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SONS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION of Jolm Brackett, Pri,Ate, Captain Ebenezer Sullivan's Company, James Scam 22 OFFICIAL BUlLETIN PAL~IER PARKER WOODS, 'Iahukona, Hawaii (t4637). Son of James and ~Tary (Parker) Woods; grandson of John and IIanai l'arker; great·grandson of John and Kipikane Parker; great'·grandson of Samuel Parker, private :\lass. NATIONAL SOCIETY troops; great3.grandson of Ebcuc~er Pa,.kcr, private ~ewton, 1\lass., Company, ma;ched at Lexington Alarm. OF THE HORACE LEMUI~L WORCESTER, Rochester, N. H. (Mass., t8223). Son of Lemuel and Margaret (Pray) Worcester; grandson of Chadbourne and Abigail (Brackett) Pray; great·grandson of James and Anna Brackett; great'·grandson SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION of Jolm Brackett, pri,ate, Captain Ebenezer Sullivan's Company, James Scam. man's Mass. Regt. JTF,NRY YOUNGS, Denver, Colo. (17381). Son of Oliver and l\Taria (de Yong) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL Youngs; grandson of Hcrtr)' Yourtgs, pri\·ate Fir.t and Fifth Regis. Orange County, New YMk, i\Jilitia. Preoident General Hon. Cornelius A. Pug.!ey New York WASHINGTON, D. C., December IS, Igo6. [.. OFFICIAL BULLETIN The OFFICIAL BULLETIN, issued from time to time as may seem expedient, contains information as to official action by the General offi­ c<'rs. the Board of Managers, the Executive and other National Com­ mittees, notice of members deceased, records of new members enrolled by the Regi trar General, and changes in officers and important doings of State Societies. State Secretaries are requested to promptly communicate to the Sec­ retary General brief abstracts of meetings or celebrations by their Soci­ eties. Information is desired as to newspapers devoting space to patriotic societies on certain days of each week. The Bur.r.ETIN is sent to the General officers and Managers and the National Committees, to new members who e records are printed therein, to a number of newspapers, and a moderate supply to State Secretaries for general distribution. Additional copies will be furnished to State Societies, in any number desired, at three cents each. The Congress of I907 will be held in Denver, Colorado. L·coRPOR.\TJON.-The first meeting of the corporators of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, duly called under the It provisions of section s of the Act of Congress approved June 9, I gOO (sec National Year Book for I gOO, pp. 94--¢), was held at the New Willard Ilotel in the City of Washington on November I7, IgOO. A 'l ) OFF'lClAL llULU't I ' NATIONAL SOCIE'l'Y, S. A. R. 3 number of the corporators named in the -barter w 're present, and the ing the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution "a meeting was organized by the election of Hon. M<.rris B. Beardsley as bodY corporate and politic, in the City of Washington, in the District of Chairman and Mr. A. Howard Clark as Secretarv Resolutions offered Columbia"; that the charter had been formally accepted by the Corpora­ by Hon. Henry Stockbridge were duly seconded nd adopted, accepting tors at a meeting held in Washington, November 17; and that a cer­ the charter of incorporation granted by Cougre s, and authorizing and tificate of acceptance of the charter had been duly filed in the office of directing the President and Secretary of the mee mg, and of the corpora­ the Secretary of State. Mr. Beardsley reported that the corporators had tion when elected, to execute and file in the ffice of the Secretary of adopted a temporary Constitution and By-Laws and had elected officers State a certificate of the acceptance of the charter conformably to the to serve until the annual meeting of the Corporation, to be held at the provisions of section 6 of the Act. time of the next annual Congress of the National Society. A Constitution and By-Laws were then aJopted and officers elected After consideration of the report of Mr. Beardsley it was voted that to serve until the next annual meeting o the corporation, to be held at the Committee on Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, authorized the time of the Annual Congress of the .National Society. The officers by the Boston Congress, be requested in their work of revision to devise ,/ of the corporation elected were a President, five Vice-Presidents, a a practical plan for the consolidation of the Corporation and the present Secretary and a Treasurer, being the same persons as the corresponding National Society. It was voted that Mr. Stockbridge be added to the General officers of the National Society Revision Committee. The certificate of acceptance of the charter, signed by Morris B. The Chairman of the Committee on Education, in a letter to the Beardsley, A. Howard Clark, and Cornelius A. Pugsley, was filed in the President General, reported progress, and it was voted that it be sug­ office of the Secretary of State on November 23, r9Q6, thus perfecting gested to that Committee to make arrangements through State Boards of the corporation. Education for such instruction in public schools as shall teach true citizenship, and that the Committee formulate a plan for a wide distribu­ tion of the Society's tract on "A welcome to immigrants, and some good MEJ;;TINC oF G~N£RAI. MANAC~RS AND ExECuTIV~ CoMMITT~~ No~MBER advice," through the United States Immigration Bureau. 