OFFICIAL BULLETIN 01" THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

0,.. TH~ SONS OF THE President General Organized April 30, 1889 Hon. James M. Richardson, Clevdand, Ohio Incorporated by Act of Conare,. June9, 1906

Volume VII OCTOBER, 1912 Number 2

Published at the office of the Secretary General (A. Howard Clark, Smithsonian lnsti· tution), Washington, D. C., in June, October, December, and March. Entered as second-class matter, May 7, 1908, at the post-office at Washington, D. c_, under tbe Act of July 16, 189<4-

Tae 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, and to notify him at once of dates of death of members.

OFFICIAL NOTICES. CHICAGO CoNGRESS OF I9I3.-":he Illinois Society has appointed local committees for the Twenty-fot.rth Congress, on the third Monday in May, I9I3. Hotel headquarters have been secured and plans are being thoroughly laid. The chajrman of the National Committee is the President of the Illinois Society, Mr. La Verne W_ Noynes, 1450 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. HISTORICAL PAPERS.-At the National Executive Committee meeting on May 22, I9I2, it W

Among such papers in the possession of the Historian General, David 2g inches. Framed copies of each were exhibited at the L. Pierson; East Orang~, N. J., are: Congress. Address at a dinner given by Orange Chapter, on "\Vashington." The cost of.single copies of the photogravure, unframed, is $5.00, and ~ James Bonner, Patriot," by Norwood Lee Simmons, His­ the facsimile of the Declaration is 35 cents, which includes expressage torian of Society. to any part of the . Single copies of the photogravure, "The Bo:y Scout Organization," by Admiral J. C. Watson, U. S. N., of framed in 3-inch quartered oak and boxed ready for shipment, cost Society. $I0.75, and the facsimile, framed in 23/,-inch quartered oak, packed for "Story of Helen Arnett, the Elizabethtown (N.J.) Heroine in the shipment, is $4.15. War for Independence," taken from history by a historian. It is believed that the display of such historic documents and pictures in schools and colleges is one of the best ways to inspire a patriot spirit THE NATIONAl. YEAR BooK for I9I2 has been printed and the entire in the youth of our land. edition has been distributed as ordered by the Executive Committtee, Orders may be placed direct with the engravers, A. W. Elson & Co., including a number of public and historical libraries designated by the r.¢ Oliver St., Boston, Mass., stating the purpose for which they are State Societies and Chapters. Future Year Books, as also the OFFICAL desired. BuLLETIN as issued, will be sent to the libraries thus designated. EDUCATION OF ALIENS. "DOUBLE THE MEMBERSHIP THIS YEAR."-Upon the recommendation of President General Richardson in his Jetter in the June BULLETIN, many The Committee on Information for Aliens is at present distributing of the State Societies are using the following pledge card: large numbers of leaflets for use in the night. schools throughout the country, which are largely attended by adult aliens. State Societies and The ...... Society of the Sons of the American Revol~ttio11 members of the Sons of the American Revolution are requested to "IJOUBLE THE MEMBERSHIP THIS YEAR." notify the Chairman of the Committee, Commander John H. Moore, It being the purpose of the National Society, S. A. R., to increase our U. S. N., The Wyoming, Washington, D. C., of night schools, large membership one hundred per cent during the current year, and believ­ employers of aliens, or other places where the leaflets for aliens may be ing as I do in the patriotic, historical, and educational purposes for used to advantage. The National Society Leaflets Nos. I. 2 and 3 will which our Society stands, and as evidence of my loyalty to my State be sent in any quantity desired to any address free of charge. No. I Society, I hereby agree to secure the application of at least

COMMITTEE ON PREVENTION OFT E DESECRATION OF r. V ADDITIONS TO MEMBERSHIP. THE FLAG. There was enrolled by the Registrar General from May I to Sep­ To the list of members of the Committee, as published in the June tember 30, I9I2, a total of 195 new members of 30 State Societies, as BULLETIN and the National Year Book, the President General has follows: added Compatriot Henry W. Samson, of Washington, D. C., who has Colorado, 6; , I3; District of Columbia, 3; Hawaii, 2; been actively interested in this work since its inception. Idaho, 2; Illinois, 41; Indiana, 4; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 3; Louisiana, I; On June 6, 1912, Mr. Cox, of Ohio, introduced a bill in the House of Maryland, 6; , 26; Michigan, 2; Minnesota, 4; Missis­ Representatives (H. R. 256I4) to prevent the desecration of the flag sippi, I; Missouri, 10; Nebraska, 2; , 13; New Mexico, 6; of the United States of America. Objections having been made to , 16; North Carolina, 2; North Dakota, I; Ohio, 10; Okla­ certain features of the above bill a new bill (H. R. 26I67) was intro­ homa, I ; , 7; South Dakota, 4; Texas, I ; Utah, 4; Wiscon­ duced by Mr. Cox on August 7, reading as follows: sin, I; Wyoming, r.

