 
 insurgents were driven back, and it seemed for a time as though the ene- 
 mies of law and order would succeed. Washington determined to put 
 himself at the head of the government forces and went into Pennsylvania 
 for that purpose. Stricken by the movement of the President with the 
 conviction that further resistance was useless the rebellion melted away 
 and disappeared, and the supremacy of the law was established. This 
 shows that ideas sometimes win victories where arms are ineffectual. 
 
 During the administration of John Adams our country became in- 
 volved in a serious controversy with France. Hostilities had commenced 
 and a great war was impending. In this emergency all eyes turned toward 
 Washington, then in retirement at Mount Vernon. President Adams, in 
 response to the voice of the people, called upon Washington to take com- 
 mand of the national forces, and he, at great personal sacrifice, accepted 
 the position. When the weight of Washington's renown as a warrior and 
 statesman were thrown into the scales France lowered her pretensions and 
 proceeded without delay to re-establish amicable relations with this coun- 
 try. These prominent instances to which I have referred are only illlus- 
 trations of the thousands of ways in which the moral influence of Wash- 
 ington worked for good. All his speeches and writings and his whole 
 public life were aglow with intense devotion to his country. His influence 
 was a steady, vitalizing and improving force. Our duty as Sons of the 
 American Revolution is to cherish and keep alive this influence. Our 
 heritage comes to us with this responsibility. We want more of Washing- 
 ton's courage in our government, more of his purity among our public 
 men, and more of his ardent patriotism among our people. Our Republic 
 will be safe in the hands of men who follow in the footsteps of Washington. 
 
 ' ' The story of the Past a I,esson for the Present ' ' was pre- 
 sented by John F. Gowey, Esq., who said : 
 
 Mr. President and Compatriots : 
 
 Our gallant sires ! We drink to them 
 
 Who blazed the way with loyal zest, 
 And gave to Union's diadem 
 
 The myriad jewels of the West. 
 
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 One can hardly be expected to give utterance to words that are in 
 accordance with the spirit of the occasion and at the same time present 
 new thoughts for consideration. The verbiage may be changed and the 
 metaphor varied, yet the truisms of live and love, of philosophy and gov- 
 ernment remain the same. Love and hope, despair and passion are as old 
 as time. The seeds of truth, honor, virtue and courage, the sentiments of 
 loyalty and patriotism, were sown in the dim domain of antiquity and have 
 existed since man became conscious of a living soul. 
 
 Looking backward over the centuries, gleaning for types of all that 
 concern the deep things of life, we are compelled to say that of old there 
 were statesmen as great, philosophers as wise, captains as valiant and peo- 
 ples as liberty loving as can be found in modern times. Not that man is 
 incapable of growth and development and has not improved individuallj^ 
 and collectively, for history is but the record of his progress along the 
 lines for which " governments were instituted among men." 
 
 It has been said that liberty has become a hackneyed subject and 
 freedom worn commonplace ; this could be answered as was one who 
 sneered at what he termed the " cant of patriotism." "I quite agree," 
 said the speaker, " that the cant of patriotism is a bad thing, but I can tell 
 him a worse — the r^'cant of patriotism — which I will gladly go along with 
 him in reprobating when he shows me an example of it." 
 
 For one I still believe in the age of faith and freedom, still go over in 
 loving remembrance the bead roll of our nation's honored names and yet 
 imagine that in the life of Washington we have the loftiest example of pa- 
 triotism that the world can show, and in the record of the birth of these 
 United States a most salutary lesson in all that ennobles the citizen and 
 makes a nation great. The men of the past, of our Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary period, have had thrown around their sacred forms the halo that 
 history gives to the noble and great of all ages. The shadows of time have 
 made saints of some and heroes of them all. Their petty vices, faults of 
 mind and infirmities of temper have all been hidden or swept away by 
 " time's eflFacing finger," and they stand before us and in the pages of his- 
 tory as Godlike men cast in an heroic mold. The intrepid action, the 
 noble character alone remain for our contemplation and inspiration. 
 
 Of all man's institutions history records no grander hope for humanity 
 than the government our fathers gave to mankind ; time's annals fail to 
 show so bright a bow of promise to the sons of men ; they spoke for it, 
 prayed for it, fought for it, died for it, and with us rests its perpetuity. 
 
 Well has it been said " It is a question for us now, not of the found- 
 ing of a new government, but of the preservation of one already old ; not 
 of the formation of an independent power, but of the purification of a 
 nation's life; not of the subjection of a foreign foe, but of the subjection 
 of ourselves. The dangers of to-day come from within, the love of power, 
 the lust for gold, the weakening of faith, the decay of public virtue ; these 
 
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 are the perils that threaten our future ; these are the enemies we have to 
 fear. ' ' 
 
 With increased devotion we must be baptized anew in the waters of 
 freedom, scan again the utterances of the patriotic sages, "be true to the 
 teachings of our history, and love our country before all other things," if 
 the Republic is to live among the nations of the earth. 
 
 I do not know that the hands are weak, 
 
 Or the brain unused to plan ; 
 That the tongue delays the truth to speak, 
 
 Or the foot to march in the van ; 
 But I know full well that we need not seek 
 
 111 vain for a Minute Man. 
 
 In these closing years of the century wherein we see so much of strife 
 and bitterness between the so-called classes of society, when we hear on 
 the one hand of the greed and tyranny of corporations, and on the other 
 read of strikes and labor riots, we are reminded that history is mainly 
 given to recording the struggles of men and the continual changes in the 
 relations of classes. The lesson taught is " that popular government rests 
 on public character," and that liberty and law, or liberty and order, must 
 go together ; that there can be no safety in the one without the other. 
 
 In the midst of the new and ever changing social and economic ques- 
 tions which perplex and agitate the public mind ; in the swift whirl of po- 
 litical strife and the ceaseless din of the mad race for wealth ; amid the 
 clouds and shadows that envelope the relations of capital and labor, the 
 desire for mental and material improvement must not be taken for the 
 murmurings of the discontented, or the agitation of labor as a protest 
 against free institutions. Let not the timid be disheartened nor the pes- 
 simist encouraged by such manifestations. These problems are not con- 
 fined to our shores nor to our time ; they are as widespread as civilization 
 itself, and in the future as in the past will continue to engross the best 
 thought of man. 
 
 There can never be a final solution of questions affecting our material 
 interests. Our conditions are constantly changing, and, with the advent of 
 new forces and new ideals, come new problems. " There will never come 
 some one epoch of time when mankind will, so to speak, be able to fold its 
 hands and take to enjoying itself and having a universal ' good time,' ' ' such 
 a state of affairs were to do away with all that gives an impetus to life 
 and all incentive to human action. 
 
 The labor and social questions of the present day need elevation to a 
 higher plane, for without a distinctly ethical, not to say religious, purpose 
 that runs with and sways the current of our lives, we lose the hope, the in- 
 spiration that gives to life its real value and makes of us something more 
 than mere food and raiment-getting machines. 
 
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 The history of the past throws light upon the difficulties of the pres- 
 ent, and the sacrifices and achievements of the sires should incite the sons 
 to renewed effort in maintaining and building up the fabric of government 
 and national life laid down by them. 
 
 So let us perform the full measure of our duty by deed and word, that 
 amid the antogonisms of party strife, the evolution of new and immeasur- 
 able forces in life and the varying social phenomena of the day, one star 
 shall shine serene in our country's firmament, undimmed by selfish fear, 
 undaunted by faction's cry and radiant with patriotic fire — the star of the 
 Sons of the American Revolution. 
 
 Colonel James Jackson, U. S. Army, a member of the New 
 York Society Sons of the American Revolution, responded to 
 "Patriotic Societies the Promoters of National Sentiment," as 
 follows : 
 
 In the last decade there has been a large addition to the number of 
 Patriotic Societies and an increased eflFort upon the part of those already 
 existing to stimulate patriotic feeling. This arises, no doubt, from the ap- 
 prehension of the American element in this country that tendencies are de- 
 veloping which, if not checked, will endanger the government and institu- 
 tions established by our forefathers and subsequentlj' maintained by our 
 generation at such a cost of blood and treasure. Homogeneous peoples, 
 members of some one great race, having the same characteristics and sym- 
 pathies, are usually patriotic, that is, devoted to the welfare of the whole 
 people, because in that lies the best interests of the individual ; but in com- 
 munities made up of radically different races, without common ancestry or 
 tradition, the sentiment of patriotism, the common bond of a common 
 people, weakens and dies out if not specially nurtured and cultivated. 
 
 One great reason for the growing lack of national sentiment in this 
 country is the enormous tide of immigration poured upon our shores since 
 the civil war, so great that it could not be merged with the Anglo-Saxon 
 population, and retained largely the customs, traditions and instincts of the 
 race in foreign lands. 
 
 Much of this immigration was valuable, but much of it also was venal 
 and vicious. And there came, increasingly in later years, masses of men 
 from decadent, mixed and conquered races, who for ages had had but little 
 interest in a common country or a common heritage, and could have none 
 whatever in ours, and whose every thought and action was centered in self. 
 To this class of people equally with the men whose courage and patriotism 
 made the Republic and those of kindred races who came here intending to 
 unite with it and share its fortunes, was given the ballot, and it was 
 promptly treated as a commercial bounty and sold to the highest bidder, 
 
the example spreading to the vicious and indifferent of all races. This in- 
 troduced into our political system a large and constantly increasing pur- 
 chasable element. It was the opportunity of the plutocrat and the money- 
 getter and they quickly took advantage of it to buy for themselves or tools 
 the places of power and influence that had heretofore been awarded by 
 patriotic voters to brains and statesmanship and use these offices for indi- 
 vidual gain. From this time on we find an accumulating selfishness in 
 public action, a corresponding neglect of national interests and a cowering 
 of patriotic tone and purpose in national statecraft. Statenianship which 
 did not pay was scouted as an iridescent dream, and "practical politics," 
 the statesmanship of the pocketbook, became the rule of our political 
 existence. Legislation is more and more a system of mutual help in 
 procuring local subsidies and personal aggrandizement. The national 
 treasury is considered a legitimate object of prey, rather than a means 
 of building up national prosperity and maintaining the standing and 
 character of the nation among the powers of the world. The national 
 life and interests by which all would be benefited, national character built 
 up, national integrity preserved, national prosperity assured, have been 
 measurably sacrificed to local greed and personal gain. To this condition 
 have we come at last, that the ship of state drifts helplessly towards the 
 destroying breakers while the crew are engaged in fighting for the cargo. 
 
 We are apt to charge this lamentable state of affairs upon our rulers 
 and legislators, but the people themselves are largely to blame for it. 
 Most legislators are truly representative men, reflecting accurately the 
 character and purposes of their constituency; " water will not rise higher 
 than its source," and a venal, selfish and unpatriotic majority need not 
 expect statesman-like action from their representatives. The remedy, if 
 there is to be one, must begin with the people. We have brought this con- 
 dition upon ourselves by paramount devotion to local interests, greed of 
 gain and the violation of nature's law of race integrity, and must work out 
 of it as best we can. It seems to me that one necessary step towards it, is 
 to inculcate a national sentiment in all manner of ways, to teach patriotism 
 to all the children of the land and to teach it from the primer to the calcu- 
 lus. To hold up for emulation those grand patriots whose sacrifice and 
 suffering gave to mankind the best government for the people the world 
 has yet seen and to impress upon them that they can only continue to 
 enjoy its benefits by the perpetuation of the institutions established by our 
 forefathers and the exercise of the same unselfish patriotism which called 
 them into existence. 
 
 Patriotism, devotion to the welfare of the whole people, is an up-build- 
 ing and conserving power ; it is the principle of union and cohesion illus- 
 trated in .^sop's fable of the bundle of fagots, while selfishness, local and 
 personal, is disorganizing and disintegrating and when once it predom- 
 inates can only end in dissolution. There is great need in this country for 
 patriotic societies to build up a national sentiment and to maintain and 
 propagate the better ideas of American national life, to controvert the 
 
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 gross and deadening materialism of latter day politics, and to preserve and 
 disseminate the histories and work of our patriotic sires. Their memories 
 should not be buried in the tomb of the past and so lost to the world as 
 examples and inspirations, but should become household words in every 
 family, stimulating to that patriotism which is not only willing to die for 
 the country when needed, but to live for it always and to make its honor 
 and welfare and destiny paramount to every local and personal considera- 
 tion. 
 
 The ancestor from whom comes my title to belong to the Society of 
 the Sons of the American Revolution was the proprietor of a brass foun- 
 dry in Philadelphia when the Revolutionary war commenced. He imme- 
 diately set his furnaces and factory to work manufacturing cannon, arms 
 and ammunition for the patriot army. He organized the first cavalry 
 troop and the first artillery company formed during the war, and was at 
 different times an officer in each. During the hard winter of 1778 he was a 
 volunteer aide on Washington's staff at Valley Forge, and did all in his 
 power to relieve the sufferings of the patriot army. When the British 
 occupied Philadelphia they destroyed all property of his that could be 
 found, but when they retired he again set his furnaces to work manufactur- 
 ing supplies for Washington's army. For a large part of these supplies the 
 Continental Congress failed to pay him, and at the close of the war he had 
 sacrificed most of his fortune in his patriotic endeavor to free this country 
 from British domination. Had he lived in these times and been animated 
 with the spirit of this age, he would, no doubt have furnished defective 
 armor plates for the war ships of his country and achieved a colossal for- 
 tune in doing it and have been lauded and honored for the accomplish- 
 ment of so successful a business transaction. It was such men as he — and 
 they appear to have been numerous in those days — that made it possible 
 for a new and thinly populated country to achieve its independence from 
 the greatest military power in the world. Such patriotism is invincible in 
 war and incorruptible in peace ; any people informed and permeated with 
 its spirit must always occupy a commanding position of power and in- 
 fluence. 
 
