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OFFICI AL BULLETIN Of' THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OP"' THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION President General Organized April 30, 1889 R C. Ballard Thruston, Louisville, Ky. Incorporated by Act of Con11ress June 9, 1906 OCTOBER, 1913 Number 2 Published at the office of the Secretary General (A. Howard Clark, Smithsonian Instl· a.tJonl. Washington. D. C., in June, October, December, and March. Entered as second-class matter, May 7, xgo8, at the post·oftice at Washincton, D. C., under the Act of July t6, t8g~. TnE OFFICIAL BuLLETIN records action by the General Officers, the Board of Trustees, the Executive and other National Committees, lists of members deceased and of new members, and important doings of State Societies. Secretaries of State Societies and of Local Chapters are requested to communicate to the Secretary General written or printed accounts of all meetings or celebrations, and to promptly for ward copies of all notices, circulars, and other printed matter issued by them, an d to notify him at once of dates of death of members. "Our inspiration is from the past, our work today, and our purpose for the future. " PATRIOTIC EDUCATIO . One of the most important needs of the day is the arousing of a more general, wide-awake patriotism. The spirit of it, to be lasting, must be instilled in the children of the present, to bear fruit in the days to come. This aim our Committee on Education has had before it, ut the success of its efforts has thus far fallen short of its hopes and anticipations. These facts have given rise to a feeling among some of the members of the Society that either the most effective method .of interesting the great body of school children in the study of American history has not 2 OFFICIAL BULLETIN N.\TION.\L SOCIETY, S. A. R. 3 yet been employed, or that there has been a failure to secure the prop co-operation of the teachers of the children. er MILITARY AND NAVAL RECORDS. A plan will probably be laid before the next meeting of the Execu The Committee on Military and Naval Records is aiding the War tive Committee designed to ascertain the causes of the limited result and Navy De~artments in ~erfecting the rolls of soldiers and sailors accomplished thus far, in order that more efficient means may be ern~ of the Revolutwn, as authonzed by Act of March 2, 1913, which appro ployed in the future. priated $25,000 for t~c War J?epartme~1t and $7,000 for the Navy De partment to be used m collectmg, copymg, and classifying, with a view OFFICIAL NOTICES. to publication, the scattered military and naval records of the Revolu TH!> TwENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CoNGRESS will be held at Syracuse tionary War. N. Y., on the third Monday in May, 1914, on the invitation of th~ State Societies, Chapters, and individual members are urged to ad Empire State Society through the Syracuse Chapter. vance this important work as rapidly as practicable by communicating The National Committee on Arrangements for the Congress is as Jnfonnation concerning records in private possession to the chairman follows: William A. Marble, Chairman, 89<> Broadway, New York of the Committee, Brig. Gen. George Andrews, U. S. A., War Depart "'N. Y.; :.Jewell B. \Vooclworth, Vice-Chairman, Syracuse, :.J. Y.; ~lcsr: ment, Washington, D. C., or Mr. Charles W. Stewart, Navy Depart Greeley Parker, M. D., Lowell, Mass.; Frank B. Steele, 887 Niagara ment Library, or to other members of the Committee named in the St., Buffalo, N. Y.; Hon. Harvey F. Remington, Rochester, N. Y. June OFFICIAL BULLETIN. Read the address of President General Thrus ton before the Illinois Society, on pages 12 and 13 of the present THJ> NATIONAL Y!>AR BooK FOR 1913 has been completed and distrib BuLLETIN. uted as authorized by the Executive Committee. About 750 extra There has been published by the Library of Congress a list of about copies were subscribed for by State Societies at 25 cents each in re r,650 entries, representing more than 1 ,..JOO armed vessels, licensed by sponse to circular notice. A few copies remain for sale to members uthority of Congress for privateer service during the Revolution, with at 40 cents each, which includes postage. The volume is of 320 page~. the names of their commanders, owners, and bondsmen, and recording co •taining names of General Officers, Members of National Commit the number of their crews, ranging up to 200 men and averaging about J tees, State and Chapter Officers, Proceedings at Chicago Congress, and :J' men, thus representing more than 40,000 men in sea service. The pedigrees of new members enrolled from May 1, 1912, to April JO, ICJI3. names of these "minute men of the sea," now largely buried in ob THE NATIONAL Ex!