62o CoNGREss. 20 S-EsSION. H. R. 26I67. DOINGS OF STATE SOCIETIES. In the House of Representatives, August 7, 19I2. THE CALIFORNIA SociETY, on June 27, held a celebration (slightly Mr. Cox, of Ohio, introduced the following bill, which was referred deferred) of the . About 65 members and guests to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. listened to patriotic addresses. A joint reception of the "Sons" and "Daughters" of the American A B[LL to prevent the desecration of the Flag of the United States of Revolution was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on July 4, in America. honor of the day and of the biennial convention of women's clubs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Board of United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or Managers of the California Society on July I, 19I2: persons, corporation, or company who shall use the flag or the coat of arms of the United States, or any pattern, imitation, or representation Whereas, the Sons of the American Revolution is a society composed thereof either by printing thereon or attaching thereto any advertise­ of descendants of revolutionary patriots who believe this system of ment o~ device for the purpose of gain or profit, or as a trade-mark or government to be the best ever devised for free and intelligent men, label or who shall imitate or represent the flag or coat of arms of the and that the Constitution of the United Staes was framed by rare wis­ Unit~d States for an advertisement, trade-mark, or label shall be guilty dom, foresight, and patriotism, and is the most liberal, humane, and of a misdemeanor. broad-minded political document ever drawn; therefore SEc. 2. That no copyright shall subsist in the flag or coat of arms or Resolved, That we deplore and resent all aspersions and criticisms other insignia of the United States or any simulation thereof. of the Constitution and Government of these United States, especially SEc. 3· That no device nor inscription nor the representation or image when emanating from alien sources. of any person or thing shall be imprinted upon, painted upon, or at­ tached to the flag or upon or to the coat of arms of the Umted States. The One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Anniversary of the Treaty of SEc. 4· That any person or persons who shall tear down, trample Paris, whereby the United Colonies were acknowledged, September 3, upon, or treat with indignity, or wan~only destr?y the flag or coat of I783, to be free, sovereign, and independent States, was commemorated arms of the United States shall be gtnlty of a nusdemeanor. SEc. s. That any person, corporatiol}-, ,or company violatin~ any pro­ visions of this Act shall, upon conv1ctton thereof, be pumshed by a NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 7 6 !he N_n~•bm·gh Chapter. jointly with the "Daughters" and other patri­ by the California Society on Wednesday, September 4, at 6:30 p. m., otic Soc1et1es, celebrated the Fourth of July at the historic "Washington at the Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco. An informal dinner was served Headquarters,'' when Francis X. Carmody, of New York delivered an and Hon. Beverly L. Hodghead, former Mayor of Berkeley, addressed address on "The Declaration of Independence and Wha; it Meant." the Society on "The Present Status of Reform of Criminal Procedure." THE CoLORADO SoclETY.-The Denver Chapters of the "Sons" and The Jo:~ewto~rn-l!attle Chapter had charge of the Fourth of July "Daughters" of the American Revolution held their annual picnic at celebratiOn at Elm1ra. The Chapter took a prominent part in the dedi­ Happy Hollow Ranch, June IS, I9I2, the home of Adjutant-General cation ceremonies of. the Newtown-Battle Monument, on Aug11st 29 Wm. H. Lovell, Pres1dent of the Chapter, was Chairman of the Com­ John Chase, former President of the Colorado Society. missi_on. Add:esses ~vere delivered by Hon; Cornelius A. Pugsley and THE CoNNECTICUT SociETY Board of Managers and members of the Pres1dent Lou1s Anmn Ames, of the State ociety. Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth Branch, about 2SO in all, met at the home of Dr. George C. F. Williams, President of the Society, on June 28, I9I2, The Hu11tington Chapter gave a banf]uet on June 8. The Chapter to dedicate a sun dial presented to him by his compatriots. The prin­ has presented prize medals to scholars of the Huntington High Schools. cipal discussion of the board was on the offering of medals of the Tire Rochester Chapter is planning active patriotic work. On the Society in the towns of the State for essays by pupils of the public evening of July 2 the officers and managers of the Chapter held a and high schools on Revolutionary subjects. It was voted to have a meeting and appointed a committee to consult with the proper author­ committee of five appointed by the President to carry the matter out. ities with a view of obtaining proper markers for the graves of the An invitation was