 To us has been given the greatest country and the grandest opportunity 
 of any nation of modern times. Our domain extends from the Arctic circle 
 to the torrid zone, and there is nothing necessary to human existence or 
 comfort, to progress or civilization, that can not be supplied within our 
 boundaries. We virtually control a continent laved by two great oceans, 
 giving us a practically unassailable location if we use ordinary judgment 
 and prudence in our measures for defense. When we prove equal to our 
 opportunity — when we become a nation, animated by a nation's pride and 
 purpose, and not a mere aggregation of petty, jarring and discordant local- 
 ities, when " Earth's greatest country's gut her soul and risen up Farth's 
 greatest nation " — we may dominate the world's destinies. Our flag will 
 float unchallenged on every sea, our commerce and manufactures penetrate 
 unchecked to every corner of the globe, our citizens be honored and 
 
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 respected in every land, our securities and corporate interests be the syno- 
 nym for safety and integrity in every market, and our people prosperous 
 beyond their dreams ; but all this is only possible to the predominance of a 
 courageous and purposeful national sentiment in the councils of the nation 
 and among the people. It should be the duty of patriotic societies, of all 
 true Americans, and especially of the descendants of those grand men who 
 illustrated t\\& practual value of patriotism in their lives and deeds, to culti- 
 vate this sentiment. May we not hope that a united and determined effort 
 will turn the tide of sordid influences now hastening our destruction, and 
 that a refluent wave of patriotic purpose will bear us onward to higher 
 ideals and a grander destiny ? The harbingers of evil days are plentiful ; 
 organized selfishness, sordid statesmanship, a prostituted franchise, local 
 and sectional jealousies and the unnecessary impoverishment of the people 
 are all influences tending to deaden and destroy patriotic sentiment, and 
 without a prevailing patriotism among the people this Union of States is a 
 rope of sand and will go to pieces, leaving to history the record of one 
 more futile attempt at government by the people. Let us believe with our 
 great poet, Lowell, that this is not to be : 
 
 O strange New World that yit wast never young, 
 
 Whose youth from thee by gripin' need was wrung ; 
 
 Brown foundlin' o' the woods, whose baby-bed 
 
 Was prowled roun' by the Injun's cracklin' tread ; 
 
 Who yit grew'st strong thru shifts an' wants an' pains, 
 
 Nussed by stern men with empires in their brains. 
 
 Who saw in vision their young Ishmel strain 
 
 With each hard hand a vassal ocean's main. 
 
 Thou ! skilled by freedom an' by gret events, 
 
 To pitch new states ez Old World men pitch tents ; 
 
 Thou ! taught by Fate to know Jehovah's plan 
 
 That man's devices can't unmake a man ; 
 
 The grave's not dug where traitor hands shall lay 
 
 In fearful haste thy murdered corse away. 
 
 "Nihilism and Paternalism " was discussed by Thomas G. 
 Greene, Esq. He showed in befitting phrase that neither of 
 these were in the thoughts and purposes of the man of '76, and 
 should find no resting place with us. 
 
 A number of gentlemen spoke to sentiments suggested by 
 the occasion, and mtich humor and many bright witticisms 
 marked the fleeting hours until the dial hand marked the begin- 
 ing of another day, when " good nights " were said. 
 
 At the day meeting Col. J. K. Philips read a paper, which 
 was ordered to be published in the Year Book, on " Footsteps of 
 Washington. " It is as follows : 
 
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 It is most appropriate that on this anniversary day Americans should 
 put aside their ordinary avocations and pass a portion of the time in con- 
 templating the life and character of the great Washington. 
 
 Two influences are so far reaching and so all potent in moulding hu- 
 man character that no just estimate of it may be formed without consider- 
 ing them. These are heredity and environment. If the influence of these 
 are good and wholesome we may expect the character thej'^ produce to be 
 symmetrical, harmonious, complete and, humanly speaking, perfect. 
 Where these exert a malign influence genius may break away to some 
 extent, and present us with great and notable characters, but they will be 
 marred ; as Cfesar's, by inordinate ambition ; as Cromwell's, with narrow 
 bigotry ; as Napoleon's, by superlative selfishness. 
 
 Viewing the well rounded and completed character of Washington 
 we may easily believe that the formative influences which produced it 
 were of the most fortunate. So indeed they were. He descended from 
 good ancestry of great respectability and noted for independence and pa- 
 triotism. His great-great-grandfather commanded troops raised by Vir- 
 ginia and Maryland to repel the incursions of certain Indian tribes, and is 
 spoken of as a good and public spirited citizen. His father is described as 
 a handsome, strong, prosperous, happy and much respected man. His 
 mother was regarded as a woman of notable good sense, self reliance, in- 
 dustry, frugality and high principle, whose ambition was for herself to be 
 a good wife and mother, and for her son to be a prosperous, contented and 
 happy planter. Surrounded by the simple habits and homely, rugged pur- 
 suits incident to plantation life, he early acquired a love of the open air 
 and a keen relish for outdoor occupations and amusements that remained 
 with him through life. The afi"ectionate esteem with which his brothers — 
 Augustine and Lawrence — regarded him, and the friendship of the Fair- 
 faxes, were of incalculable advantage to him all through life. These 
 brought him into association with men of wealth, education, experience 
 and influence, and women of culture, refinement and good breeding. 
 Even the instruction in military tactics by the old adjutant. Muse, and the 
 lessons in fencing by Van Braam were happy adjuncts. His choice of a 
 profession was also most fortunate. Besides bringing him much needed 
 doubloons and pistoles, it brought him to the notice of land holders and 
 made him widely and favorably known and laid the foundation of that 
 independent fortune that was so essential to the success of his life. It also 
 begot that methodical habit of recording transactions which has given us 
 our closest insight to his character. 
 
 Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen years we find him executing 
 extended surveys of wild lands. These expeditions took him into the wil- 
 derness and required him to " rough it" amid perils from wild beasts and 
 savages. At barely nineteen years of age he is appointed one of the Adju- 
 tants General of Virginia with the rank of major and the pay of one hun- 
 dred and fifty pounds a year. This was a position of considerable respon- 
 
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 sibility and exercised his knowledge of military tactics and familiarized 
 him with the organization and discipline of troops. The French and 
 Indians had become insolent and aggressive on the western frontier, and 
 Dinwiddle, the Scotch Governor of Virginia, selected young Major Wash- 
 ington, who had just reached his majority, and, especially commissioning 
 him thereto, appointed him " his express messenger " to bear the guberna- 
 torial message to the French commander in that quarter and bring back 
 the Frenchman's reply. It was an arduous, perilous, delicate and most 
 important mission, requiring profound knowledge of woodcraft as well as 
 of human nature, a physical and moral courage that nothing could daunt, 
 and intelligence that could not be deceived. It is most remarkable that a 
 young man, a boy of twenty-one, should have been charged with so great 
 an undertaking, yet the young man executed the task in such a manner as 
 reflected credit upon himself, and demonstrated that he possessed in the 
 highest degree the faculty of clear discernment and correct conclusion. 
 Virginia now authorized the raising of two companies and Major Washing- 
 ton was placed in command. This force was shortly greatly increased and 
 Washington raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel under Colonel Fry, 
 and an expedition set out to take possession of the forks of the Ohio. 
 
 Washington commanded the advance. Pushing out from Wills 
 Creek he reconnoitered as far south as Ohio Pyle Falls on the Youghio- 
 gheny river. Receiving information from friendly Indians that a party of 
 French and Indians were in the vicinity waiting an opportunity to attack 
 him he set out at the head of forty men, and on May 28, 1754, came upon 
 the enemy, and, in an engagement of about twenty minutes killed ten, 
 wounded one and captured twenty-one. Jumonville, the French com- 
 mandant, was killed. This was the first engagement of the long and 
 bloody French and Indian war. Colonel Fry dying, Washington assumed 
 command and collected his forces at the Great Meadows and there con- 
 structed the rude defense named Fort Necessity, where he was attacked by 
 a superior force of French and Indians, and, after a sharp struggle, was 
 forced to surrender. The terms of surrender (drawn up in French) were 
 imperfectly translated into English by Van Braam and it was made to ap- 
 pear that Jumonville had been assassinated, as the French claimed. 
 
 While Washington was struggling to obey orders by completing his 
 regiment, a law was passed at the instance of Dinwiddle by which Colonial 
 officers were outranked by officers of the same grade sent over from Eng- 
 land. Washington very promptly and properly resigned. Braddock hav- 
 ing come from England as commander-in-chief of all his majesty's forces 
 in North America, Washington became an aide to that officer. 
 
 The expedition for the reduction of Fort Duquesne, under the imme- 
 diate command of Braddock, followed almost the identical path of Wash- 
 ington's first journey to the forks of the Ohio. Below the mouth of the 
 Youghiogheny the column crossed to the south side of the Monongahela 
 river, along which it marched some three miles, and then re-crossed to the 
 
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 north side about half a mile from the mouth of Turtle Creek and the cabin 
 of John Frazier, a gunsmith, Indian trader and hunter. We may now re- 
 call how Washington had repeatedly warned Braddock to be cautious and 
 suggested that some provincial troops be placed in advance, but his warn- 
 ing was unheeded and his advice received with contempt. The column 
 passed across the lower bottom, up the ascending slope toward the high 
 hills a mile distant from the river. From these hills and at points a few 
 hundred yards between, rise two deep ravines, which, in diverging course, 
 pass down the slope and are lost in the lower land. At my earliest recol- 
 lection of these they were about ten feet deep and would conceal about ten 
 thousand infantry. Colonel Gage, whom we afterwards know as General 
 and commander-in-chief at New York and Boston, had the advance. The 
 whole column had passed between the ravines with its head well up toward 
 the hill, when suddenly from a concealed foe, at short range and on both 
 flanks, was opened a murderous fire. We need not repeat the story of 
 Braddock's defeat. We may recall how Washington raged as a fury; how 
 he handled one of the brass field pieces as if it had been a mere toy ; how 
 he bewailed the fate of the provincial troops, crying : " My poor Virgin- 
 ians ! Oh, my poor Virginians ; " and how, with a handful of these " Vir- 
 ginians," he covered the retreat until the remnant of the army reached 
 Dunbar, the rear guard and the baggage, forty miles distant. 
 
 Washington's display of feeling on this field we find repeated when 
 from Fort Lee he saw his brave men surrendered and disarmed at Fort 
 Washington, then stabbed to death by Hessian bayonets. We again see 
 the same fierce spirit blaze like an avenging deity upon the traitorous 
 Charles Lee on the field of Monmotith. 
 
 One of the officers brought off in safety from Braddocks' fated field we 
 are constrained to wish had fallen there — the weak, selfish, envious 
 Gates. Had Washington's advice been heeded there is little doubt victory 
 would have crowned this expedition. After crossing the river had the 
 column obliqued to the right, keeping Turtle Creek close on its right flank 
 until it reached the point where that stream breaks through the range 
 of hills and where the Pennsylvania Railroad crosses it at Brinton Sta- 
 tion, and then turned sharply to the left, the high ground would have been 
 reached and a line of march that could not easily have been ambushed. 
 
 After this disaster the French and Indians became yet more trouble- 
 some and aggressive, and Washington passed the greater portion of his 
 time organizing and directing the provincial militia in defense of the set- 
 tlers, until the second expedition was organized under command of General 
 Forbes, Washington commanding the Virginia troops. Here again the 
 wise advice of Washington as to route of march was unheeded. Instead of 
 taking the Braddock's route, which is the more direct, and, because it pur- 
 sues natural water courses, by far the easier, Forbes chose one more to the 
 north and crossing some three mountain chains. Roads had to be cut 
 through forests and streams bridged, all at great expenditure of labor and 
 time. 
 
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 This so delayed the march that the column had only reached the 
 Loyal Hana, sixty miles from the French fort, in November. Here a coun- 
 cil of war decided to give up the attempt and return. Washington's Vir- 
 ginians formed the advance of the column and his vigilance had warded 
 off all danger of Indian surprise. He had learned from his scouts that the 
 French garrison was weak and the commandant very apprehensive of the 
 threatened attack. He therefore earnestly urged a forward movement, to 
 which Forbes finally gave assent. Next to the last encampment of Forbes 
 was almost within rifle shot of the point at which we have seen Braddock 
 cross to the south side of the Monongahela, and he crossed Turtle Creek 
 and gained the highlands at the point on the Pennsylvania Railroad al- 
 ready mentioned, passing the field of Braddock' s defeat a mile or more on 
 his left flank. 
 
 With the exception of the loss entailed by the foolhardy action of 
 Captain Grant and a detachment of his Highlanders, the victory was 
 bloodless, as the garrison, setting fire to the fort, took to their boats and 
 escaped down the Ohio. 
 
 To Washington more than all others we may justly ascribe the suc- 
 cessful issue of the expedition. He now stands where five j^ears before, 
 while waiting for his baggage, he had passed an hour noting the eligible 
 site for a fort. If he could stand there to-day he would not ^ee Killbuck 
 or Smoky Island ; the floods have carried it away. The island upon which 
 he and Gist passed a terrible December night is now but little larger than 
 a town lot. Borne upon the shoulders of the highest adjacent hill (named 
 in his honor, Mount Washington) rests a populous ward of a mighty city. 
 
 It was most fortunate for the Colonies that in the struggle for this 
 position and the contiguous territory the arms of England triumphed. 
 The long contest during which, saj's Franklin, " the Colonies had raised, 
 paid and clothed nearly twenty-five thousand men," was the rugged school 
 in which the Colonists learned the art of war, and in which a number of 
 our Revolutionary officers gained invaluable experience. When we study 
 the early influences that surrounded Washington, and, following his foot- 
 steps, watch the unfolding and development of his character, we are pre- 
 pared to endorse Patrick Henry's estimate of him, and to second the mo- 
 tion of Thomas Johnson, of Maryland, that on June 15, 1775, made him 
 commander-in-chief of the Continental army. 
 
 No other man was qualified for the trust in anything like his measure. 
 Who save him could have organized armies, conducted campaigns, fought 
 battles, suffered disasters and won victories under like conditions. When 
 all around him was gloomy and men's hearts were filled with despair, 
 when he himself might well have said, as King Richard, " Patience is stale, 
 and I am weary of it," he never lost faith nor equanimit}'. The so-called 
 Conway cabal would have overwhelmed any lesser man. The unpopular 
 French alliance but for Washington's influence would have been more 
 hurtful than helpful to the Colonial cause. 
 
