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Compact Day Luncheon’S Guest Will Speak on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS IN WASHINGTON STATE VOLUME 29 Issue 3 – Fall 2016 www.WashingtonMayflower.org GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Greetings members, Welcome to Fall. Our Compact Day luncheon’s guest will speak on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. This hysteria and tragedy has been the subject the play “The Crucible” and numerous books. Besides our Mayflower lines, we have many other ancestors from Massachusetts who may have been participants. Page 5 has a name list for starters. If you have a Witch Trial kin story to share (I have two ancestors) and will join us at the luncheon, then please affix the witches’ hat (pg. 12) to your jacket as a Inside This Issue conversation starter. Page This is the time to plan travel for next year, 2017. Two 2 Membership changes. -List of Board members. great opportunities. The first is the GSMD Congress in 3 Minutes from Summer Picnic, Kelsey Creek Park, July 17, 2016 Plymouth, Mass. We are allowed to send delegates (about 10) for voting on amendments. As a delegate, travel 4 Luncheon Speaker -In Memoriam -Genealogy Seminars becomes tax deductible. Special exhibits, tours and family 5 Calendar. -National Meeting Report association meetings make this a great time to visit the -Do you Have Witch Trial Ancestors? Pilgrim’s landing site and museums. 8 Visiting Plymouth Mass., What to See The Second is the GSMD Historic Sites 2017 tour of 9 Historic Sites Tour of England and Holland, Sept., Oct, 2017 Pilgrim sites in England and Holland. Possibly the last -UK Website Rich in Pilgrim History 14-day tour offered. Be sure not to miss it. Reserve it soon. 10 Proposed Bylaw Revision -2017 Annual Dues Announced We have some proposed Bylaw changes that affect life 11 Luncheon Reservation Form -Dues Payment Form members and applicants for life members. These were proposed by the Bylaw Committee, approved by the Board and will be voted on at the luncheon. At Board, we have launched a Nominating Committee to find volunteers for the next two-year term on the Board MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! (March 2017– March 2019). It is volunteers that make Sunday, October 30. things happen, get things done, like luncheon programs and this newsletter. We are especially looking for someone who Compact Day enjoys reading about Mayflower history and creating articles for our newsletter. Many hands make light work. If you Our guest is Deborah McNally, who will speak on the would like to join the Board, please email me at my address Salem Witch Crisis of 1692. Social time will include a book sale on page 2. and silent auction, by cash or check. Colonial attire welcome. See you at the luncheon. Reservations are due Saturday, October 24. This meeting commemorates the signing of the Mayflower Best wishes, Compact on 11 November 1620, while the ship Mayflower was Guy Moellendorf, Governor anchored off present day Provincetown, Massachusetts. This was America’s first self-governance document. Come meet with your cousins! Washington Society WELCOME ABOARD! Board Members Governor Guy Moellendorf, [email protected] New Members Deputy Governor, Jocelyn Paulson [email protected] Recording Secretary, Marilynn Sabo Congratulations on tracing your family’s history to a passenger [email protected] of the ship Mayflower, 1620 emigrants from England and Holland, Corresponding Secretary, Genie Parrott, Signers of America’s first self-governance agreement (the [email protected] Mayflower Compact) and present at America’s first Thanksgiving! Treasurer, Tim Rogers, [email protected] Historian, Jerri McCoy, [email protected] City Name Ancestor (generation #) Assistant Historian—Juniors., Ann Shipley Centralia Mary A. White William Brewster (12) 1723 [email protected] Elder, Mavis Ratcliff [email protected] Bellevue Edwin Dierdorff John Alden (11) 1724 Captain, Nick Parrott [email protected] Pasco David C. Payne Stephen Hopkins (14) 1725 Poulsbo Robert Thompson John Howland (10) 1726 Board of Assistants: Alexandria, VA James R. Carlson Resolved White (11) 1727 Sandra Fisher, Lakewood, Luanne Green, Lakewood; Seattle Tim M. Apicella John Howland (12) 1728 Bruce Harrington, Seattle; Sharon Heath, Tacoma; Charlotte Killian, Enumclaw; Lynn Pittier, Burien; David Raese, Mukilteo; Margaret Spangler, Tacoma. General Society Officers Member at Large, and Deputy Governor General (DGG), Steve Arnold Assistant General (AG), Judy Arnold Immediate Former Governor, Catherine Roberti New Juniors The Board member’s email addresses are also listed on our web site. Select the “Officers” tab and then click on their “Office No new Juniors since previous newsletter. Title” to open an email to them. Website: www.WashingtonMayflower.org New Supplementals ADDRESS & LIFE CHANGES Please direct changes to members’ name, addresses (postal and Member Name Ancestor ( ) email), phone numbers and deaths to the Corresponding David C. Payne John Howland (12) Secretary (4002 W. 6th St., Anacortes, WA 