received from the New Haven Branch, asking the soldiers of the Revolution who are buried in the cemeteries in Rochester State Society to hold its next annual meeting in that city. The invita­ and Monroe County. tion was accepted and the annual meeting will be held there Febru- A committee was appointed to prepare a program of what the Chap­ ary 22, I9I3. ter would do during the year, the aim being to promote patriotic feeling An invitation was also accepted to hold the annual field day in Water- among the citizens of Rochester. The neighborhood celebrations of bury in the autumn. the Fourth of July were given approval by vote. THE DISTRICT OF CoLUMBIA SociETY, through the generosity of its It was voted to raise the money necessary to purchase the Eddy R~v­ Past President, Col. Wm. B. Thompson, has issued a pamphlet of 108 olutionary War relics and place them in the D. A. R. Chapter house. The collection includes between ISO and 200 objects, together with a pages, containing presidential addresses of Admiral Baird and ~·vii""'' Thompson, and papers read before the Society at monthly mass of manuscripts of historic interest dating back to I7J6. between February 22, I9II, and February 22, I9I2, including THE HAWAIIAN SociETY held its annual meeting at Honolulu on making through Conservation," by F. H. Newell, Director of the U. June I7, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Reclamation Service; "The Island of Guam," by William C. Safford President, Robert ]. Pratt; Vice-President, Perley L. Horne; Regis­ (late Lieut., U. S. N.) ; "Lafayette and the French Participation in the trar, Howard C. Mohr; Treasurer, Charles H. Dickey; Secretary, Ira War of the American Revolution," by William A. De Caindry; "A D. P. Canfield; Directors, Clarence H. Cooke, John W. Jones, Frank Naval Affair of the Revolutionary War," by Rear-Adm. Colby M. C. Atherton. Chester; "Some Underlying Causes of the American Revolution,'' by Selden M. Ely; "," by Col. Gilbert C. Kniffin. THE ILLINOIS SociETY has shown considerable activity during the summer season. On May 3I, at the quarterly meeting, reports were THE E~iPIRE STATE SociETY held a meeting at the Onondaga Hotel, given of the Boston Congress, and Congressman Martin B. Madden Syracuse, on June I8, about 200 members and guests being present. gave an interesting address on the Panama Canal. The Society par­ At the regular meeting on October IS, in the Myrtle Room, Waldorf­ ticipated in a meeting of different patriotic organizations at the Chicago Astoria Hotel, arrangements have been made to present a series of Historical Society on June IS, when a very valuable historical address moving pictures of Revolutionary events. The annual banquet will be held Monday evening, November 2S, at the Waldorf-Astoria. 8 OFFICIAL BULLETIN X.\TIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 9

upon the work of Geo. Rogers Clark was delivered. Again, on August Erected 1912 by the Kentucky Society, Sons of the _American Revo­ IS, the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Fort Dearborn massacre lution within the limits of the "Fort-on-Shore," built 177&-1779, by in Chicago, the Society participated in a joint celebration of the event. Richa;d Chenoweth, in compliance with instructions. from Gen. 9eorge The Board of Managers spent an entire evening in July in laying the Rogers Clark, and occupied by troops of the Amencan RevolutiOn for preliminary plans for the National Congress in Chicago, May, I9IJ. the next four years. Committees have been appointed, hotel headquarters secured, and all For the dedication the President of the Society, R. C. Ballard Thrus­ plans are being thoroughly laid. At a board meeting in September t n extended an invitation to the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of satisfactory progress was reported by every committee. New members t~e ,American Revolution, and other patriotic organizations. His speech are being received right along. of presentation was followed by an address by Gen. Basil W. Duke, On June 7 a complimentary luncheon was given in honor of Col. A. Historian of the Society, giving an account of the journeys of the first S. Hubbard, Founder of the California Society. white men who visited this part of the country. President Thruston The Society will hold its usual Yorktown Day Banquet on October explained the purpose of the gathering and the general work. of the I9 at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, with the following program: Music Society in marking, wherever it is possible to do so, such spots m Ken­ by the Oak Park Ladies Trio; Invocation by Dr. John Timothy Stone, tucky as are identified with the colonial and pioneer history ef the State, Chaplain of the Society; Address, "Being Up to Date," by Rev. Dr. and more especially such as are associated with memories of the Revo- Wm. T . McElveen, Pastor of First Congregational Church, Evanston, lution. Ill.; Address, "Modern Educational Problems," by President John S. General