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124TH GENERAL COURT

OF THE

ORDER OF THE FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF AMERICA

400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDING OF THE

PLYMOUTH, 11 – 13 JUNE 2020 CALL TO MEETING - 124TH GENERAL COURT, , MA – Plans for the 124th General Court of the Order are now being finalized. General Court will be held 11-13 June 2020, at Plymouth, MA. This General Court will mark the 400th Anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at aboard the Mayflower. The flagship hotel is the Hotel 1620 at , MA. The negotiated rate for a standard room is $229 per night. If you have not already done so, it is strongly recommended that you make reservations now, as this will be the grand 400th Anniversary celebration of the Mayflower landing, and competition for rooms is intense. The telephone number for hotel reservations is 508-747-4900, and their website is: www.hotel1620.com

Hotel 1620, Plymouth, MA Lobby and Reception

Lounge Area Indoor Pool Area

Banquet Ballroom Guest Room w/ Two Queen Beds

The following schedule of events has been planned and is delineated below.

THURSDAY, 11 JUNE 2020 - There will be an early-bird tour on Thursday, 11 June 2020, for those arriving early. This tour will travel to Newport, RI, and tour two of the beautiful and lavish summer homes for which Newport is famous – and the Marble House. Following these tours, there will be a Welcome Reception at the House in Plymouth. A.M. TOUR - THE BREAKERS (2 Hours) - The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the 's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.

The Breakers, Newport, RI

The Opulence of the Interior – The Breakers

The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became Chairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year. In 1893, he commissioned architect to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house which was destroyed by fire the previous year. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters.

LUNCH – BUSKERS IRISH PUB, NEWPORT, RI

Buskers Irish Pub, Newport, RI P.M. TOUR - THE MARBLE HOUSE (1½ Hours) – Marble House was built between 1888 and 1892 for Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. It was a summer house, or "cottage", as Newporters called them in remembrance of the modest houses of the early 19th century. But Marble House was much more; it was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces. William’s older brother was Cornelius II, who built The Breakers. His wife, Alva Vanderbilt, was a leading hostess in Newport society, and envisioned Marble House as her "temple to the arts" in America.

The Marble House – Newport, RI

Beaux Art Style Interior – The Marble House

The house was designed in the Beaux Art Style by the architect Richard Morris Hunt, inspired by the at Versailles. The cost of the house was reported in contemporary press accounts to be $11 million, of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet of marble. Upon its completion, Mr. Vanderbilt gave the house to his wife as a 39th birthday present.

WELCOME RECEPTION AND TOUR AT THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY HOUSE - 6:00P.M. – 7:00P.M. – The Welcome Reception will be held at the Mayflower House, an 18th-century period historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts operated by The Mayflower Society, also known as the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. The Society purchased the House in 1941. Tours of the house have been arranged, but the tours must be conducted in small groups. Therefore, so that guests do not have to think about dinner following the reception, heavy hor d’oeuvres will be offered, with the intent that guests will linger in the reception area to socialize until docents are available to conduct continuing tours. Shuttle service will be available to transport guests back to the 1620 Hotel between 7:45pm and 8:45pm.

Mayflower Society House The mansion home was originally built in 1754 by Edward Winslow, a loyalist who escaped to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He died shortly after and was buried in the Old Burying Ground at Halifax, Nova Scotia. (His son Edward Winslow made a significant contribution to the establishment of the loyalist colony of New Brunswick.) Winslow was the great-grandson of Edward Winslow, third Governor of . The mansion contains 18th century period decorations and furnishings.

Staircase Mahogany Dining Room

Parlor Parlor Fireplace with Dutch Tiles

Master Bedroom Sitting Room FRIDAY, 12 JUNE 2020 – 124TH GENERAL COURT

FOR THE ASSOCIATES, there will be a meeting first of the John Quincy Adams (JQA) Foundation, followed by a meeting of the Executive Council. These are open meetings and all Associates are welcome to attend. After conclusion of the Executive Council meeting, the 124th General Court will follow, to include a buffet working lunch.