98221-1290). Up-to-date information saves our Society time and money! EVERGREEN LOG EDITOR Guy Moellendorf Transfers Out [email protected] No transfers out since the previous newsletter. Published three times a year in February, June and October Meetings — Oregon, Idaho Material received by the Editor less than thirty days prior to issue month can not be guaranteed inclusion in the current EVERGREEN LOG. You are welcome to attend meetings at other state Mayflower Societies, that may be closer. Oregon Websites: © 2016 Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Washington www.mayflower-or.com www.mthoodmayflower.com All Rights reserved - Society members may reprint if credit is given - All others contact editor for permission - Authors retain rights to their work. Email for Idaho: Gov. Ida Hardy, at: [email protected]. 2 | EVERGREEN LOG FALL 2016 SUMMER MEETING July 17, 2016 Kelsey Creek Farm Park Bellevue, WA Governor Guy Moellendorf called the meeting to order at 11:35 am on a warm sunny day under the picnic shelter. After the Pledge of Allegiance, Governor Moellendorf led introductions of officers, former officers, and assistants. A meeting program was distributed showing 38 members, 26 guests, four youth, and two junior members registered to attend. Six new members were welcomed: Patricia Dierdorff, Edwin Dierdorff, Cheryl Eastwood, Kim Lorenz, David Payne, and Diana Prigger. Governor Moellendorf led the Ancestor Roll Call. Treasurer Tim Rogers gave a brief financial report. Lunch was served by Famous Dave’s Catering. Unfortunately, our Guest Speaker, Dr. Polly Good of Bellevue College, was involved in an automobile accident earlier in the day and unable to attend. Fortunately, her injuries were not serious. She was to speak on “The Shakers and the Popular Construction of Early American Citizenship.” Hopefully, she will return to a future function and give her presentation. Announcements: Governor Moellendorf thanked Steve and Judy Arnold for providing games for juniors, and Lynn Pittier for showing her Pilgrim attire for adults and juniors. Governor Moellendorf asked for volunteers: Someone to write a history article on Salem Witch Trials, and someone with knowledge of Excel (mail merge, bulk email and postal labels) to help with our newsletter. Our Compact Day Luncheon will be held early this year; Sunday, October 30th, at the Bellevue Red Lion. Our speaker will present a program on The Salem Witch Trials. In closing, the Governor thanked everyone for attending. Nick Parrot led the Benediction. Governor Moellendorf closed the formal meeting at 1:30 pm. Photos by Judy Arnold and others. [] 3 | EVERGREEN LOG FALL 2016 Fall Genealogy Seminars Family History Expo 2016, Bellevue. Free. Saturday Nov. 12. Info posted at: www.wafamilyhistory.net Fiske Genealogy Soc., Seattle: http://www.fiskelibrary.org/ Others, WA State Genealogical Society’s calendar: http://www.wasgs.org/ eventListings.php?nm=76 Volunteers Tim Rogers, left, and Margaret Spangler were thanked by the Governor for enabling publication of the 2016-17 Membership Year Book. It is volunteers that make things happen, get things done, like luncheon programs and this newsletter. Many hands make light work. Professor to Speak on Salem Witch Trials of 1692 at Compact Luncheon Join us in for our Fall Compact Day Luncheon at 11:45am, Sunday October 30, the day before Halloween. A silent auction of colonial-themed items, social time and coffee begin promptly at 11:45 am. Lunch will be served at 12:30 pm. Location is the Red In Memoriam Lion Inn and Suites, Bellevue, with easy access just off the I-405 freeway and free parking. Traffic is lighter on a Sunday. After lunch, our speaker Deborah McNally will have a Hearts Be Free and Spirits Blessed PowerPoint presentation and speak on "The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692: Why Salem? Why 1692?" Many of us have ancestors Books donated to the genealogy section, Seattle involved in the Salem Witch Trials. Public Library and marked by a bookplate Deborah McNally earned her “In memory of:” Ph.D. from the University of -John T. Graham, WA641 Life, d.11-17-2012, Washington, Seattle, in 2013 and is -Thomas M. Enbody, WA1072 Life, d.2-25-2010, a lecturer at the UW, teaching Early New England Families, 1641-1700, by classes on colonial North America, Williams, A. C., 2015 witchcraft in colonial New England, -Nancy A. Mitchell, WA429 Life, d.5-13-2016, and everyday life in nineteenth- -Winifred L. Huddle,WA529 Life, d.12-15-2012 century America. She is currently Mayflower Families Through Five Genera- at work on a book-length project tions, Elder William Brewster, Vol. 24, Part 1, examining the relationship between Deborah McNally Generations 1-4, Wakefield, R. S., 2014. Puritan New England's religious -Phyllis A. Thonney,WA579 Life, d.6-29-2015, culture and attitudes about gender, Mayflower Families in Progress, George race, identity, and freedom during the seventeenth century. Her Soule, 4 Generations, Vol. 3, 7th ed., revised, most recent work, “To Secure Her Freedom: ‘Dorcas ye Soule, J.
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