26, I9Q(i. Mr. Ross, for the Recruiting Committee, reported that letters had been A meeting of the General Managers and the Executive Committee of received looking to the formation of new societies in Mississippi and the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, duly some other States, and that interest was being aroused in North Caro­ called by the President General, certified by the Secretary General under lina, South Carolina, and North Dakota. the provisions of Art. V, Sec. 2 of the Constitution, was held at the Commander Moore, for the Naval Records Committee, reported that Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, at 2 o'clock p.m., November 26, the measure recommended by the Boston Congress had been enacted rgo6. Those present were President General C. A. Pugsley, presiding; into law and that the Secretary of the Navy was taking steps to bring Vice-Presidents General Dr. Moses G. Parker, Hon. Henry Stockbridge, together the Naval records of the Revolutionary War. and Mr. Andrew W. Bray; Secretary General A. Howard Clark; Treas­ Mr. Joslin reported that the Publication Committee had formulated a urer General I. W. Birdseye; President J. H. Moore of the District of plan for publishing National and tate Society news in an OFFICIAr, Columbia Society; President William A. Marble, of the Empire State Bui.I.ETIN, the first one having beett issued under date of October rs. It Society; Mr. Nelson A. McClary, Mr. Trueman G. Avery, Gen. Edwin S. i proposed to distribute the BuLt.UtN as widely as the resources of the Greeley, and Mr. H. V. A. Joslin, members of the Executive Committee; National Society will permit and, with the cooperation of any State also Hon. Morris B. Beardsley, Chairman of the Charter Committee, Societies, it may be sent to all the individual members thereof. Howard De Haven Ross, Chairman of the Recruiting Committee, and After careful consideration and full discussion of invitations to hold Vice-President L. B. Curtis of the Connecticut Society. the Congress of 1907 in Norfolk, Buffalo, and Denver, and other locali- / The minutes of the meeting of the General Managers held in Boston, ties, it was decided that the next Congress should be held in the far May I, r9Q6, were approved. West, and it was thereupon voted to accept the invitation of the Colo- Mr. Beardsley reported for the Charter Committee that on June 9. rado Society and to hold the Eighteenth Congress in the City of Denver. r9Q6, President Roosevelt had approved the Act of Congress constitut- It was voted that $soo be appropriated toward the expenses of the Denver Congress. NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 5 4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN 11 done· there is much which is of equal importance. The condition Mr. W. H. Bayly, Commander J. H . Moore, and Mr. A. Howard wt our co~ntry, subject as it is and will be to the influx of vast hordes Clark were appointed a Committee to investigate and report to the next 0 f not too desirable foreigners, needs the constant care of our best Congress upon the advisability, practicability, and possibility of estab­ ~ople · unless we can Americanize them they will ruin us. To no set of lishing and maintaining in conjunction with other similar organizations ople 'does the task appeal so much as to the descendat;~ts of early set­ rers. Patriotic societies can do no nobler work-Morns B. Beardsley, in the City of Washington a central Bureau of Records, Research, and Bridgeport, Conn. Information on the plan proposed by the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of My idea of what can be done IS somethmg hke th1s: to have prmted a the Ohio Society at the Boston Congress. mph let embodying a brief statement of the views of the Committee; The resolution offered at the Boston Congress to make and establish ~ggestions as to the study of local obligations and special meetings for the purpose. Statements also as to possible work in public schools.-W. the twenty-third of September as a day to be annually commemorated by J{. Wickes, Syracuse, N. Y. the Navy of the United States, to be known as "Paul Jones Day," was The watchword of the Society should be "Patriotic Education,'' with referred to the Naval Records Committee for consideration and report. emphasis on both words.-Dr.
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