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 When the final victory was won and kingly power and honors were in 
 his grasp, who like him could have so bidden farewell to his officers as to 
 arouse and confirm the patriotism of the most halting. To whose influ- 
 ence so much as his do we owe the preparation and adoption of the 
 national Constitution ? Was Washington a great militarj^ genius ? Let 
 his retreat through New Jersey bear witness. Let Trenton and Princeton 
 and Monmouth testify. See with what skill and energy he hurled his lit- 
 tle army of eight thousand men from the Hudson to the Chesapeake and 
 compelled the surrender at Yorktown. Ask Frederick the Great of Prussia. 
 
 Was Washington a great statesman ? Search his state papers ; study 
 his farewell address and be answered. The youth of our land will find in 
 his character the safest example for their emulation. The Christian patriot 
 may confidently point to him as the best evidence that the Eternal One 
 does control the destiny of nations. 
 
 Fitting it is that the earliest morning light should gild the spires of 
 a great capital bearing his name, and that when the god of da}' sinks to 
 rest in the bosom of the mighty Pacific his last rays should rest on the 
 shores of an empire State perpetuating the immortal name — Washington. 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF CHAPTERS. 
 
 It early became apparent that the growth and prosperity of 
 the Society, especially in Washington, would be best promoted 
 by the formation of local Chapters. The revised By-L,aws of the 
 Society provided that not fewer than seven members residing in 
 the same locality might form a Chapter. 
 
 The compatriots of Spokane were first to so organize. 
 Colonel J. Kennedy Stout, who was the third admission to the 
 Society in that city, actively interested himself in presenting ad- 
 ditional members. The requisite number having been reached, 
 they met on February i, 1894, adopted a Constitution and By- 
 Laws, and organized by electing the following officers : 
 
 President CoIvOnelJ. Kennedy Stout. 
 
 Vice-President and Treasurer A. W. Doland. 
 
 Secretary and Registrar H. M. HoyT. 
 
 Managers j W. H. MaxwELI,, 
 
 \ K. K. Cutter. 
 
The Board of Managers of the Society accorded them offi- 
 cial recognition as Spokane Chapter No. i. They have held a 
 number of interesting meetings, notably that of February 22, 
 1895. This Chapter, now having fifteen members, exists as 
 Chapter No. i of the Washington Society. 
 
 At Seattle Mr. A. S. Gibbs issued a circular letter to our 
 members residing in the Sound District, urging them to meet at 
 Seattle September 25 and form a Chapter. This met a gratifying 
 response, and resulted in the formation of Seattle Chapter No. 2, 
 in the adoption of a Constitution and By-Iyaws, and in the elec- 
 tion of the following officers : 
 
 President E. S. Smith. 
 
 Vice-President J. B. HowK. 
 
 Secretary A. S. Gibbs. 
 
 Treasurer Frank Hanford. 
 
 ( J. W. Hai.1., 
 
 Managers. 
 
 J. F. GowEY. 
 
 They were promptly recognized by the State Society and in- 
 creased public interest in our objects have confirmed the wisdom 
 of forming these organizations, as well as exemplified the zealous 
 patriotism of their organizers. 
 
 THE OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 
 Chosen Februar^^ 22, 1895, are : 
 
 President CoL. T. M. Anderson, U. S. 
 
 Vice President Hon. George H. Wili^iams. 
 
 Secretary P.P. Dabney. 
 
 Treasurer Rai.ph W. Hoyt. 
 
 Registrar Wallace McCamanT, Esq. 
 
 / Tyler Woodward, 
 
 i a. e. borthwick, 
 
 \hon. IvaFayette Grover, 
 
 Board of Managers ' ^oi- J- K. Philips, 
 
 \ J. Kennedy Stout, Esq., 
 / Pres. Spokane Chapter No. 
 I E. S. Smith, 
 \ Pres. Seattle Chapter No. : 
 
ROLL OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Note : — Membership in the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion is based on lineal descent from an ancestor who assisted the 
 Colonies in securing independence. The names of lineal ances- 
 tors are printed in italics. Whenever in this list the services of 
 collateral relatives are mentioned they are given simply as mat- 
 ters of historical interest. The Society does not require the line 
 of descent to be given further back than to the Revolutionary 
 ancestor, but many of our members trace their families far 
 beyond. 
 
 state 
 Number 
 
 ANDERSON, THOMAS McARTHUR. 
 C01.ONKL 14TH Inf., U. S. Army. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of Richard Clotigh Anderson, Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Third Virginia Infantry, Continental Line, and 
 Brigadier-General Virginia Militia. He was with the " Boston 
 Tea Party " in 1774, commissioned Captain, March 7, 1776. He 
 was present at Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton 
 and at Brandywine, where he was badly wounded. Commis- 
 sioned Major, February 10, 1778, wounded at Savannah and 
 made prisoner at Charleston. Commissioned Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel 1779. Present at Yorktown October, 1781, as A. D. C. to 
 General La-Fayette. He was a member of the Society of the 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 National 
 Number 
 
 6701 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 125 AI.EXANDER, GEORGE NEEL. 7325 
 
 Street Commissioner. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of IVilliam Arnold, a Minute Man at 
 the Lexington Alarm, 1775, a Sergeant 1775-7, Quartermaster 
 1778-9, Lieutenant 1781. Served in Captain Stephen Kimball's 
 Compau}', Colonel Dan Hitchcock's Regiment, also in Captain 
 Abraham Winsor's Company, Colonel Brown's Regiment, and 
 Captain Wood's Company, Colonel Elliott's Regiment of 
 Rhode Island Troops. After the war a Justice of the Peace. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of Caleb Arnold, one of General 
 Nat. Greene's Riflemen. Seven brothers and three brothers- 
 in-law of Caleb Arnold were in service with him, his wife and 
 daughters cultivating their Rhode Island farm with their own 
 hands. 
 
 71 AEEEN, ETHAN W. 6771 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 Great-grandson of Preserved Kellogg, Corporal in Captain 
 Eben Wood's Company of Colonel Eben Wolbridge's Regi- 
 mont of Vermont Militia. 
 
 129 AEVORD, WILLIAM CULLUM. 7329 
 
 Assistant Bank Cashier. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi James Claghorji, Captain in Colonel 
 James Mead's Regiment Vermont Militia. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 of the Fifth Regiment Vermont Militia. 
 
 45 APPLEGATE, OLIVER C. 6745 
 
 Stockraiser. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Richard Applegate, a Soldier of the 
 New Jersey Line, who entered the Army with his two oldest 
 sons, Benjamin and William, about the beginning of the war. 
 
 (2). Grandson of Daniel Applegate, a Drummer in the First 
 Regiment, also in the Second Regiment New Jersey Conti- 
 nental Line. Daniel's mother being dead, he was bound to 
 " a steady Dutch farmer," near Albany, New York. At eleven 
 years of age, his father and brothers being in the Army, he 
 ran off from his patron and traveled eighty miles to the Army 
 to join his father. The Troops to which father and brothers 
 belonged were in a distant locality, but a kind-hearted Colonel 
 had him taught music and also to read, and enlisted him as a 
 Drummer. Daniel was also a Soldier in the War of 1812. 
 
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 46 APPI.EGATE, IVAN DECATUR. 6740 
 
 Stockraiskr. 
 
 Brother of O. C. Applegate. See No. 45. 
 
 47 APPLEGATE, EUCIEN B. 6747 
 
 Stockraiser. 
 
 Brother of O. C. Applegate. See No. 45. 
 
 120 APPLEGATE, ELMER IVAN. 7320 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Richard Applegate. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Daniel Applegate. See No. 45. 
 
 106 ARNOLD, FREDERICK KELLOGG. 7306 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Jonathan Arnold, born May 21, 1754, 
 at East Haddam, Connecticut. Served in the Revolutionary 
 War as follows : Enrolled at Fishkill, New York, June 10, 
 1776, in Captain Samuel Williams' Company of the Ninth 
 Connecticut Line, Colonel Samuel B. Webb commanding. 
 Private until 1781. January i, 1 781, the Second and Ninth 
 Regiments were tonsolidated into one, numbered the Third, 
 commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb, and Arnold was 
 made Second Sergeant of Captain Joseph Walker's Company, 
 serving until the disbandment of the Army at West Point by 
 order of Washington, early in June, 1783. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oljohn Saxton, born at Sheffield, Mas- 
 sachusetts, March 11, 1760. Enlisted December 16, 1776, as 
 Drummer in Captain Ephraim Fitch's Company of Colonel 
 Benjamin Simonds' Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. Was 
 at Ticonderoga. Enlisted again as Private, June 29, 1777, in 
 Captain Enoch Noble's Company of John Brown's Regiment 
 of the Massachusetts Line. 
 
 (3). Great-grandson of Ephraim Shead, who enlisted Jul)' 
 6, 1777, in Captain Roswell Downing's Compan)- of Colonel 
 John Ashley's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. 
 
 132 ARNOLD, HOSMER KELLOGG. 7332 
 
 Collector. 
 
 Son of Frederick K. Arnold. See No. 106. 
 
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 72 ATKINSON, JOSIAH LITTI.E. 6772 
 
 Re;al Estate. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of jMoses Little, who was Captain of 
 the Newbury, I5ssex County, Massachusetts, Company in the 
 Louisburg Expedition of 1758. Immediately after the battle 
 of Lexington he reported in command of a Company to Head- 
 quarters at Cambridge. He was appointed Colonel and placed 
 in command of a Regiment of Essex County Troops. This 
 Regiment he commanded at Bunker Hill, where it lost forty 
 men killed or wounded. Was present at Long Island and 
 Harlem Heights. Ill health compelled him to refuse a Brig- 
 adier-General's commission and return home in 1777. He was 
 then elected to the State Legislature. 
 
 118 BARTHOI.OMEW, JAMES HULL SHERMAN. 7318 
 
 Editor. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi Joseph Bartholotnetv, a Private 
 in Captain Isaac Cook's Company of Wallingford, Connecti- 
 cut Minute Men, that marched to Boston at the Lexington 
 alarm. Well authenticated family histories, genealogies and 
 traditions show him to have been a Lieutenant. A " Geneal- 
 ogy of the Bartholomew Family" states that "Lieutenant 
 Joseph Bartholomew commanded, by commission from the 
 General Court, all subject to military duty in Wallingford, 
 Connecticut." The records show that his father, a grand- 
 father and a great-grandfather served in the French and In- 
 dian War. 
 
 13 BATEMAN, CEPHAS CALEB. 6713 
 
 Chaplain U. S. Army. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of Zadoc Bateman, Private in Captain 
 Williams' Company, Twelfth Regiment, Massachusetts Conti- 
 nental Line. He served several enlistments from 177S-1781, 
 was honorably discharged, and pensioned in 1832 for faithful 
 service. 
 
 5 BEALL, HAMILTON MARBURY. 6705 
 
 Receiver op Linn County National Bank. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Lloyd Beall, Captain Seventh Maryland 
 Infantry, Continental Army. Captain Beall served through 
 the entire period of the war, and gave four sons, Thomas, Hor- 
 ace, Lloyd J. and Benjamin I., to the service. Colonel Wil- 
 liam Dent Beall, a cousin of Lloyd Beall, also served with dis- 
 tinction. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 39 BKLIvINGER, OSCAR HENRY. 6739 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (l). Great-great-grandson of Henry Bellinger, Private in 
 Third Company (Palatine) of Tryon County, New York, Mi- 
 litia, commanded by Colonel Jacob Klock. 
 
 123 BEANCHARD, CARLISLE PATERSON. 7323 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Joseph Wheaton, Ensign Second 
 Rhode Island, March i, 1779, Second Lieutenant September 
 I, 1779. Transferred to First Rhode Island, January i, 1781, 
 and served to December 25, 1783. On May 11, 1775, he aided 
 in capturing the schooner Margarette, laden with arms for the 
 British, and he hauled down the schooner's British flag. 
 Major and L,ieutenant-Colonel in War of 1812. 
 
 20 BORTHWICK, ALEXANDER E. 6720 
 
 Real Estate Dealer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi James Bortliwick, Soldier in New 
 York Militia, and served in protecting the settlers from the 
 British and Indians 1774-1780. 
 
 (2). Grandson of George Bortlnviek, who was in the Militia, 
 and especially distinguished for his vigilance when the Middle 
 Fort (now Middlebtirg, New York) was assailed and the Deitze 
 family massacred. 
 
 (3). Great-grandson oi John Handley Biishnell, Private First 
 Company, Captain Aaron Stevens', in Colonel Samuel Mott's 
 Battalion of Connecticut State Troops, sent to re-inforce the 
 Northern Department at Ticonderoga in 1776. With Captain 
 John Ely's Company of Saybrook at the Lexington alarm in 
 1775- 
 
 19 BORTHWICK, CALVIN. 6710 
 
 Farmer. 
 
 Same ancestors as No. 20. 
 
 30 BOYER, JOHN A. 6730 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi John Hart, Member of Pro- 
 vincial Congress, Member of Colonial Legislature, Member of 
 Continental Congress from New Jersey, and Signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
state No. National No. 
 
 Mr. Boyer is also a great-great-great-grandson of John 
 Rudderow, who superintended the laying out of the city of 
 Philadelphia 1681-1683, and subsequently died in New Jersey. 
 
 7 BOYNTON, CHARI.es HARVEY. 6707 
 
 Journalist. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oijohn Boyiiton, who was Lieutenant 
 and Captain in and Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Mas- 
 sachusetts Militia. 
 
 93 BRADLEY, FRANK EDWARD. 6793 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of George Philip, Lieutenant in a Com- 
 pany commanded by Captain Jacobus Philip, belonging to 
 Colonel Robert Livingston's Regiment of New York Troops. 
 
 104 BRENHAM, ROBERT BERNARD. 7304 
 
 Broker. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi John Adair, a Soldier in a South 
 Carolina Regiment at the age of seventeen, and afterwards an 
 aide-de-camp to General Sumpter. In 1787 John Adair re- 
 moved to Kentucky, where he became prominent in public 
 affairs. 
 
 25 BROCKENBROUGH, JOHN BOWYER. 6725 
 
 Eawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Carter Braxton, a Member of 
 the Continental Congress from Virginia, and a Signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oi John Brockenbrough, a Surgeon in 
 the Continental Army. 
 