FOR THE LADIES, there will be a tour in the morning of Heritage Museum and Gardens, renowned for its rhododendrons, which will be in magnificent bloom in early to mid-June, and in the afternoon, there will be a tour of the Sandwich Glass Museum.

A.M. LADIES TOUR - HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS (2 Hours) - This 100 acre garden, formerly the Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, is located in Sandwich, MA. The public garden, with its nationally significant collection of rhododendrons hybridized by Charles Dexter, over 1,000 varieties of daylilies and extensive hosta collection, is complemented by three gallery buildings containing a world-class collection of American automobiles, American folk art and a working 1919 carousel and rare carousel figures. The museum's grounds were once the estate of noted rhododendron hybridizer Charles O. Dexter, where, from 1921 to 1943, Dexter developed between 5,000 and 10,000 seedlings annually. He planted many on this site. In 1969, Josiah K. Lilly III (1916–1995) and his wife established Heritage Plantation of Sandwich on the property. It later became the Heritage Museum and Gardens.

Rhododendrons at Heritage Gardens

The garden’s principal interest is its collection of thousands of rhododendrons, which now include 125 of the known 145 Dexter cultivars. Their typical bloom time is from Memorial Day Weekend to mid-June. This collection has been painstakingly recovered since 1972, as Dexter's own named cultivars had been scattered without records. Each cultivar had to be recollected from gardens and nurseries up and down the East Coast. The site was prepared in 1972, and by the summer of 1977 it included over 300 plants representing nearly 100 cultivars, with an additional 25 cultivars as small plants in the nursery. All are now mature plantings.

Rhododendrons At the Flume Fountain “River of Bulbs” – 35,000 grape hyacinths Other items of horticultural interest include: holly, daylily, herb, hosta, and heather gardens, as well as more than a thousand varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers,

LUNCH FOR THE LADIES – DUNBAR HOUSE RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOM, SANDWICH, MA

Dunbar House Restaurant and Tea Room

P.M. LADIES TOUR – SANDWICH GLASS MUSEUM (1 ½ Hours) – The Sandwich Glass Museum is a glass museum in Sandwich, MA, featuring a wide range of rare glass, including glass from the local Boston & Sandwich Glass Factory which was founded in Sandwich by Deming Jarves in 1825.

Sandwich Glass Museum

The Sandwich glass works primarily manufactured pressed lead-based glass and was known for its use of color. The museum also has a live glass blower and exhibits that detail the creation and coloring of various types of rare glass. There are a series of galleries, each of which is focused on a time period or glass creation techniques.

Exhibit Hall at Salem Glass Museum

Glass Exhibits

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER AT – The Friday evening dinner will be held at Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, MA, founded in 1947. It attempts to replicate the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by the English colonists who were known as Pilgrims.

They were among the first people who immigrated to America to seek religious separation from the Church of England. The re-creations are based upon a wide variety of first-hand and second-hand records, accounts, articles, and period paintings and artifacts, and the museum conducts ongoing research and scholarship, including historical archaeological excavation and curation locally and abroad. The 1624 English Village loosely follows a time line, chronologically representing the calendar year 1624 from late March through November depicting day-to-day life and seasonal activities, as well as featuring some key historical events, such as funerals and special celebrations. The Museum has grown to include a Mayflower II replica (1957), the English Village (1959), the Wampanoag Homesite (1973), the Hornblower Visitor Center (1987), the Craft Center (1992), the Maxwell and Nye Barns (1994), and the Plimoth Grist Mill (2013). Alongside the settlement is a re- creation of a Wampanoag home site, where modern American Indians from a variety of tribes explain and demonstrate how the Wampanoag's ancestors lived and interacted with the settlers (not in period character, but in traditional dress). The reception will be held at the fort within the 1624 English Village, where a bar will be set up and cocktails will be served. Appetizers will be located in two of the other buildings within the Village, with period re-enactors present who will provide a narrative to the guests to describe what life was like in the new colony. For this evening, Plimoth Plantation is reserved solely for the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America.