Duke traced the first exploration of the Ohio country by the Nollen, Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, Ill.; Address, "The United English Colonel Wood, Capt. Thomas Batt, the French La Salle, and States and Foreign Relations," by President Harry Pratt Judson, the down through the recorded exploits of Finley, Moon, Richard Taylor, University of Chicago. It is expected that Baron de Saint Laurent, and Daniel Boone to the surveys of Thomas Bullitt. He told of Clark's Consul in Chicago of the Republic of France, will be a guest on this Kaskaskia expedition and the leaving of a force of men on occasion. to guard supplies, and the settlers who had accompanied the forces ~nd had raised a crop of corn on the island, and then of the orders commg TH£ IowA Socntl'Y has awarded during the past five years (Igo8- from Clark at Vincennes for the removal to the ma~nland, and the I9I2) 128 bronze medals to students in colleges and high schools in building of the stockade afterward known as "Fort-on-Shore." . that State who, by their efforts, have achieved the highest standing in The hardships and privations and perils of the pioneers in extractmg the study of the history of the United States. a living from the wilderness and defending themselves against the wild TH£ !Z£NTUCKY SociETY celebrated Flag Day, June I4, by presenting beasts and more savage Indians, incited by "Hair-buyer Hamilton," as to the city of Louisville a silk flag, which was unfurled at Central Park the British Commandant at Detroit was dubbed by Clark, were detailed at 5 o'clock in the afternoon in the presence of the Park Commission­ by General Duke, who drew from their hardihood and perseverance ers, members of the Society, and the public. Mr. John Hundley, First the lesson of gratitude for the service and sacrifice and of reverence Vice-President of the Kentucky Society, made the presentation address, for their memories. The acceptance of the fountain by the city was describing the history of the flag from the time of the first discontent acknowledged by Judge Clements on behalf of Mayor W. 0. Head, in the colonies until the adoption of the stars and stripes by Congress who was absent from the city. 135 years ago. Dr. W. B. Gossett, of the Park Board, accepted the Judge Clements recalled the debt of the United States to Louis XVI of flag on behalf of the Commissioners. France, and expressed the rejoicing that should be in the hearts of all On June 24 the Society dedicated a drinking fountain located on the Louisville citizens that the naming of their home should have been the south side of Rowan Street, a short distance east of Twelfth Street, fi.rst acknowledgement of the kind in the country. He said that it is intended to show to all who pass where stood the first building in the singularly appropriate that the spot of the first settlement should be city of Louisville. The following inscription appears on a bronze so marked and likened it to the Lupercal of ancient Rome, declaring tablet at the base of the fountain: that the city accepts it as such and will forever revere and guard it. 10 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. II

A letter written by John Todd, Jr., from Harrodstown, to a friend The Treasurer, in his twentieth annual report, shows the receipts in just after Clark's departure for Kaskaskia was read by for the last Society year to have been $3,785.70, and the general ex­ Judge James S. Pirtle, which not only confirms the site, but established penditures, $3,012.9(5. The assets on April IS, I9I2, were $8,428.8o, in­ the fact that Clark left thirty men on Corn Island as a guard instead cluding $6,99I in permanent fund and $I,239.72 in reserve fund. of the ten or twelve which has long been supposed, and tends to the On Saturday afternoon, September I4, the Society dedicated with establishment of the belief that Todd assisted Clark in gathering troops appropriate ceremonies, at Danvers, a tablet commemorating the for his movement against the Northwest, and that it was understood Expedition of I775- After prayer by the Chaplain of the Society, Rev. between them and Gov. , of Virginia, that if the ex­ L. W. Hicks, President Edwin . Crandon spoke of the purposes of pedition was successful, Todd was to become the first of the the Society, and addresses were delivered by Hon. Alden P. White, new territory, which afterward came to pass. Dr. Frank A. Gardner, and Judge George B. Sears. The fountain is a heavy bronze basin three feet in length by two feet The history of 's expedition to Canada was told in in width, standing on a pedestal and base, that brings the surface of detail by Mr. White, and Mr. Gardner gave an account of its personnel. the water about thirty inches above the level of the sidewalk. At each After the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, Congress conceived end are approved sanitary drinking fountains for hum•ns, and the base the idea of seizing the crown possessions in Canada. Benedict Arnold has