 15 BROOKE, LLOYD. 6715 
 
 (i). Grandson of Lloyd Beall, an Ensign in the Seventh 
 Maryland, Captain-Lieutenant June 8, 1779. He was severely 
 wounded at German town, distinguished himself at Harlem 
 Heights, was taken prisoner at Camden, but finally escaped by 
 swimming the Santee river under a hot fire. Resigned his 
 commission at the close of the war, but again entered the 
 Army in 1799, and, after commanding many important posts, 
 died at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1817. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 22 BROOKE, EDWARD H. 6721 
 
 First Likutenant 2ist Infantry, U. S. Army. 
 
 Son of Lfloyd Brooke. See No. 15. 
 
 35 CABEEL, HENRY COUETER. 6747 
 
 First Eieutenant 14TH Infantry, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of A^zV/;(?/a.f Cabell, who, first as 
 a Captain, afterwards Colonel in the Virginia State Line, ren- 
 dered important service from time to time throughout the war. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oi Robert Gamble, Captain Eighth Vir- 
 ginia Regiment, Continental Line. 
 
 (3). Great-grandson of Andreiu Hamilton, Major in the 
 South Carolina State Line, who participated in most of the 
 important battles in Georgia and the Carolinas. 
 
 (4). Great-grandson of William Alston, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Third North Carolina Regiment, Continental Army, Member 
 of Provincial Congress, Member of Committee of Safety, 
 North Carolina. 
 
 81 CARDWEEE, JAMES ROBERT. 6781 
 
 Dentist. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Perrin Cardwell, a Private in Virginia 
 Troops. Was at the siege of Yorktown. Removed to near 
 Knoxvillle, Tennessee, 1817, where he died aged 106 years. 
 He drew a pension for his Revolutionary services. 
 
 88 CARDWEEE, BYRON P. 6788 
 
 Broker. 
 Brother of J. R. Cardwell. See No. 81. 
 
 149 CAREE, WAETER EDWARD. 7349 
 
 Physician. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson o{ John Carll, Private in Captain Si- 
 las Burbank's Company, Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, com- 
 manded by Colonel Samuel Brewer, 1777-80. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of Robert Carll, Private in Cap- 
 tain Philip Thomas' Company in the Massachusetts Battalion 
 commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall. 
 
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 48 CARTER, EDWARD CHAMP. 6748 
 
 SuRGKON U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Hill Cartc-r, Lieutenant Third Regi- 
 ment Light Dragoons, Continental Line. This Regiment was 
 raised in Virginia pursuant to a resolution of Congress, Jan- 
 uary 5, 1777. 
 
 94 CARTER, CHARLES HARRISON. 6794 
 
 Attorney at L,aw. 
 
 Brother of E. C. Carter. See No. 48. 
 
 34 CARPENTER, GILBERT SALTONSTALL. 6734 
 
 Major 4TH Infantry, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Giirdon Saltonstali, Colonel and 
 Brigadier-General in the Continental Army. 
 
 (2). Grandson of William Carpenter, a Sergeant in the New 
 Hampshire Line and a Revolutionary pensioner. 
 
 126 CHAPIN, WILLARD HART. 7326 
 
 Bookkeeper. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi Joseph Hart, a Private in Cap- 
 tain William Tucker's Company, First Regiment Hunterdon 
 County, New Jersej% Militia. 
 
 64 CLAPP, J. MxALCOLM. 6764 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oS. Joseph Clapp, a Private in 
 Captain James Talmage's Company of Colonel Roswell Hop- 
 kins' Sixth Regiment Duchess County, New York, Militia. 
 
 80 CLARKE, LOUIS G. 6780 
 
 Druggist. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of Abraham Clarke, Member of Com- 
 mittee of Public Safety, Member of Provincial Congress, Mem- 
 ber of Continental Congress from New Jerse}^ and a Signer of 
 the Declaration of Independence. He represented New Jer- 
 sey in the National Councils, and after the war was a member 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 of the convention which framed the National Constitution. 
 He gave three sons to the cause of American Independence — 
 Noah, Thomas and William. These were captured and con- 
 fined in the notorious prison ship "Jersey." Thomas, an 
 artillery officer, was thrown into a dungeon, and received only 
 such food as his fellow prisoners could conve}' to him through 
 a key-hole. His father laid these facts before Congress, when 
 that body ordered retaliation upon a certain British officer. 
 Captain Clarke's condition was quickly improved. 
 
 (2). Grandson of Noah Clarke, a Private in Captain Chris- 
 topher Marsh's Troop of Light Horse, Essex County, New 
 Jersey, Militia. He was in the battle of Long Island, through 
 the New Jersey and Pennsylvania campaigns, and with the 
 Army at Valley Forge. 
 
 (3). Great-grandson of John Ross, a Soldier in Colonel 
 (afterwards General) Anthony Wayne's Fourth Pennsylva- 
 nia Regiment, participating with this famous Regiment in 
 nearly all its battles, including the capture of Stony Point. 
 
 74 CLARKSON, DAVID M. 6774 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 (i). Great-great-great-grandson of IVilliani Cabell, Mem- 
 ber of the House of Burgesses, Member of all the Revolution- 
 ary Conventions, Member of Virginia Committee of Safety. 
 
 42 COCHRAN, HIRAM. 6742 
 
 Carpenter. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Charles Cochran, Corporal in Captain 
 John Lawdon's Company, F'irst Battalion of Riflemen, Penn- 
 sylvania Line. He enlisted July i, 1775, was at Monmouth, 
 and served continuously until the close of the war. 
 
 no COOPER, JACOB CAIvVIN. 7310 
 
 Surveyor. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Frederick Cooper, who entered the 
 service in a Pennsylvania Company commanded by Captain 
 Lart, September 17, 1777. He served several enlistments with 
 North Carolina Troops, his last being April, 1781, for one year, 
 in Captain Mercer's Company. He was engaged at Cowpens, 
 Eutaw Springs and siege of '9&. August 27, 1832, being 73 
 years old, he applied for and was allowed a pension for his 
 services. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 16 CURTIS, EDWARD DAVID. 6716 
 
 Broker. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Joseph Hall, Lieutenant and Cap- 
 tain in Croydon Company, New Hampshire Regiment, Conti- 
 nental Army. Signer of Association Test, Croydon. 
 
 loi CUTTER, KIRTIvAND KEIvSEY. 7301 
 
 Architect. 
 
 ( I ) . Great-great-great-grandson oijared Potter, who gradu- 
 ated at Yale College in 1760, studied medicine and practiced in 
 New Haven and Wallingford, and on May 20, 1775, was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Jonathan Trumbull and commissioned 
 Surgeon in the First Regiment Connecticut Line. He ren- 
 dered most valuable service in field and hospital until the close 
 of the war. 
 
 73 DABNEY, PERCY POPE. 6773 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of William Pofe, Private in a Virginia 
 Infantry Regiment. He entered the service at the age of six- 
 teen years and because of his youth was detailed to assist in 
 guarding prisoners taken at Burgoyne's surrender. He served 
 imtil the end of the war as an Infantry Soldier. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of William Madison, Lieutenant of 
 Artillerj'' in Dabney's Legion of Virginia State Troops. He 
 was at the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwal- 
 lis. He was a brother of James Madison, fourth President of 
 the United States. 
 
 114 DODGE, FRANCIS SAFFORD. 7314 
 
 Major and Paymaster, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Robert Dodge, First Lieutenant in 
 Captain Richard Dodge's Company of Colonel Samuel Ger- 
 rish's Regiment, Massachusetts Line. Captain in 1776. Served 
 in twenty-three engagements, and in 1782, and afterward is re- 
 ferred to as Colonel. 
 
 66 DOEAND, ARTHUR W. 6766 
 
 Wholesale Druggist. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Williarn Hall, a Soldier of the 
 Continental Army, New Hampshire Line. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of Daniel Hall, a Soldier of 
 the New Hampshire Line. 
 
 (3). Great-great-great-grandson oi John Hall, Member of 
 New Hampshire Committee of Safety. 
 
 (4). Great-great-grandson oijohn Ray, a Soldier with New 
 Hampshire Troops. 
 
 Samuel Barr, a great-great-great-grandfather of this mem- 
 ber, was a Captain in Indian War, 1746. 
 
 107 DOOIvITTLE, GEORGE TILTON. 7307 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Thaddcus C(7(7^, Major in Colo- 
 nel Ward's Regiment, Connecticut, Continental Line. It 
 joined Washington's Army at New York, and Major Cook was 
 at White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. He was appointed 
 Colonel of the Tenth Regiment Connecticut Militia, and did 
 most excellent service with it in the movements against Bur- 
 goyne. He was at Danbury to oppose Tryon's raid, April 25 
 and 28, 1777. 
 
 41 ECKERSON, THEODORE JOHN. 6741 
 
 Major, U. S. Army, (Retired). 
 (i). Grandson of Abraham Voorhees, Private in Captain 
 Ten Eyck's Company, First Battalion, Somerset County, New 
 Jersey. He also served in the Continental Army. 
 
 61 ECKERSON, THEODORE HENRY. 6761 
 
 Captain, U. S. Army, (Retired). 
 
 (l). Great-grandson of Abraham Voorhees. See No. 41. 
 
 63 ECKERSON, RUFUS INGAELS. 6763 
 
 Real Estate and Loans. 
 
 Great-Grandson of Abraham Voorhees. See No. 41. 
 
 119 EDES, WIEEIAM HENRY. 7319 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 (l). Grandson of Charles Wetherell, Private in Captain 
 Thomas Hartshorn's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's 
 Regiment Massachusetts Troops. He was a Revolutionary 
 Pensioner, making application April 3, 181 8. 
 
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 97 ELLICOTT, SALVADOR. 6797 
 
 License Inspector. 
 
 (l). Great-great-grandson of Daniel Carroll, Member of 
 the Executive Council of Maryland. Member of Continental 
 Congress. After the war he was a member of the Convention 
 that framed the Federal Constitution, and represented his 
 State in the first Congress under the Constitution. He was 
 almost constant!}' engaged in public service. His brother 
 John was the first Roman Catholic Bishop in the United 
 States. They were cousins of " Charles Carroll of Carrollton." 
 
 145 EMERY, CHARLES DELAUS. 7345 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of Josiah Emery, Private in Captain 
 John Moody's Company, raised in Colonel Badger's, and part 
 of Colonel Stickney's Regiments New Hampshire Troops, to 
 reinforce the Continental Army at New York. It was at the 
 battle of White Plains. 
 
 143 FAY, CHARLES S. 7343 
 
 Insurance Agent. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Bnrnap, a Private in 
 a Company of Minute Men of Sutton, Massachusetts, at the 
 Lexington Alarm, and serving with the State Troops for a 
 number of months afterward. 
 
 17 FREEMAN, GEORGE WENTWORTH. 6717 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Isaac Freevian, Private Invalid 
 Corps Eighth Massachusetts, under Captain Wiley, served 
 three years. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Aaron Stephens, a Drummer in Cap- 
 tain Jonathan Wentworth's Company, Colonel Enoch Poor's 
 Regiment New Hampshire Militia. Was with his regiment at 
 Bunker Hill. 
 
 83 FRENCH, JOHN WILLIAM. 6783 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel 23D Infantry, U. S. A. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of James Miller, Fifer in Captain 
 Pittman's Company, Colonel Robert Elliot's Rhode Island 
 Artiller)' Regiment. 
 
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 (2). Great-great-grandson of Thomas //tf/(\r, Lieutenant in 
 Captain Josiah Smith's Company, Colonel Whitney's Regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts Militia. 
 
 109 GIBBS, ARTHUR S. 7309 
 
 Cashier. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Abijah Bush. He was at Boston 
 until after the battle of Bunker Hill. Had rank of Major in 
 Massachusetts Troops, at Bemis Heights, and was at Trenton 
 and Princeton. He was a Revolutionar}^ Pensioner. 
 
 53 GII.es, henry S. 6753 
 
 Landowner. 
 
 (1). Great-great-grandson of Tobias Lord, Captain of Com- 
 pany in a Maine Regiment, stationed for a time at Falmouth, 
 now Portland, Maine. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oi John Lord, Lieutenant in a Com- 
 pany in Arnold's expedition against Quebec. 
 
 108 GOODElvL, GORMAN B. 7308 
 
 (i.) Great-great-grandson of Abner GoodeU. a soldier in 
 Captain Gate's Company Massachusetts Militia, April 19, 1775. 
 Was also at White Plains. 
 
 59 GOWEY, JOHN FRANKLIN. 6759 
 
 Banker. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grand.son of Abraham Willey, Private in 
 Captain John Willey's Company, Colonel Joseph Spencer's 
 Regiment, Connecticut Troops. Captain Willey was a brother 
 of Private Willey. They were at the Lexington Alarm, and 
 in service long afterwards. 
 
 62 GOWEY, FRANK McDONALD. 6762 
 
 Bank Teller. 
 
 (i). Great-great-great-grandson of Abraham Willey. See 
 No. 59. 
 
 36 GREENE, THOMAS G. 6736 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Charles D-:Faina, Volunteer 
 in Continental Army on the staff of Marquis de La Fayette, 
 with whom he came to America. He was wounded at the 
 siege of Yorktown. 
 
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 (2). Great-great-grandson oi John IVade-, a Volunteer in 
 a Company of Georgia Rangers. 
 
 127 GREENLEAF, ROBERT STEPHEN. 7327 
 
 County Assessor. 
 
 (i). Great grandson of /srcu-/ Greenkaf, Private in Captain 
 Thomas Brintnall's Company, Colonel Cyprian Howe's Regi- 
 ment, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Troops. Also in 
 Colonel Benjamin Tupper's Regiment, Tenth Massachusetts. 
 He also served in Capt. Jonathan Baldwin's Company, Colonel 
 Josiah Brown's Regiment in Gen. Johnson's Crown Point 
 Expedition, 1755. 
 
 44 GRovER, Lafayette. 6744 
 
 Ex-U. S. Senator, Ex-Gov. of Oregon. 
 
 (l). Great-grandson of Deacon James Grcn'er, an active 
 Patriot who gave three sons to the cause of Independence. 
 