>CUTIVE CoMMITTEE will meet in New York on livion, should be recovered as far as practicable, and their memory November 25 for the transaction of general business. State Societies, preserved. The Continental Navay, equipped through provision by the Chapters, and individual members are requested to communicate with Continental Congress, was limited in size through lack of funds, and the President General or Secretary General as to any matters that Letters of Marque were therefore granted to private armed vessels to should receive consideration at that meeting. upplement the regular naval fleet. The prizes captured were th<" re ward of this naval militia, the sale of the prizes and distribution of the PREsmJ>NT GEN!>RAL THRUSTON visited Washington from October money to the seamen being properly supervised by Courts of Admi IIth to 17th, and conferred with Judge Stockbridge, Commander John ralty. H. Moore, Vice-President General Baird, and the Secretary General, The Virginia State Library at Richmond has recently published a on the general activities of the Society; also with Adjutant General Supplemental List" of Revolutionary Soldiers from that State. The George Andrews, Chairman, and Mr. Charles W. Stewart, of the Mili first part, issued in 1912, contained about 35,000 entries, and the Sup tary and Naval Records Committee; Mr. W. V. Cox and Mr. H. W. plement adds about 8,500 new names, besides additional information Samson, of the Flag Committee. and others on Society work under for !0,000 names printed in the first list. The work is a volume of 335 their direction. He also conferred with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, pages, and is sold by the State Librarian at $r.so. Many names of of the Navy Department, and examined Revolutionary records in the militiamen are still missing, it being estimated that Virginia furnished Pension Office and the Library of Con~tress. about 50,000 soldiers in all branches of the Revolutionary service, or 4 OFFICIAL llULLETI NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 5 between one-fourth and one-fifth of the entire estimated number of •'Patriotism in Peace," read at the meeting of the Commandery of individuals serving from all the thirteen Colonies. Vermont, Loyal Legion, by Compatriot J. W. Howard, of New Jersey "Heitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army," "ocicty. ~ ··The Battle of Monmouth," read at the organization of Monmouth published in 1893, is in press in a new edition (to be ready in Decem Chapter, New J ersey Society, J une 27, 1913, by D. L. Pierson. ber), giving the records of about 14,000 officers, or some 6,ooo more "The Battle of Lake Erie," read before Kentucky Society, by Frank than in the original work now out of print and scarce. The price of Graham Maus, April 19, 1913. • the new edition until December I will be $8.oo, after which it will be "The Worth to a Nation of a Sense of its Past," read before the Vermont Society, December u, 1912, by the Rev. Dr. John Martin fixed at $ro.oo, net. Address The Rare Book Shop Publishing Co., Inc Thomas, President of Middlebury College. 813 Seventeenth St., Washington, D. C. ., ''Brandywine, Germantown, and Valley Forge," read before the Ore ~o n Society, October 5, 1910, by James F. Ewing. A list of South Carolina soldiers is being printed in the "Daughters "Scotch-Irish in the American Revolution," read before Oregon Soci of the American Revolution Magazine" (formerly "The American et\·, February 22, 1go8, by \Vallace l\1cC;1mant. Monthly") . ·"The Expedition of George Rogers Clark," read before the Oregon Society, May 6, 1901, by Stephen A. Lowell. In the September issue of "The Ancient," a magazine published "Jews in the American Revolution," read before the Oregon Society, monthly at 105 Barrister's Hall, Boston, there is begun a roster of more February 22, 1900, by Compatriot Benjamin I. Cohen. than a thousand officers of Massachusetts regiments of the Continental line that were organized in January, 1777, for three years or for the ORGA IZATION OF CHAPTERS. war. In the issues from March to August appear the names of the 34I At the Boston Congress in May, 1912, there was a general discussion original members of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. of the advantages of the more general formation of local Chapters, and it was voted "That it is the sense of this Congress that an excellent HISTORICAL PAPERS FOR USE OF SOCIETIES. way to increase our membership is through the organization of Chap At the meeting of the National Executive Committee during the ters." As a result of this discussion some of the State Societies have C ... ngress held at Boston in May, 1912, it was suggested that the His amended their Constitutions or By-Laws to provide therefor, and new toria'll General prepare a list of papers which are sent to him by the Chapters are being formed in several States, the financial or otl-ter regu various State Societies and Chapters, for use by those organizations lations being made to conform to local needs or conditions.