a channel which permits drinking by dogs and smaller animals. impressed General Washington with the force of this plan, and Sep­ tember I3, I775, the first battalion, under Colonel Arnold, left Cam­ THE MARYLAND SocrETY is greatly interested in the erection of a bridge and camped that night in Lynn. The next day they proceeded monument to Francis Scott Key and to the defenders of Fort McHenry to Danvers, stopping in the general vicinity marked by the boulder at at the- time of the British attack on that fortification. The following Danvers. The battalion then went on to Rowley, Newburyport, and Bill was introduced in the U. S. House of Representatives by Mr. ]. thence up the Kennebec and through the forests to Canada. Chas. Linthicum, of Maryland, on July 23: The inscription on the tablet tells in brief the story as follows: 62o CoNGREss, 20 SESSION. H. R. 25912. "In Commemoration of In the House of Representatives, July 23, 1912. Arnold's Expedition to Quebec, One of the most strategic and daring exploits Mr. Linthicum introduced the following bill; which was referred to Of the patriot cause during the Revolution. the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Part of the troops encamped at the A BILL providing for the erection of a monument to Francis Scott Key TOWN OF DANVERS and to the defenders of Fort McHenry at the time of the British On the night of attack on that fortification. September I4, I775 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeutatives of the On their way to Newburyport United States of America in Cong1·ess assembled, That there shall be Where they embarked for the Kennebec erected at Fort McHenry, under the direction of the Secretary of War, And their famous march a suitable monument in honor of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Through the pathless wilds of Star Spangled Banner," and to those men who repelled the attack of Successfully accomplished in spite of the British fleet on that fort. Formidable obstacles and excessive privations. SEc. 2. That for the purpose of erection of said monument the sum This memorial placed by the Massachusetts Society Sons of the of fifty thousand dollars, or- so much thereof as may be necessary there­ American Revolution." for, is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not other­ About I,IOO men started on the expedition, including 400 from Massa­ wise appropriated, to be expended by direction of the Secretary of War, chusetts, 250 from Rhode Island, IOO from Connecticut, IOO from New or suth officer as he shall designate: Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall be drawn from time to time as may be required in Hampshire, and 300 mountaineers and frontiersmen from Pennsylvania the progress of the work and upon requisition of the Secretary of War. and Virginia. In his address Mr. White said: THE MASSACHUSETTS Soci£TY is arranging to set aside a certain per­ centage of its gross receipts as a fund to be used in the publication of In a little less than two months the expedition, what was left of it, Massachusetts Revolutionary Military data. emerged from the wilderness. Their battle with nature had been back- 12 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 13 breaking and heart-breaking. It had chilled and starved and exhausted. Windsor, Conn.; Maj. Return Jonathan Meigs, of Middletown, Conn.; It had conquered brave men by sickness; it had driven weak men to Maj. Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester. He followed with the list of desertion. Of the nearly 1,100 men who marched so merrily by this spot, only 500 well enough to be considered fit for service, ragged staff and line officers, among them, of local interest, being Capt. Samuel barefooted, haggard, and half-frozen, at last reached Point Levis and McCobb, of Georgetown. Two volunteers who held no commissions, helped beyond the barrier of the river the goal of their hardships. later attained distinction and rank-Lieut.-Col. Aaron Burr and Eleazer I~ is al~o~t impossible to conc~ive of the indomitable courage with Oswald. Of the participan.ts in the expedition three later became whtch thts httle remnant of a httle army crossed the river climbed generals, two brigadier generals, ten commanded regiments, three be­ the heights, and established itself before the city, in vain attempt to accomplish a forlorn . More terrible than the sally of the defend­ came lieutenant-colonels, four became majors, and fourteen captains. ing garrison was the dreadful cold of Canadian winter. More fatal While the expedition failed in the capture of Quebec, it proved to be than bullets were the inroads of dread and loathsome disease. a valuable school, from which there graduated into the patriot army a The gates of Quebec did not open to welcome them. There before bright array of brave, gallant men, who did much to assist in establish­ the walls, their dwindling numbers clung and waited for Montgomery to come from M~ntreal to their aid. Montgomery came, with