 (2). Grandson oi John Groz'er. He was a Minute man at 
 Lexington; was at Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights, and 
 subsequently served two years. 
 
 Amos Hastings, a grand-uncle, was a Captain and com- 
 manded the entrenching party at Bunker Hill and saw subse- 
 quent service. 
 
 Daniel Gage, a grand-uncle, was an Ensign, and so distin- 
 guished himself at the battle of Monmouth that he publicly 
 received the thanks of Washington. 
 
 Gov. Grover's father, John Grover, was a surgeon in the 
 war of 1812. 
 
 38 HABERSHAM, ROBERT ALEXANDER. 6738 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi James Habersham, Colonel in 
 Georgia Volunteers. He had two brothers, John and James, 
 who were active patriots, John being a Major of Cavalrj'. 
 
 (2). Grandson of Barnard Elliott, soldier in South Caro- 
 lina Troop during the war. 
 
 105 HABERSHAM, JOHN P. 
 
 Insurance Agent. 
 
 Son of R. A. Habersham. See No. 38. 
 
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 57 HALL, HENRY KNOX. 6757 
 
 Ship Builder. 
 
 (1). Grandson o{ /ames //aU, Sergeant in Colonel Henry 
 Knox's Regiment of Artillery, 1776, Second Lieutenant 1777, 
 when he was commissioned First Lieutenant ; the Regiment 
 was commanded by Colonel John Crane, and was the Third 
 Regiment of Artillery. Commissioned Captain-Lieutenant, 
 April 12, 1780. Was with General Knox at Monmouth, Valley 
 Forge and Yorktown. Was a member of Massachusetts State 
 " Society of the Cincinnati." 
 
 8 HALL, JAMES WINSLOW. 6708 
 
 Ship Carpenter. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of /amt's Hall. See No. 57. 
 
 75 HANFORD, FRANK. 6775 
 
 Underwriter. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of JVilliai/i Brcnon, Sergeant in Cap- 
 tain Comstock's Company, Fifth Regiment, Connecticut Line, 
 commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Sherman. Sergeant 
 Brown was at the seige of Yorktown, and was one of the " for- 
 lorn hope " that carried Fort Hamilton by assault, October 14, 
 1781. For his gallant conduct on this occasion he received a 
 " .special badge of merit. " 
 
 (2). Great-great-great-grandson of Mathew Holgafe, Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel of Seventh Battalion, Philadelphia Militia. 
 
 (3). Great-great-great-great-grandson of P^'leg Baldwin, 
 Private Captain Peck's Company, Milford, Connecticut, Mil- 
 itia, 1776. 
 
 76 HANFORD, CLARENCE. 6776 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 Brother of Frank Hanford. See No. 75. 
 
 77 HANFORD, ARTHUR ELWOOD. 6777 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Brother of Frank Hanford. See No. 75. 
 
 124 HARDING, FRANKLIN STERLING. 7324 
 
 Postmaster. 
 
 Great-grandson of Thomas Harding, Private in Captain 
 Robert Durkee's Company of Pennsylvania Line. Was pres- 
 
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 ent at Millstone River, Round Brook, Germantown, Brandy- 
 wine and Valley Forge, and with Captain Jones' Company of 
 Connecticut Line sent to re-in force Gates at Saratoga. 
 
 134 HARRISON, GARY HETH. 7334 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 (i). Great-great-great-grandson of Afxhibald Cary of Vir- 
 ginia, Member of the House of Burgesses, Member of Com- 
 mittee of Safety, and a zealous supporter of the Independence 
 of the Colonies. 
 
 (2.) Great-great-grandson of Carter Henry Harrison, Cap- 
 tain of a company of Virginia Troops. He was a brother of 
 Benjamin Harrison who signed the Declaration of Indepen- 
 dence. 
 
 10 HASBROUCK, ALFRED, JR. 6710 
 
 First Eieutenant 14TH Inft. U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Abraham Hashronck, Member 
 of Provincial Congress, Member of State Assembly, Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel and Colonel of First Regiment, Ulster County, 
 New York. Oct. 16, 1777, the British destroyed Kingston, 
 New York, and Colonel Hasbrouck lost a residence, barns and 
 store house while he was looking to the safety of the public 
 records of New York City, which had been entrusted to his 
 care. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Joseph Hasbrouck, Major First 
 Ulster Regiment, October 25, 1775. 
 
 43 HINES, HARVEY K. 6743 
 
 Minister of the Gospei,. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Barf ram Rounds, Ensign and Lieutenant 
 in Rhode Island Troops, Continental Line. At Long Island 
 and other engagements. Was a Revolutionary Pensioner, his 
 original commissions being filed, with other papers, in the 
 Pension office. 
 
 14 HOUGHTON, ROSS C. 6714 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi John Stains, Private in a Massa- 
 chusetts Company of Riflemen. 
 
 {2). Great-grandson of Samuel Clark, of Rhode Island, 
 Captain Corps of Engineers. 
 
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 115 HOWES, THOMAS BASSETT. 7315 
 
 Manager A. D. T. Co. 
 
 (i). Great-great-great-great-grandson ox Jeremiah Howes, 
 of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. lu Captain Micah Chapman's 
 Company, Colonel Joseph Otis' First Barnstable Regiment, 
 Ensign September 29, 1775; April 10, 1776, Second Lieutenant; 
 First Lieutenant in Captain Abijah Bang's Company, Colonel 
 Dike's Regiment March, 1777; Lieutenant in Captain Micah 
 Chapman's Company, Colonel Freeman's Regiment, 1778-1779. 
 
 91 HOWE, JAMES BLAKE. 6791 
 
 Attorney At Law. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Christoplier Gadsden, Delegate 
 to First Continental Congress. Brigadier General of the 
 South Carolina Brigade Continental Army. He was at the 
 siege of Charleston, and when the city was captured signed 
 the Articles of Capitulation. In violation of these articles 
 the enemy arrested him and confined him in a dungeon for 
 ten months. 
 
 32 HOYT, RICHARD. 6732 
 
 Pilot. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Stephen Hoyt, Lieutenant in Col- 
 onel John Stark's First New Hampshire Regiment. He was 
 at the battle of Bunker Hill and the surrender of Burgoyne. 
 Tlie bursting of a gun so crippled one of his hands that he 
 left the service. 
 
 58 HOYT, RALPH WARREN. 6758 
 
 Bank Cashier. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of .S/^/Z/d-w Hoyt. See No. 32. 
 
 99 HOYT, HENRY MARTYN. 6799 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Daniel Hoyt, Private in Captain 
 Benedict's Company, Colonel Bradley's Battalion Connecticut 
 troops. He was probably an Ensign of a Troop of Horse at 
 one period of the war. 
 
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 142 HUNT, GEORGE. 7342 
 
 Mechanical Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of IVilUam Heath, of Massachusetts, 
 Major General in the Continental Army. 
 
 112 KING, HENRY P. 7312 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 (i). Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin King, Dele- 
 gate to Provincial Congress; Member of Committee of Safety, 
 Massachusetts. He gave five sons to the cause of Indepen- 
 dence. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of George King, who was Ser- 
 geant in a Company of Minute Men commanded by Captain 
 James Williams, at Roxbury, April 20, 1775. He was also 
 in Captain Josiah Crocker's Company, Colonel Carpenter's 
 Regiment, in the Rhode Island Campaign. 
 
 139 KIRKEAND, ARTHUR EDWARD. 7339 
 
 Justice of the Peace. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi John Kirkland, Captain of a 
 Company in Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Militia, sent to re-inforce the Northern Army, 1777. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of Hugh Maxwell, Captain in 
 the Seventh Continental Infantry, and Lieutenant-Colonel of 
 the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Line, October 19, 1782. 
 At the battle of Bunker Hill he was wounded in the shoulder. 
 
 140 KIRKEAND, EUGENE HOLMES. 7340 
 
 Carpenter and Builder. 
 
 Brother of A. E. Kirkland. See No. 139. 
 
 100 KOEEOCK, FREDERICK N. 1623 
 
 Railroad Agent. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Shepard Kollock, Lieutenant and Brevet 
 Captain Second Regiment Artillery, Continental Line, 1776-8. 
 
 138 EAMBERSON, BUEEE. 7338 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Samuel Ftirmann, Private in Cap- 
 tain White's Company of Colonel Wessenfil's Regiment, New 
 
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 York Militia. At one time he was entrusted with important 
 dispatches to carry across Lake Champlain on the ice, and 
 nearly lost his life by breaking through. 
 
 137 LAMBERSON, LEWIS HUMPHREY. 7337 
 
 Bookkeeper. 
 
 Brother of Buell Lamberson. See No. 138. 
 
 144 LEE, CHESTER FAIRMAN. 7344 
 
 Mining. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi Jared Lee, a Justice of the 
 Peace in Hartford County, Connecticut, ^TJS'l^- 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Amos Lee who served three enlist- 
 ments with the Connecticut troops during the war. He was 
 also a soldier in the French and Indian war. 
 
 52 LEWIS, CICE:R0 HUNT. 6752 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 (i). Grandson of LJavid Chambers, Colonel of the Third 
 Regiment, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Militia, June 19, 
 1776. Colonel of a Battalion of New Jersey State Troops, 
 November 27, 1776, which a month later he commanded at 
 the battle of Trenton. Colonel of the Second Regiment, 
 Hunterdon County, New Jersey Militia, 1777-79. 
 
 LINDSLEY, ADDISON ALEXANDER. 7322 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Aaron Lindsley, a New Jersey Min- 
 ute Man. He was lame and could not enter the Army, but 
 was ever active as a Minute Man. At the battle of Monmouth 
 he was wounded on the head by a sword stroke from the 
 effects of which he eventually died. His wife was Abigal 
 Halsey. Her father and mother, the great-great-grandparents 
 of this member, gave two sons to the Continental Army, 
 Luther and Obadiah, who never accepted a penny of the pub- 
 lic funds, but were supported by their father. Luther was 
 successively Sergeant, Lieutenant, Adjutant and Brevet Cap- 
 tain. The parents both died of smallpox, contracted while 
 nursing soldiers when this disease prevailed among the troops 
 in 1778 and 1780. 
 
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 1 8 LITTLEFIELD, ROGER SHERMAN. 6718 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Grandson of John Sherman, Captain by Ijrevet in 
 Continental Army. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of AV^.v Sherman, Signer of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence. 
 
 (3). Grandson of Aaron Littlefield, Private and Teamster 
 in Continental Army. 
 
 51 MALCOLM, PHILIP SCHUYLER. 6751 
 
 Electrical Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of William Malcolm, Colonel Second 
 New York Volunteer Infantry, Malcolm's Regiment. Colonel 
 "Additional Regiment" Continental Infantry. Continental 
 Adjutant-General of the Northern Department, 1780. Mem- 
 ber of Provincial Congress, 1776. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Philip Schuyler, Major-General 
 Continental Army 1775-79. Member of Provincial Congress. 
 Member of Continental Congress. 
 
 3 MANN, GILBERT SHERBURN. 6703 
 
 Salesman. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Nicholson Broughton, who at thir- 
 teen years of age enlisted and served with the Ma.ssachusetts 
 troops during the winter of 1777-78. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson oi Nicholson Broughton, Sr., who, 
 when a Captain in Colonel Glover's Regiment, 1775, was given 
 the first Naval Commission. With a detachment of his Mar- 
 blehead fishermen he sailed in the schooner " Hannah " and 
 captured the British ship "Unity" laden with supplies. A 
 month later he sailed on the " Lynch " as Commodore, accom- 
 panied b)- the " Franklin. " This expedition comprised 135 
 men, and was ordered by Congress to the St Lawrence to 
 intercept transports bound from England to Quebec. Return- 
 ing, he was commissioned Second Major of the Fifth Regi- 
 ment, Essex Militia, Colonel Glover's. 
 
 (3). Great-great-great-grandson oi John Glcver, Colonel of 
 Marine Regiment raised in Marblehead. Appointed Brigadier 
 General, February 21, 1775. 
 
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 133 MARSHALL, JAMES M. 7333 
 
 Major and Quartermaster, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Thomas Mars/tall, of Virginia, 
 and after 1780 of Kentucky. When the Revolutionary war 
 broke out he was Captain of a Company of Culpepper Minute 
 Men. From this Company rose a Regiment, commanded by 
 Colonel Woodford, of which Captain Marshall became Major. 
 He distinguished himself at the battle of the Great Bridge. 
 He became Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel of the Third Vir- 
 ginia Regiment. At the battle of Germantown he distin- 
 guished hiifiself by unusual gallantry and courage. At the 
 battle of Brandywine it has been said he saved the Patriot 
 Army. In 1779 he was sent to re-inforce General Lincoln in 
 South Carolina, and when Charleston was surrendered to the 
 British he and his Regiment became prisoners of war. For 
 his distinguished and faithful service, the Virginia House of 
 Burgesses presented him a sword. 
 
 102 MAXWELL, WILLIAM HOWELL. 7302 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of John Maxwell, Lieutenant and 
 Captain in Sussex County, New Jersey Militia ; Lieutenant 
 and Captain in Colonel Oliver Spencer's Regiment, Conti- 
 nental Army. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of George Midrheid, Private in Cap- 
 tain Albert Updike's Company, Second Regiment, Hunterdon 
 County, New Jersey Militia. 
 
 (3). Great-great-grandson oi John Hoiuell, Private in Cap- 
 tain William Tucker's Companj', First Regiment, Hunterdon 
 County, New Jersey, Militia. 
 
 78 MOFFETT, GEORGE H. 6778 
 
 Editor. 
 
 (l). Great-grandson of George Moffett, Captain and Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel in Regiment of Virginia Troops with General 
 Greene in the South. At Cowpeus and King's Mountain. 
 
 92 MOODY, LUCIUS WRIGHT. 6792 
 
 Druggist. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Joshua Reed, Private in a 
 Company of Minute Men commanded by Captain Parker. 
 
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 Participated in the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill and 
 White Plains. It is a well authenticated fact that Joshua 
 Reed, at Lexington, captured the first prisoner taken from 
 the British in the War of the Revolution. 
 