The Fort – Inside the Pilgrim Village

Buildings Within the Pilgrim Village

Following the reception, dinner will be held at Gainsborough Hall, a visitor and reception area nearby the Pilgrim Village. The dinner will be a “Harvest Feast”, which consists of “Cider and water, Watercress Salet with fresh edible flowers, Mussels seeth’d with Parsley and Beer, Plymouth Bread Company breads with butter garnished with sage leaf in pewter, Statler Chicken with Wine, Apples and Dried Fruit, Fricassee of Fish, Rainbow Carrots, Butternut Squash, and 17th Century Pear Tart.”

Ginsborough Hall, Plimoth Plantation

SATURDAY, 13 JUNE 2020

A.M. – WALKING TOUR OF PLYMOUTH (2 hours) – This walking tour, about 1 ½ miles total, conducted by guides in period costume, will pass over the steps of the original Pilgrims. The tour picks up in front of the Hedge House Museum and passes by the Mayflower II, a replica of the original, and Plymouth Rock, the site said to be the precise landing spot of the Pilgrims in 1620. The tour then climbs the stair to the top of Cole’s Hill, the final resting place for those who died that first winter. There also is a statue of Chief , chief of the Wampanoag tribe who befriended the Pilgrims during the first winter of starvation. Mayflower II Plymouth Rock

Chief Massasoit Cole’s Hill - Monument to Those Who Died the First Year

The tour then winds its way up where the original homesites of such people as , and William Bradford were built, before heading back to the waterfront. On the return, the tour will visit some Revolutionary War related sites and skirt the edges of . Not all the Pilgrims were saints, with one being a stone-cold murderer. Our guide will touch on that family's colorful history briefly before visiting Burial Hill.

Marker for the Homesite of William Brewster, Homesite Marker of Dr. , Mayflower Passenger Mayflower Passenger

The tour will then visit Burial Hill, a historic cemetery or burying ground on School Street. Established in the 17th century, it is the burial site of several Pilgrims, the founding settlers of Plymouth Colony. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

William Bradford’s Gravesite Memorial to William Brewster Burial Hill is the second cemetery in Plymouth, preceded by the Coles Hill Burial Ground. The exact date as to when this ground became used as a cemetery is not known. There are no written records of the earliest burials. The earliest grave markers were made of wood, and none exist today. The site was used as a fort from 1621 until 1676. The earliest engraved headstone marks the grave of Edward Gray, who died in 1681. There are only 7 headstones that precede 1700.

Headstone of John Howland Gravesite of General James Warren, Paymaster, Continental Army

Among the notable burials here include William Bradford, William Brewster, , , John Howland, and , all passengers on the Mayflower, as well as Revolutionary War figures, such as General James Warren, the Paymaster for the Continental Army. The tour will then jump through time a bit to the Revolution, stopping at the courthouse where John Adams tried cases. Colonel Alexander Skammel has a marker by the foot of the main staircase to Burial Hill and General James Warren and his wife, Mercy Otis, are buried on top of the hill. We will stop at the town home of the Warrens and the home of a surgeon in the Continental Army. Further down the street from the surgeon's house are the homes of two best friends who found themselves on opposite sides of the Revolution - Lt. Ephraim Spooner and Governor Edward Winslow, who lived across the street from one another. Mr. Spooner was a Patriot and the Quartermaster of the local militia. Edward Winslow was the Customs Collector and a Tory. He later relocated to Nova Scotia. The tour will conclude where it started, at the Hedge House Museum.

LUNCH – ISAACS ON THE WATERFRONT

Isaac’s On the Waterfront Restaurant

P.M. – PLYMOUTH HALL MUSEUM (2 Hours) – Plymouth Hall Museum is the nation’s oldest continuously operating public museum, houses an unmatched collection of Pilgrim possessions telling the story of ordinary yet determined men and women building lives and homes for themselves and their children in a new world.