some ing this great nation. stores, s.ome clothmg, some gun~, some ammunition. Day after day, as the bttter cold became more bttter, Montgomery and Arnold waited THE MissouRI SociETY, at a meeting on June u, appointed a member­ for a stormy night on which to surprise the city by assault. Desperate ship committee of thirteen to carry out plans that have been made for to rashness seems the plan as we look back upon it. No braver men an increase in the membership. Later, on the same evening, a reception than these two ever led brave men in desperate fight against hopeless was held in honor of the President, Amedee Cole. odds. On the last night of the year in a swirling storm, they played their Independence Day was celebrated on Sunday, June 30, when the game and lost. Montgomery, sensitive, refined, and true, type of Wolf Rev. Dr. S. J. Niccolls, former President of the Society, preached a and Montcalm, laid down his life as they had done. Arnold, honoring sermon on the "Higher Conservation" to the Sons and Daughters of to the full all that confidence which Washington had placed in his con­ the American Revolution. In the course of his sermon he said: duct and courage, was brought off from the midst of frightful carnage with a shattered leg. But there is a conservation ?f our national resources, accumulated Then, notwithstanding this crowning disaster of repulse· notwith­ from the past, of vastly greater tmportance than the resources of nature. standing the loss of the dead, prisoners, and wounded the r~mnant of It has reference to our liberties, our institutions, and the convictions these heroic patriots maintained an ineffectual siege' of Quebec for and principles that have made us great and strong as a nation. A four months longer. Finally, about the first of May baffled by the nation's greatness does not consist in its material heritage, but in the arrival of s~ips from England with new forces, they r~treated. Some­ spirit that inspires and controls it. It is to be measured by its sense how, some time, some of the br;tve array which went out so gaily along of justice and right and the regard that men have for each other as this road crept back to their homes. Of the hundred or so of those men. A nation's soul, the vital power that shapes and develops it, is trained back-woodsmen who followed Morgan from the Virginia moun­ nothing more than the sum total of its moral and political convictions tains, it is said that less than a quarter ever returned. and beliefs. As they are, so must it fare for good or ill. To lose them Herois!D is not de~ermined .bY victory. It is measured by endeavor, or exchange them for new ones is to arrest or change the course of its by devotiOn, by sacnfice. Wtth ever so little study of this expedition growth. Here comes in the claims of the higher conservation. We to Canada, one better understands the familiar tr2.dition of a conference have, as a nation, grown from weakness into marvelous power and between its leader and an American patriot in London after the close greatness. We have "eaten and are full." Are we now in danger of of the Revolution: ' forgetting what has made us great? Are there tendencies among us "What would you have done with me if you had captured me?" which indicate that we are forgetting the principles that actuated the "We would have cut off the leg which you shattered at Quebec and men who founded the republic, and thus endangering the heritage which would have buried it with the honors of war. We would have hanged we have received from them? Assuredly, the history of nations that the rest of you." did "forget" and ceased to walk in the ways of their fathers, and so In well-deserved tribute to the men who here passed by this memorial compassed their own overthrow, furnishes us a solemn admonition on is reverently dedicated. ' this point. It was to arrest such tendencies and keep alive the faith of our fath­ Dr. Gardner gave the roster of the provisional regiment, made up of ers that various patriotic societies, notably among them the Sons and two l.Jattalions, with Col. Benedict Arnold in command; Lieut.-Col. Daughters of the American Revolution here represented today, were Christopher Greene, of Warwick, R. I.; Lieut.-Col. Roger Enos, of organized. Some have been disposed to look upon these organizations I4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. IS