 141 MUIR, WILLIAM TORBERT. 7341 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Francis Muir, First Lieutenant in 
 Gist's Additional Continental Regiment, January, 1777; Cap- 
 tain-Lieutenant, April 23, 1779; Captain, May, 1780; Retired, 
 January i, 1781. 
 
 60 McCAMANT, WALLACE. 6760 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of James McCamant, Ensign, First 
 Company, First Battalion Pennsylvania Militia, commanded 
 by Lieutenant-Colonel John Gardner ; Captain of a Company 
 in Colonel Bull's Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and 
 present at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, and in the New 
 Jersey and Pennsylvania Campaign. 
 
 79 McKEE, EDWARD DAVIS. 6779 
 
 Clerk U. S. District Court. 
 
 (I) Great-grandson of ya/«« Davis ^ of North Carolina, 
 who earl}' advocated American Independence. He was a 
 promoter and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration. Colonel 
 commanding North Carolina troops in the Colonial Army. 
 He rendered distinguished service to General Greene at the 
 battle of Guilford Court House, and the subsequent operations 
 against Cornwallis that ended with the surrender at York- 
 town. 
 
 146 McKENNA, CHARLES L. 7346 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Henry Baker, Lieutenant 
 Maryland Regiment, Continental Army. 
 
 147 McKENNA, FRANCIS I. 7347 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 Brother of Charles L. McKenna. See No. 146. 
 
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 50 McKIM, MAURICE. 6750 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Henry Fisher, Major in the 
 First Delaware Militia. The Committee of Safety at Phila- 
 delphia authorized him to dismantle all the pilot boats plying 
 in Delaware Bay except his own, which he was to use as an 
 express, to bring warning of the approach of any vessel of the 
 enemy. He rendered this service for a long period, and also 
 contributed several thousand dollars and loaned other sums to 
 relieve the Army when suflFeringat Valley Forge. The greater 
 part of his just claims upon the Government remains unpaid. 
 
 113 McKINSTRY, JAMES C. 7313 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Charles McKinstry, Lieutenant in 
 • Colonel Van Ness' Regiment of New York troops. 
 
 69 OVERTON, CLOUGH. 6769 
 
 Lieutenant U. S. Army. 
 
 (l). Great-great-grandson of Thomas Overton, Lieutenant 
 First Virginia Regiment Continental Line, known to have been 
 at the battle of Guilford Court House. 
 
 148 PADDOCK, ROBERT G. 7348 
 
 Fruit Farmer, 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Henry Paddock, Vr\va.te in Captain 
 Christopher Tillman's Company, Colonel Stephen J. Schuy- 
 ler's Regiment, of Albany County, New York Militia. 
 
 2 PAGE, WILMER LEE. 6702 
 
 Importer. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson ofyi'/4« Page, -who was Lieuten- 
 ant-Governor of Virginia and resisted Lord Dunmore's attempt 
 to disarm the Colonists. He was a Member of the Committee 
 of Safety, and Governor, and in all respects an active, zealous 
 and powerful friend of the patriot cause. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson oi Henry Lee, Captain of Cavalrj- 
 in Colonel Thomas Bland's Regiment. Colonel Second Cavalry 
 Legion. He is the celebrated "Light Horse Harry Lee " of 
 this period. 
 
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 6 PETTINGILL, SAMUEL BARRETT. 6706 
 
 Journalist. 
 
 (l). Great-grandson o{ John Barrett, Colonel of the Upper 
 Regiment of Cumberland County, Vermont. Secretary of the 
 Committee of Safety in 1775. 
 
 (2). Grandson of Thomas Barrett, who was Aid-de-camp on 
 the staff of his father Colonel Barrett. 
 
 22 PHILIPS, JOHN KENNEDY. 6722 
 
 Accountant. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson oi Joseph Philips, Ensign Seventh Bat- 
 talion, Chester County, Pennsylvania Association, com- 
 manded by Colonel William Gibbons. He was at Brandywine, 
 was active in work to relieve the suffering at the Valley Forge 
 encampment, and always a pronounced patriot. 
 
 55 PHILLIPS, THOMAS H. 6755 
 
 Railroad Agent. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of 7'honias Worthington, Member of 
 the Continental Congress from Maryland. 
 
 68 REED, SANDERSON. 5768 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi John McDowell, Surgeon Second 
 Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, and afterwards 
 Surgeon First Infantry, U. S. Army. 
 
 12 REYNOLDS, CHARLES ROBERTS. 6712 
 
 Clerk Quartermaster's Department, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of John Reynolds, Captain 
 Seventh Battalion, Maryland Line. 
 
 33 ROBERTS, BENJAMIN K. 6733 
 
 Captain Fifth Artillery, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi John Roberts, Private in Col- 
 onel Seth Warner's Vermont Regiment, Continental Army. 
 He was at Bennington, Valley Forge and York town, and 
 served until the close of the war. He also served in the 
 French and Indian War. His wife was Susannah Mahew. 
 The Mahew family was prominent in behalf of the Colonial 
 
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 cause. Rev. Jonathan Mahew, a graduate of Harvard, and 
 for many years, from 1747, Minister of the "West Church," 
 Boston, rendered valuable service to the cause of Indepen- 
 dence. Another, Thomas Mahew, was a Captain in the Con- 
 tinental Army. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Christoplier J\ober/s, a Vermont 
 Ranger, and one of General Allen's guides on the Ticonderoga 
 Expedition. He was a Sergeant in Captain Thomas Burney's 
 Company, Colonel McAUen's Regiment, Vermont Militia. 
 He, with his father and three brothers, was at the battle of 
 Bennington. After the war General of Vermont Militia. 
 
 130 RUTTER, CLEMENT STOCKER. 7330 
 
 Packing Business. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Thomas J^tttfcr, Engaged in 
 operating a Cannon P'oundry and manufacturing heavy ordi- 
 nance for the Province. This foundry was at Philadelphia. 
 March 30, 1776, the Committee of Safety gave Samuel Potts 
 and Thomas Rutter an order on Michael Hillegans, Esq., for 
 one thousand pounds. (This Michael Hillegans was the first 
 Treasurer of the United States). 
 
 98 SAUNDERS, CHARLES W. 6798 
 
 Architect. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi John Hicks^ who was killed 
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while harrassing the retreat of 
 the British from Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775. He 
 assisted in rendering the "Great Bridge" an obstruction to 
 the march of Lord Percy's column, hastening to the relief of 
 Pitcairn. 
 
 9 SAVAGE, GEORGE M. 6709 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Nathan Savage, Orderly Sergeant 
 in Connecticut troops. Continental Line. At the battle of 
 Trenton and at Valley Forge. 
 
 148 SCHULTZ, FREDERICK BAMBER. 7348 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 (1). Great-great-grandson oi Josiali Willard, soldier of the 
 Continental Army for three years, from November, 1777; 
 Made prisoner at Newark, New Jersey, and confined at New 
 York . 
 
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 26 SEARS, ALFRED F., SR. 6726 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 Grandson oi Joseph Sears, soldier in Captain Elisha Hedge's 
 Company of Colonel Nathan Freeman's Regiment of Massa- 
 chusett's troops. Served in Rhode Island and also in the 
 Dartmouth and Falmouth alarms. 
 
 95 SEARS, ALFRED F., JR. 6795 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson o^ Joseph Sears. See No. 26. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Hezekiah Hooper, Lieutenant in 
 Captain Benjamin Washburn's Company of Massachusetts 
 troops. In the summer of 1778 this Company did guard duty 
 in Boston. 
 
 28 SEARS, GEORGE CARLETON. 6728 
 
 County Sheriff. 
 
 (1). Grandson of Silas Sears, soldier in Captain Nathaniel 
 Winslow's Company, Colonel Whitney's Regiment, Massachu- 
 setts troops ; also served in Captain Edward Hammond's 
 Company, Colonel Samuel Fisher's Regiment. He was in 
 the Continental service with the Northern Army, 1780, and 
 served throughout the war. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson of Nathaniel Sears, soldier in Captain 
 Josiah Tatcher's Company, Massachusetts Militia ; with the 
 Second Company of Foot, Captain Nathaniel Hamilton, dur- 
 ing the Lexington alarm, and in Captain Barnabas Daly's 
 Company during the Dartmouth alarm. 
 
 23 SHANE, CARLOS WALSTEIN. 6723 
 
 Notary Public. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Zacheus Cosby, Private in Nelson's Divis- 
 ion, Virginia Militia. At Yorktown and the surrender of 
 Comwallis. 
 
 96 SHARP, FREDERICK DENT. 6796 
 Captain 2oth Infantry U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of George Dent, Lieutenant Third 
 Battalion Maryland troops ; with General Wayne at capture 
 of Stony Point. 
 
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 85 SHERMAN, DANA CARLOS. 6785 
 
 Attorney. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Samuel Sht-niian, Post Rider from 
 Governor of Vermont to Camp Headquarters at Castleton in 
 1781. 
 
 116 SKINNER, PRATT R. 7316 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Israel Skinner, enrolled in Bighth Com- 
 pan}', Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and served as 
 "Wagon Conductor." 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oi John Skinner, Second Lieutenant 
 in Captain Hezekiah Parson's Company, Colonel Benjamin 
 Heinnan's Regiment of Connecticut Militia. Promoted to 
 First Lieutenant, June 20, 1776; also was Purchasing Agent 
 for Commissary Department. 
 
 117 SMITH, EU S. 4317 
 
 Publisher. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Jolin Smith, Private in Captain 
 
 Isaac Bostwick's Company, Seventh Regiment of Connecticut 
 
 troops. Colonel Charles Webb commanding. Lieutenant in 
 
 . Captain Bett's Company, Second Regiment, Connecticut 
 
 troops. He was captured in Tyron's raid on Danbury. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson of Ephriam Smith, Private in 
 Sixth Company, Fifth Regiment, Colonel Waterbury's ; also 
 in Captain Johnson's Company, Colonel Douglass' Battalion 
 of Connecticut troops in the battles of Long Island and 
 White Plains. 
 
 90 SMITH, ISAAC W. 6790 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of Philip Slaughter, Captain in the 
 Seventh Virginia Regiment, Continental Line. See No. 29. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson oi James Slaughter, Colonel com- 
 manding Virginia troops at the battle of Long Bridge, Va. 
 
 24 STEARNS, DORAN H. 6724 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Peter Stearns, Lieutenant Second 
 Company of Colonel Hercules Moone3''s Regiment of New 
 Hampshire Infantrj-. Also served with the Provincial troops 
 against French and Indians 1762. 
 
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 11 STEELE, EGBERT TANGIER SMITH. 6711 
 
 Mining Expert. 
 
 Great-great-grandson o{ Nathaniel Woodhull, Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral of the Suffolk and Queen's County, New York Militia. 
 Member of Provincial Congress, 1775-76. Mortally wounded 
 during operations intended to force the British to abandon 
 Long Island. He died September 20, 1776. 
 
 86 STOUT, JOHN KENNEDY. 6786 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi Scth Miner, Orderly Sergeant 
 of Captain (afterwards General) Jed Huntington's, Connecticut 
 troops, at the siege of Boston, 1775. Ensign First Company, 
 Twentieth Regiment Connecticut Militia, June 14, 1776. This 
 command was in active service a number of times. 
 
 56 STRONG, CURTLS CLARK. 6756 
 
 Physician. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Adonizah Strong, Colonel of Con- 
 necticut Militia in the Bevolutionary War, and Commissary- 
 General in the Army. 
 
 87 STRONG, FREDERICK R. 6787 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of ^</£7«/3a/i .S/rw/^. See No. 56. 
 
 121 STRUDWICK, ROBERT C. 7321 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Shepard Kollock, Lieutenant 
 and Brevet-Captain Second Regiment of Artillery, Continental 
 Line. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 
 67 TAYLOR, HARRY. , 6767 
 
 Lieutenant Corps U. S. Engineers. 
 
 (i) Great-grandson of Joltn Taylor,, Soldier in New 
 Hampshire Line, and with them at West Point, 1780. 
 
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 29 THOMPSON, REGINALD WEST. 6729 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of /V^Vz^^ 67a«^///^r. In Captain John 
 Jameson's Company of Minute Men, attached to the Regiment 
 of Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro ; they joined Patrick Henry's 
 Regiment and forced the Governor, Lord Dunmore, to pay for 
 the powder he had removed from the " Powder Horn " at 
 Williamsburg, in his attempt to disarm the Colonists. A 
 Lieutenant in Captain Gabriel Long's Company of Riflemen; 
 this company joined the army in New York, and were assigned 
 to Colonel Daniel Morgan's Regiment. Promoted to Captain in 
 1778 ; he served throughout the war. At Valley Forge one 
 of his messmates was Lieutenant, afterwards Chief Justice, 
 John Marshall. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson oiJoJin Nixon. A wealthy mer- 
 chant of Philadelphia, and ardent friend of the Colonies. 
 Colonel of a Regiment of Militia, he was with his command at 
 Long Island and Brandywine, and wintered at Valley Forge. 
 
 135 TOLMAN, WARREN W. 7335 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oijohi Tohnaiii,a. Massachusetts Min- 
 ute Man at Lexington, where he was severely wounded. After 
 recovery he joined the Company of Captain Robert Smith, in 
 Colonel William Heath's Regiment. He served throughout 
 the war under Putman, Lovell, Gates and others, and was 
 mustered out with rank of Captain. 
 
 49 TREVETT, THEODORE BROOKS. 6749 
 
 Salesman. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi John Trcz-eft,, Sergeant in Captain 
 Johnson Moulton's Company of Massachusetts Minute Men, 
 1775- 
 
 54 VODGES. ANTHONY WAYNE. 6754 
 
 Captain 5TH Artillery, U. S. Army. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of /F^Y/zaw i%ywa«, who commanded 
 the Privateer " George, " and was an officer in the Provisional 
 Navy, authorized by the Continental Congress. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 27 WAIT. AARON EMMONS. 6725 
 
 Ex-JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME CoURT OF OREGON. 
 (i). Grandson o{ Joel Wait, Private in the Whatley Com- 
 pany of Massachusetts Minute Men, Captain Stiles com- 
 manding, at the Lexington alarm. In Captain Seth Murray's 
 Company on the Fort Edwards expedition ; also Private in 
 Captain S. White's Company of Massachusetts Baj- Militia 
 on the expedition to Saratoga. 
 