Pilgrim Hall Museum Pilgrim Hall Museum maintains and exhibits the Nation’s preeminent collection of Pilgrim possessions. The Museum has been open and collecting objects, books, and documents since 1824. It was founded by the Pilgrim Society, which was chartered in 1820, two hundred years after the Pilgrims’ arrival in Plymouth. The museum’s founders were only a couple of generations away from the residents of the first permanent English settlement in . Pride in the new and its history, combined with honor for the Pilgrims motivated the museum’s founders and donors to begin the Museum’s collection. On exhibit are William Bradford’s Bible, ’s sword, the only portrait of a Pilgrim (Edward Winslow) painted from life, the cradle of New England’s first–born, , the great chair of William Brewster, and the earliest sampler made in America, embroidered by Myles Standish’s daughter.

The Pilgrim Story Artifacts Brought Over On the Mayflower

Model of the Mayflower William Bradford’s Bible

At Pilgrim Hall Museum, the story is also told of the Wampanoag, "People of the Dawn," the Native People who inhabited this area for 10,000 years before the arrival of the new settlers and who are still here today. The story of the interrelationship between the Wampanoag and Colonial settlers continues through the disastrous conflict of the 1670s, known as King Philip's War.

The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor The First

GOVERNOR GENERAL’S RECEPTION (HOTEL 1620) – 6:00p.m. – 7:15p,m.

PARADE OF FLAGS (HOTEL 1620) – 7:15p.m.

BANQUET (HOTEL 1620) – 7:30p.m.

The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America 124th GENERAL COURT REGISTRATION PLYMOUTH, MA 11 – 13 JUNE 2020

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EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT - $450 PER PERSON IF RECEIVED BY 31 JANUARY 2020 X $450

REGULAR REGISTRATION - $475 PER PERSON IF RECEIVED BY 31 MARCH 2020 X $475

LATE REGISTRATION - $499 PER PERSON IF RECEIVED AFTER 31 MARCH 2019 X $499

THURSDAY “EARLY BIRD” TOURS - $100 PER PERSON X $100 .M. A – THE BREAKERS MANSION, NEWPORT, RI LUNCH AT BRUSKERS IRISH PUB, NEWPORT, RI P.M. – THE MARBLE HOUSE MANSION, NEWPORT, RI

FRIDAY LADIES TOUR ; (INCLUDED IN GENERAL REGISTRATION) .M. A – HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS, SANDWICH, MA LUNCH – DUNBAR HOUSE RESTAURANT, SANDWICH, MA P.M. – SANDWICH GLASS MUSEUM, SANDWICH, MA

FRIDAY DINNER – PLIMOTH PLANTATION PLEASE INDICATE NUMBER HARVEST FEAST OF “17TH CENTURY FARE”

SATURDAY – LUNCH, ISAACS ON THE WATERFRONT, PLYMOUTH, MA PLEASE INDICATE MEAL SELECTION AND NUMBER SELECTION #1 CHICKEN CORDON BLEU, BONELESS CHICKEN WITH BAKED HAM, SWISS CHEESE AND SEASONINGS

SELECTION #2 BROILED SCHROD, LIGHTLY COVERED WITH CRUMBS AND LEMON BUTTER

SATURDAY – ANNUAL BANQUET, HOTEL 1620, PLYMOUTH, MA PLEASE INDICATE MEAL SELECTION AND NUMBER SELECTION #1 PRIME RIB OF BEEF AU JUS, served with a Garden Salad, Medley of Garden Vegetables, Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes and Chocolate Cake

SELECTION #2 CEDAR GRILLED SALMON WITH SAFFRON CREAM, served with a Garden Salad, Medley of Garden Vegetables, Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes and Chocolate Cake

PLEASE INDICATE ANY DIETARY RESTRICTIONS OR ALLERGIES:

PLEASE NOTE: NO REFUNDS AFTER 1 MAY 2020 NO REGISTRATIONS ACCEPTED AFTER 25 MAY 2020

Make check payable to “OFPA” and enclose registration form. Mail to: Shane Newcombe, P.O. Box 59, Randolph, VA 23962