as designed to gratify ancestral pride, or establish in a republic where Mr. John B. Wight, President of the Montclair Chapter, spoke con­ all claim equality, a kind of aristocracy based on lineage, or at best to cerning the educational work done by that Chapter among the aliens gratify a pleasing patriotic sentiment by marking the graves of Revo­ in Montclair. lutionary soldiers and placing memorial tablets in historic localities. Perhaps some who belong to them have no higher conception of their The Orange Chapter has been active in observing events of national ?bit;ct. Bu~ thei.r avow~d and un~erlying purpose,, one that abundantly interest. On June 14 the anniversary of Flag Day was remembered JUStifies thetr extstence, IS somethmg deeper and h1gher. It is in brief by a banquet given at the City Club, East Orange, in the evening. thro.ugh awaken~d memories of ~he. past, to set before the pr~sent gen~ Howard Marshall, President, acted as toastmaster, and there were sev­ eratwn the heroic and self-sacnficmg deeds of our ancestors in their de~otion to their. c~untry, and to remit:~d them of the principles upon eral addresses. wh1ch the republic IS founded, and that through adherence to them it On July 4, the anniversary of the adoption of the Declarati0n of has become a blessing to mankind. That there is need of this is ~b­ Independence, the Chapter took part in the safe and sane celebration. vious. Vast multitudes have come to our shores from other countries The members acted as escort to a parade of about 3,500 school children who are not only ignorant of our past, but who, through their previou~ training and lineage, are not in intelligent sympathy with the ideas and in Orange in the morning, after which exercises were held. aims of the fathers of the republic. The Chapter also took part in the exercises incident to the dedication of a liberty pole and flag raising at the Park Avenue M. E. Church, THE NEw JERSEY SociETY, through its committee on monuments and East Orange, on unday, June 30. memorials, is about to place a large block of Barre granite at the On October 7 the Chapter celebrated the anniversary of the battle Stoney Brook Cemetery, Princeton, in memory of Richard Stockton, of Saratoga and the battle of King's Mountain by a meeting and ban­ Signer, who is buried there. quet at the English Banquet Hall, East Orange. Howard Marshall, Dr. George H. Richards was, on September 17, elected Registrar of President of the Chapter, officiated as toastmaster. the Society to fill the unexpired term of John Jackson Hubbell, who The significance of the day, said Mr. Marshall, was not alone in the died August 21. Mr. Hubbell had served as Registrar for a long period. remembrance of Saratoga and King's Mountain, but also in the anni­ He was one of the organizers of the National Society, April 30, r88g. versary of the anti-stamp act convention of 1765, the delegates having Pamphlets for the use of immigrants arriving in this country, giving assembled on that day 147 years ago. It was the first time that the a description of the United States, have been published by the New anniversary had been remembered, and it was well that it was so, be­ Jersey Society in the Italian and Yiddish languages. cause the great principle fought for, that of individual rights, had there The Elizabethtow11 Chapter held its quarterly meeting on Septem­ its beginning for the people of the United States. ber r6 at the home of Judge Edward S. Atwater, President of the New Judge Edward S. Atwater alluded to the strong spirit which per­ Jersey Society. meated the Constitution convention, and of the high-class men that A proposition was discussed for the Chapter to attempt the collection attended it. He quoted liberally from one of Dr. Henry Van Dyke's and compilation of the events · in the history of Elizabeth, with a view latest books, wherein some of the sterling traits that count for good to having them edited and published in reading form for the public citizenship were given a fine setting, a spirit of self-reliance, fair play, schools, so that the school children, and through them, the people in and will power. It was a question today of whether these principles the city would get a more intimate knowledge of the historic deeds, should maintain in the country, or are we to depart from their sound­ famous places, and notable men connected with the city, and in so ness. doing, to stir up a greater local and civic pride. About 250 men, women, and children attended the exercises at the The Chapter voted to continue the prizes as given last year to the Old Burying Ground,, Orange, on October 7, when a handsome new high school students for excellence in essay work on some Revolution­ flag, presented by Thomas W. Williams, of East Orange, was thrown ary topic, and this matter was put in the hands of a special committee. to the breeze. Invitations had been issued to the schools in the vicin­ Two questions for subjects were suggested by the members present. ity, and large numbers of pupils were in attendance. Frederick G. One was " and his relation to Elizabeth"; another, Handel, teacher of music in the Orange Schools, led in singing patri­ "The character of the Hessian, as evidenced by his conduct in New otic numbers. Jersey." 16 OFfiCIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 17

Historian General Pierson has made addresses along patriotic lines, The following editorial appeared in the Cle\·eland Nez •s of August 2: partly in the interests of the ociety, at various schools in the city of Orange, including an address at the Memorial Day exercises of Uzal PROTECT TH£ fLAG.