 4 WAIT, CHARLES N. 6704 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Joel Wait. See No. 27. 
 
 31 WAIT, ROBERT LEE. 6731 
 
 Dentist. 
 
 (i). Great-Grandson of /o^/ Wait. See No. 27. 
 
 37 . WELLS, HARRY L. 6737 
 
 Journalist. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson oi Josiah Pierce, Private in Massachu- 
 setts Militia at the battle of Bunker Hill ; a Revolutionary 
 Pensioner because of service. 
 
 WEST, FRANCIS HENRY. 6789 
 
 (1). Great-grandson of William West, who was Captain 
 Third Pennsylvania Battalion, Continental Line, January 5, 
 1776; Major, October 25, 1776. Taken prisoner at Fort Wash- 
 ington, November, 1776. He also served in the Quartermas- 
 ter's department. 
 
 (2). Great-grandson oi John Nixon. See No. 29. 
 
 136 WHITTLE, GEORGE HASWELL. 7336 
 
 Agent N. P. E. Co. 
 
 (i). Great-grandson of Thomas Whittle, Private in Captain 
 Ford's Company, Colonel Nichols' Regiment of New Hamp- 
 shire troops, and present at the battle of Bennington. 
 
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 state No. National No. 
 
 84 WILLIAMS, GEORGE H. 6784 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Noah Goodrkh, of Lenox, Massachusetts, 
 Soldier in Captain Ashley's Company of Colonel Vose's Regi- 
 ment of Massachusetts troops from January i, 1777, to 
 December 31, 1780. It is quite probable he served in other 
 organizations and was at Bunker Hill and Long Island. 
 
 40 WITHINGTON, GEORGE EDWARD. 6740 
 
 Bank Cashier. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson of Peter IVithington, Captain in 
 the Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line, 
 December 18, 1776. 
 
 131 WITHINGTON, AMORY HOLBROOK. 7331 
 
 Deputy Clerk of Court. 
 
 ( I ) . Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Peter IVithington . 
 See No. 40. 
 
 (2). Great-great-grandson oi Nicholas Broughton, Sr., Cap- 
 tain and Major. See No. 3. 
 
 (3). Great-great-great-grandson oi Johti Glover^ Colonel of 
 the famous "Marine Regiment" of Marblehead, Massachusetts. 
 It saved the American Army at Long Island. Was at the 
 crossing of the Deleware to Trenton , and from Harlem Heights 
 to Saratoga. See (3) No. 3. 
 
 70 
 
 WOODWARD, TYLER. 6770 
 
 Banker. 
 
 (i). Grandson of Gideon IVooJivard, Private in Captain 
 James Morgan's Company, Colonel Prentiss' Eighth New York 
 Regiment, 1776-1781. 
 
 128 YOUNG, EDWARD WELDON. 7328 
 
 Physician. 
 
 (i). Great-great-grandson oi fames Young, a soldier in the 
 Pennsylvania Continental Line. He participated in the bat- 
 tles of Brandy wine, Germantown, Monmouth and Cowpens, 
 and was at Valley Forge encampment. He had the rank ol 
 Captain in Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's Artillery Artificer 
 Regiment from August i, I777- He lived to be 109 years of 
 age. 
 
Note: — Members will please notify the Secretary of their respective So- 
 cieties of any errors or omissions in the foregoing record. 
 
NECROLOGICAL. 
 
 Since its organization the Societj- has lost two members by 
 death, Mr. Lloyd Brooke and Mr. Hiram Cochran. Ex-Gover- 
 nor LaFayette Grover, for many years his intimate friend, kindly 
 furnished the following biographical sketch of Mr. Brooke: 
 
 Lloyd Brooke was born at Oak Hill, Montgomery County, Maryland, 
 Juh' 6, 1819, and died at his residence in Portland, Oregon, May 29, 1893, 
 in the seventy-fourth year of his age. 
 
 He was the third son of Thomas Alexander Brooke and Henrietta M., 
 daughter of Major Lloyd Beall. The families of Brooke and Beall were 
 among the earliest and most prominent of the Colonial period of Mary- 
 land, and their descendants have been intimately connected with the de- 
 velopment of that State. Mr. Brooke, at an early age, became connected 
 with the War Department at Washington, D. C. He also took part in the 
 Seminole Indian war in Florida. He came to Oregon in 1849, ^^ the em- 
 ployment of the U. S. Quartermaster's Department, and for many years 
 was the chief business agent of that Department at Fort Vancouver, con- 
 tinuing his connection with it until he desired to retire from active busi- 
 ness life. In the meantime he engaged in several business enterprises, of 
 which one was the establishment of a cattle ranch in Eastern Oregon in 
 1854. This proved to be unfortunate, for during the Indian hostilities of 
 1855-6, the Indians drove off or killed his cattle and burned his buildings. 
 With this exception, however, Mr. Brooke was generally successful in his 
 business enterprises. 
 
 Mr. Brooke was married to the daughter of General Edward Hamilton, 
 one of the earliest Secretaries of the Territory of Oregon. General Hamil- 
 ton was a native of Virginia, and his daughter was a woman of the highest 
 accomplishments and graces, of rare and genuine qualities, which were ex- 
 hibited in her social intercourse, in her religious duties, and above all in 
 her home life. Her death preceded that of her husband by several years' 
 The issue of this marriage were four sons and one daughter, namely: 
 
 Edward Heath Brooke, First Lieutenant 21st Infantry U. S. Army. 
 
 Hamilton Eastham Brooke. 
 
 Henrietta Beall Brooke, wife of Lieutenant J. S. Parke, U. S. Army. 
 
 John M. Brooke, M. D. 
 
 Thomas Scott Brooke. 
 
 Mr. Brooke was the first Vice President of the Oregon and Washington 
 Society Sons of the American Revolution, a communicant of the Episcopal 
 
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 church, and for many years a vestryman of Trinity. Naturally of retiring 
 habits he never sought notoriety, but was ever ready to join in the promo- 
 tion of the good of his city and state. Especially was he a true and faith- 
 ful friend, and a helper of the helpless. His generous qualities were well 
 known, and often drawn upon in the promotion of worthy objects. 
 Through a life of prudence and diligence he amassed a competenc}' which 
 rendered his later years comfortable, and enabled him to leave his family 
 a goodly heritage, but best of all he has left them a good name. 
 
 We are indebted to Dr. W. E. Carll for the following .sketch: 
 
 Hiram Cochran was born at Cochranton, Crawford County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, August 30, 1833, and died at Oregon City, Oregon, August 22, 1895. 
 He was the sou of Alexander and Margaret Cochran, grandson of Charles 
 Cochran, who served in the War of the Revolution and also in the War of 
 181 2, and great-grandson of James Cochran. His great-grandfather came 
 from Virginia to Westmoreland, now Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 
 where he purchased large tracts of land and permanently located. 
 
 Hiram Cochran passed some time at college, but his tastes being for 
 mechanical pursuits he left school and became a skilled mechanic. Decid- 
 ing to seek fortune in the far West, he crossed the plains and reached Ore- 
 gon September 19, 1852. Here he easily found remunerative employment. 
 After two years he purchased property and located at Vancouver, Wash- 
 ington, where he became one of the leading citizens. For many years he 
 had charge of construction at Vancouver Barracks. In 1859 he married 
 Miss Fannie L. Kell}^ daughter of Captain William Kelly, U. S. Army. 
 She and six daughters survive him. During the period of 1862-1870, Mr. 
 Cochran was Postmaster at Vancouver, and served a full term in each 
 house of the Territorial Legislature. In 1871 his business interests induced 
 him to locate at Oregon City. During his residence there he wes repeatedly 
 chosen by his fellow citizens to positions of honor and trust, as School Di- 
 rector, Councilman and Mayor. He was always faithful to every duty, and 
 earnestly sought to obey the precept of the Golden Rule. 
 
REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORvS. p^g^ 
 
 Adair, John South Carolina 36 
 
 Alston , William North Carolina 37 
 
 Anderson , Richard Clougli Virginia i 
 
 Applegate, Richard New Jersey 32 
 
 Applegate, Daniel New Jersey 32 
 
 Arnold, William Rhode Island 32 
 
 Arnold, Calieb Rhode Island 32 
 
 Arnold .Jonathan . Connecticut 33 
 
 Baker, Henry Maryland 52 
 
 Baldwin, Peleg Connecticut 45 
 
 Barrett, John Vermont 54 
 
 Barrett, Thomas Vermont 54 
 
 Bartholomew, Joseph Connecticut 34 
 
 Bateman , Zadoc Massachusetts 34 
 
 Beall , lyloyd Maryland 34 
 
 Bellinger, Henry New York 35 
 
 Borthwick, James New York 35 
 
 Borthwick, George New York 35 
 
 Boynton, John Massachusetts 36 
 
 Braxton , Carter Virginia 36 
 
 Brockenbrough, John Virginia 36 
 
 Broughton, Nicholson, >Sr Massachusetts .50 
 
 Broughton, Nicholson , Jr Massachusetts 50 
 
 Brown, William Connecticut 45 
 
 Burnap, Ebenezer Massachusetts 42 
 
 Bush , Abijah Massachusetts 43 
 
 Bushnell, John Handley Connecticut 35 
 
 Cabell, Nicholas Virginia 37 
 
 Cabell, William Virginia 39 
 
 Cardwell, Perrin Virginia 37 
 
 Carll, Robert Massachusetts 37 
 
 Carll, John Massachusetts 37 
 
 Carpenter, William New Jersey 38 
 
 Carter, Hill Virginia 38 
 
 Carey, Archibald Virginia 46 
 
 Carroll, Daniel Maryland 42 
 
 Chambers, David New Jersey 49 
 
 Claghorn, James Vermont ; 32 
 
 Clapp, Joseph New York 38 
 
 Clark, Samuel Rhode Island 46 
 
 Clarke, Abraham New Jersey 38 
 
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 Page 
 
 Clarke, Noah New Jersey 39 
 
 Cochran, Charles Pennsylvania 39 
 
 Cosby Zacheus Virginia 56 
 
 Cook, Thaddeus Connecticut 41 
 
 Cooper, Frederick Pennsylvania and North Carolina. .39 
 
 Davis, James North Carolina 52 
 
 Dent, George Maryland 56 
 
 DePauw, Charles France 43 
 
 Dodge, Robert Massachusetts 40 
 
 Elliott, Barnard South Carolina 44 
 
 Emery, Josiah New Hampshire 42 
 
 Fisher, Henry Delaware 53 
 
 Freeman, Isaac, Massachusetts 42 
 
 Furman , Samuel New York 48 
 
 Gadsden, Christopher South Carolina 47 
 
 Gamble, Robert, Virginia 
 
 Glover, John Massachusetts 50 
 
 Goodrich, Noah Massachusetts 61 
 
 Goodell, Abner Massachusetts 43 
 
 Greenleaf , Israel Massachusetts. 44 
 
 Grover, John Massachusetts 44 
 
 Habersham, James Georgia 44 
 
 Hall, James Massachusetts 45 
 
 Hall, Joseph New Hampshire 40 
 
 Hall, William New Hampshire 40 
 
 Hall, John New Hampshire 41 
 
 Hall, Daniel New Hampshire 41 
 
 Hamilton, Andrew, South Carolina 37 
 
 Harding, Thomas Pennsylvania and Connecticut. . . .45 
 
 Hart, John New Jersey 35 
 
 Hart, Joseph New Jersey 38 
 
 Harrison, Carter Henry Virginia 46 
 
 Hasbrouck , Abraham New York 46 
 
 Hasbrouck, Joseph New York 46 
 
 Hayman, William, 59 
 
 Heath, William Massachusetts 48 
 
 Hicks, John Massachusetts 55 
 
 Holgate, Mathew Pennsylvania 45 
 
 Howell, John New Jersey 51 
 
 Howes, Jeremiah Massachusetts 47 
 
 Hoyt, Stephen New Hampshire 47 
 
 Hoyt, Daniel Connecticut 47 
 
 Hooper, Hezekiah Massachusetts 56 
 
 Kellogg, Preserved Vermont 32 
 
 King, Benjamin Massachusetts 48 
 
 King, George Massachusetts 48 
 
 Kirkland, John Massachusetts 48 
 
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 Page 
 
 Kollock, Shepard New Jersey 4S 
 
 Lee, Henr}' Virginia 53 
 
 Lee, Jared Connecticut 49 
 
 Lee, Amos Connecticut 49 
 
 Lindsley, Aaron New Jersey 49 
 
 Little, Moess Massachusetts 34 
 
 Littlefield, Aaron Massachusetts 50 
 
 Lord, Tobias Maine (Connecticut) 43 
 
 Lord , John Maine (Connecticut) 43 
 
 Madison , William Virginia 40 
 
 Malcolm, William New York ■ ■ 5^) 
 
 Marshall, Thomas Virginia 51 
 
 Maxwell, Hugh Massachusetts 48 
 
 Maxwell, John New Jersej- 51 
 
 Miller, James Rhode Island 42 
 
 Miner, Seth Connecticut 58 
 
 Moffett, George Virginia 51 
 
 Muir, Francis Massachusetts 52 
 
 Muirhead, George . .New Jersey 51 
 
 McCamant, James Pennsylvania 52 
 
 McDowell, John Pennsylvania 54 
 
 McKinstry, Charles New York 53 
 
 Nixon, John Pennsylvania 59 
 
 Overton, Thomas Virginia 53 
 
 Page, John Virginia 53 
 
 Pierce, Josiah Massachusetts 60 
 
 Pope, William Virginia 40 
 
 Potter, Jared Connecticut 40 
 
 PhiUps, Joseph Pennsylvania 54 
 
 Philip, George New York 36 
 
 Paddock, Henry New York 53 
 
 Ray, John New Hampshire 41 
 
 Reed, Joshua Massachusetts 51 
 
 Reynolds, John Maryland 54 
 
 Roberts, Christopher Vermont 55 
 
 Roberts, John Vermont 54 
 
 Ross, John Pennsylvania 39 
 
 Rounds, Bertram Rhode Island 46 
 
 Rutter, Thomas Pennsylvania 55 
 
 Saltonstall, Gurdon New Hampshire 38 
 
 Savage, Nathan Connecticut 55 
 
 Saxton, John Massachusetts 33 
 
 Schuyler, Philip New York 50 
 
 Sears, Silas Massachusetts 56 
 
 Sears, Nathaniel Massachusetts 56 
 
 Sears, Joseph Massachusetts 56 
 
 Shead, Ephraim Massachusetts 33 
 
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 Page 
 
 Sherman, Roger Massachusetts 50 
 
 Sherman , John Massachusetts 50 
 
 Sherman Samuel Vermont 57 
 
 Skinner, Israel Connecticut 57 
 
 Skinner, John Connecticut 57 
 
 Slaughter, Philip Virginia 57 
 
 Slaughter, James Virginia 57 
 
 Smith , John Connecticut 57 
 
 Smith, Ephraim Connecticut 57 
 
 Stalus, John Massachusetts 46 
 
 Stearns, Peter New Hampshire 57 
 
 Stephens, Aaron New Hampshire 42 
 
 Strong, Adonizah Connecticut 58 
 
 Taylor, John New Hampshire 58 
 
 Tolman , John Massachusetts 59 
 
 Trevett, John Massachusetts 59 
 
 Voorhees, Abraham New Jersey 41 
 
 Wade, John Georgia 44 
 
 Wait, Joel Massachusetts 60 
 
 West, William Pennsylvania 60 
 
 Wetherel, Charles Massacliusetts. . . ." 41 
 
 Weeks, Thomas Massachusetts 43 
 
 Wheaton, Joseph Rhode Island 35 
 
 Whittle, Thomas Massachusetts 60 
 
 Willard, Josiah Massachusetts 55 
 
 Willey , Abraham Connecticut 43 
 
 Withington, Peter Pennsylvania 61 
 
 Worthington, Thomas Maryland 54 
 
 WoodhuU, Nathaniel New York 58 
 
 Woodward, Gideon New- York 61 
 
 Young, James Pennsylvania 61 
 
ORGANIZATION OF THE WASHINGTON SOCIETY. 
 
 The compatriots residing in the State of Washington had 
 long felt that they should have a separate Society. The distance 
 many of them had to travel was a serious obstacle to their 
 attending meetings held in Portland. The prosperity of the 
 Society at large, they felt, would best be promoted by organizing 
 another Society nearer home. State pride, very justly, de- 
 manded a separate organization. The Board of Management 
 promised to demit all members residing in the State who wished 
 to form such a Society, or enter it after it was formed. Dr. E. 
 Weldon Young and Mr. A. S. Gibbs, of Seattle, then earnestly 
 labored in various parts of the State to create and to confirm a 
 strong sentiment in favor of a Washington Society. In this 
 they were deservedly successful. A meeting was finally called 
 to be held at Seattle, June 17, 1895. Some sixty eligible gen- 
 tlemen were present, many of whom had been demitted for the 
 purpose, and they at once proceeded to organize the Washington 
 Society. 
 
 The officers selected are a presage of the Society's pros- 
 perity. They are : 
 
 President ColoneIv S. W. Scott. 
 
 First Vice President Colonel J. Kennedy Stout. 
 
 Second Vice President Rev. A. N. Thompson, D. I). 
 
 Secretary ^^- A- S- Gibbs. 
 
 Treasurer Judge J. B. HowE. 
 
 Registrar Dr. E. Weldon Young. 
 
 ; Arthur W. Doland, 
 I Hon. John F. Gowey, 
 1 Judge C. H. Hanford, 
 
 Managers < j h. S. Bartholomew, 
 
 Dr. S. J. Holmes, 
 E. S. Smith. 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS OF OREGON SOCIETY. 
 
 Anderson, Thomas M Vancouver Barracks, Washington. 
 
 Allen, Ethan W .Portland. 
 
 Alvord, William C First National Bank, City. 
 
 Applegate, Oliver C Olene, Oregon. 
 
 Applegate, Lucien, B Klamath Falls, Oregon. 
 
 Applegate, Ivan D Klamath Falls, Oregon. 
 
 Applegate, E.I Klamath F'alls, Oregon. 
 
 Arnold, Frederick K No. 275 Stark St., City. 
 
 Arnold, Hosmer K No. 275 Stark St., City. 
 
 Atkinson, Josiah L No. 385 Third St., City. 
 
 Beall, Hamilton, M Albany, Oregon. 
 
 Bellinger, Oscar H No. 433 Holladay Ave. , City. 
 
 Borthwick, Alex E Stark and Sixth Sts., City. 
 
 Borthwick, Calvin Cornwallaville, New York. 
 
 Boyer, John A Jacksonville, Oregon. 
 
 Bradley, Frank E Puyallup, Washington. 
 
 Brenham, Robert B Honolulu. 
 
 Brockenbrough, John B Roseburg, Oregon. 
 
 Brooke, Edward H Plattsburg, New York. 
 
 Cabell, Henry C Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 
 
 Cardwell, Byron P Hamilton Building, City. 
 
 Card well, James R Oregonian Building, City. 
 
 Carll, Walter E Oregon City, Oregon. 
 
 Carpenter, Gilbert S Fort Spokane, Washington. 
 
 Carter, Charles H Pendleton, Oregon. 
 
 Carter, E. C Fort Buford, South Dakota. 
 
 Chapin, Willard H No. 580 Fourth St. City. 
 
 Clapp, J. M No. 22 Twentieth St. N., City. 
 
 Clarke, Louis G First and Alder Sts. City. 
 
 Clarkson, David M Worcester Block, City. 
 
 Cooper, J. C McMinnville, Oregon. 
 
 Curtis, Edward D Clackamas, Oregon. 
 
 Dabney, Percy P Chamber of Commerce Bldg., City. 
 
 Dodge, Francis S Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
 Eckerson, Theodore J No. 575 Couch St., City. 
 
 Eckerson, Theodore H No. 575 Couch St. , City. 
 
 Eckerson, Rufus I Washington Building, City. 
 
 Fay, Charles L Washington Building, City. 
 
 Freeman, George W No. 314 Grand Ave. N., City. 
 
 French, John W Fort Clark, Texas. 
 
 Gile, Henry S '. . . .No. 686 Everett St., City. 
 
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 Godell, Gorhatn B No. 779 Johnson St., City. 
 
 Greene, Thomas G Worcester Block, City. 
 
 Greenleaf, Robert S No. 105 Eighteenth St. N., City. 
 
 Grover, LaFayette No. 153 Sixteent") St , N., City. 
 
 Habersham, John P Helena, Montana. 
 
 Habersham, Robert A No. 1049 Corbett St., City. 
 
 Harding, Franklin S McMinnville, Oregon. 
 
 Harrison, Cary Heth No. 675 East Stark St., City. 
 
 Hasbrouck, Alfred, Jr Poughkeepsie, New York. 
 
 Hines, Harve)' K University Park, Portland. 
 
 Houghton , Ross C Canisteo, New York. 
 
 Howes, Thomas B No. 355 Alder St., City. 
 
 Hoyt, Richard No. 735 Hoyt St., City. 
 
 Hoyt, Ralph W Merchants' National Bank, City. 
 
 Hunt, George No. 347 Market St. , City. 
 
 Kollock, Frederick N No. 246 Stark St., City. 
 
 Lamberson, Buell No. 385 Tenth St. , City. 
 
 Lamberson, Lewis H No. 38 Twenty-First St. N. , City. 
 
 Lewis, Cicero H No. 46 Front St. , City. 
 
 Littlefield, Roger S Bandon, Oregon. 
 
 Malcolm, Philip S No. 131 Sixth St., City. 
 
 Mann, Gilbert S No. 87 Front St., City. 
 
 Marshall, J. M Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 
 
 Moffett, Geo. H 
 
 Moody, Lucius W 706 Flanders St., City. 
 
 Muir, William T 213 13th St., City. 
 
 McCamant, Wallace Concord Building, City. 
 
 McKee, Edward D U. S. Court House, City. 
 
 McKenna, Clement L University Park, City. 
 
 McKenna, Francis I Chamber of Commerce Bl'dg., City. 
 
 McKim, Maurice Worcester Building, City. 
 
 Overton, Clough Fort Walla Walla, Wash. 
 
 Paddock, Robert G City. 
 
 Page, Wilmer L 455 Alder St., City. 
 
 Pettingill, Samuel B Tacoma, Wash. 
 
 Philips, John K University Park, City. 
 
 Phillips, Thomas H Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Reynolds, Charles R Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 
 
 Reed, Sanderson 691 Lovejoy St., City. 
 
 Roberts, Benjamin K Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Schultz, Frederick B No. 683 vSecond St., City. 
 
 Sears, Alfred F., Sr 15 Courtlandt St., New York. 
 
 Sears, Alfred F., Jr 10S6 Front St., City. 
 
 Sears, George C Montgomery and Twelfth Sts., City. 
 
 vSherman, Dana C Salem, Oregon. 
 
 Skinner, Pratt R 1 75 Tenth St. , City. 
 
 Smith, Isaac W 122 East Twelfth St. , City. 
 
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 vStearns, Doran H Chamber of Commerce Bld'g. , City. 
 
 Strong, Curtis C Abington Block, Cit}'. 
 
 Strong, Frederick R Labbe Block, City- 
 Taylor, Harry 435 Alder St., City. 
 
 Thompson, R. W A. O. U. W. Temple, City. 
 
 Trevett, Theo. Brooks No. 777 Flanders St., City. 
 
 Vodges, Anthony W Alcatraz Island, Cal. 
 
 Wait, Aaron E Sixth and Market Sts. , City. 
 
 Wait, Chas. N Washington Building, City. 
 
 Wait, Robert L First and Yamhill Sts., City. 
 
 Wells, Harry L 773 Pettigrove St., City. 
 
 West, Francis H 122 East Twelfth St. , City. 
 
 Williams, Geo. H Chamber of Commerce Bld'g. , City. 
 
 Withington, Geo. E First National Bank, City. 
 
 Withington, Amory H 308 Salmon St. , City. 
 
 Woodward, Tyler U.S. National Bank City. 
 
 MEMBERS DEMITTED. 
 
 TO WASHINGTON SOCIETY. 
 
 Alexander, Geo. Nell No, 105 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Bartholemew, James H. S Monte Cristo, Wash. 
 
 Blanchard, Carlisle P No. 1005 McClair St., Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Boynton, Chas. H Tacoma, Wash. 
 
 Cutter, Kirtland K Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Doland, Arthur W Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Doolittle, George T Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Edes, William H Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Ellicott, Salvador vSeattle, Wash. 
 
 Emery, CD Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Gibbs, Arthur S Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Gowey, John F Olympia, Wash. 
 
 Gowey, F^rank M Olympia, Wash. 
 
 Hall, Henry K Port Blakely, Wash. 
 
 Hall ,^ames W Port Blakely, Wash. 
 
 Hanford, Frank Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Hanford, Clarence Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Hanford, Arthur E Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Howe, James B Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Hoyt, Henry M Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Kirkland, Eugene H Colfax, Wash. 
 
 Kirkland, Arthur E Colfax, Wash. 
 
 Lee, Chester F Princeton, Idaho. ; 
 
 Lindsley, Addison A Olympia, Wash. 
 
 Maxwell, W^illiam H Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Rutter, Clement S Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Saunders, Charles W Seattle. Wash. 
 
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 Savage, George M Olympia, Wash. 
 
 Shane, Carlos W Vancouver, Wash. 
 
 Smith, E. S Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Steele, Egbert T. S Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Stout, J. Kennedy Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Strudwick, Robert C Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Tolman, Warren W Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Whittle, Geo. Haswell Spokane, Wash, 
 
 Young, E. Weldon Seattle, Wash. 
 
 TO MONTANA SOCIETY. 
 
 Bateman, Cephas C . .Fort Assinboine, Montana. 
 
 Sharp, Frederick Dent Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
 TO MAINE SOCIETY. 
 King, Henry P Portland, Maine. 
 
 TO MARYLAND SOCIETY. 
 Lazarus, Edgar M Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 TO CALIFORNIA SOCIETY. 
 
 McKinstry, J. C San Francisco, California. 
 
 MEMBERS DECEASED. 
 Brooke, Lloyd. Cochran, Hiram. 
 
 Dropped from rolls — 2. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 Remaining on Roll 104 
 
 Demitted to Washington Society 36 
 
 Demitted to other Societies 5 
 
 Deceased 2 
 
 Dropped 2 
 
 Total 149 
 
 HINTS TO MEMBERS. 
 
 L^ook among your friends and acquaintances for gentlemen 
 who are eligible to membership, and endeavor to induce them 
 to join with us. 
 
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 The Board of Managers has been expending money in the 
 purchase of books, published b}^ some of the old Thirteen States, 
 setting forth with considerable completeness the names and 
 records of Revolutionary patriots. The library already includes 
 the Connecticut and New York books, each containing more 
 than twenty-five thousand names, besides Heitman's Register of 
 the Officers of the Continental Army. In the course of a few 
 months it is expected to add to these the New Jersey Book, the 
 New Hampshire Book, Saffell's Revolutionary Record, and the 
 Rhode Island and Pennsylvania Books. If applicants for mem- 
 bership can give the names and residences of their ancestors it 
 will be possible for members of the Society by the aid of these 
 records in a majority of cases to secure for them the needed 
 proofs. 
 
 Notify your Secretary of any change in your address. 
 
 Pay your dues as promptly as possible to your Treasurer. 
 
 Promptly reply to letters received from the Officers of your 
 
 vSociety. 
 
 Provide yourself with the Rosette of the Society and wear it. 
 Your Secretary or Registrar furnishes them at 25 cents each. 
 
 The Certificate of Membership is appropriate and beautiful, 
 and should be held by every member. They cost $1.00 and are 
 prepared by the National Society. Apply to your Secretary 
 for it. 
 
 The Badge of the Society is of gold and sterling silver. It 
 costs $9.00. Obtain a permit for one from your Secretary. You 
 will send this with the price of the badge to Tiffiiny & Co., New 
 York. They will send you the badge with your number 
 engraved thereon without further expense to you. 
 
 Make it a point to attend all meetings of your Chapter and 
 Society. 
 
 Be active and earnest in disseminating American principles. 
 
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