Dodd Post, No. I2, on May 30; at the Dispatch Rider statute in the Old ~!embers of the Sons of the American Re,·olution are urging upon Burying Ground, Orange, on Flag Day, June 14; at the meeting of Congress the enactment of a bill, recently introduced by Representative Orange Chapter in the evening of that day; at the Hawthorne Avenue Cox, of Ohio, making it a misdemeanor to insu lt the Stars and Stripes Baptist Church, East Orange, on Sunday, June r6; to raise the colors or to put the flag to unworthy uses. In this they should have the support of all patriotic citizens. to the top of the Liberty pole at the Park Avenue !II. E. Church, East The subject has not lacked attention. Some may think it has had Orange, on June 30, when special sen·ices were held. He was the more than its importance warrants. But it cannot be considered as marshal of the Independence Day parade in Orange, and lowered the settled satisfactorily so long as the United State statute books ignore it colors in the evening from the Liberty pole at Watsessing Park, East and the nation must depend, as in Ohio, upon State legislation for the proper protection of the national standard. Orange, in the presence of several thousand per ons, and later read The Cox bill embodies provisions considered necessary and found the Declaration of Independence. He also addressed several hundred practicable in tate practice. It seeks to protect the flag and coat of Italian-Americans on the principles of the Constitution of the nited arms of the United States from indignity by imposing a penalty con­ States at South Beach, Staten Island, . Y., on Thursday, Augu t 8. sisting of a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than one year. This is to be imposed upon those who tear down, The Montclair C/rapter obsen·ed September 17. onstitution Day, by trample upon, treat with indignity. wantonly de troy, utilize for ad,·er­ holding an evening meeting at the residence of Albert French, with an tising purpose , attach unauthorized de,·ices to or use or imitate the flag or coat of arms as an advertisement, trade mark or label. attendance of about ISO repre entative men of Montclair. The exercises Seemingly the only possible objection to the measure could come from were opened with the kindling of a great camp-fire, which burned dur­ manufacturers or others who are not above utilizing the flag in their ing the evening, The grounds were filled with lights and about the efforts to conjure trade and profit. If any such are still found, their house Chinese and Japanese lanterns were hung in groups and ingly, protests mav well be disregarded, except as proof that the law is needed. Pre. umablv the measure's greatest danger lies in the fact that while great ,\merican flags were stretched on the sloping lawn, about the House and enate are busy with important matters and may end their tennis court and the house. sessions without considering one that has already been neglected too J ohn B. Wight, President of the Chapter, officiated as master of long. . . . . ceremonies. Music was furnished by the Lotus Glee Club, of New The bilJ should be promptly reported by the JUdiCiary commr~t~e and enacted without a dissenting vote. Congress should be unwrlhng to York, and several soloists\ leave the nation in the position of relying on the various States to do Starr J. Murphy delivered an address on the Constitution, grvmg a what it can do more appropriately and more effectively itself, wha~ its brief history of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the own self-respect demands. The Federalla\\rs that prot.ect every castrro.n Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. mail box from defacement should afford equal protection to the men­ Judge Edward S. Atwater, of Elizabeth, President of the New Jersey can flag. ociety, brought greetings from the entire State membership, and THE PHII.IPPINE SociETY has elected as Registrar-Treasurer H. David L. Pierson, Historian General, of East Orange, spoke for the Lawrence Noble, P. 0. Box 940, Manila. Eight new members have ational Society. recently been accepted by the Society. THE WESTERN RESERVE SociETY (of the Ohio Society), held a meeting THE RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY has published a neat memorial pamphlet of its Board of Management at Cleveland, on August r, when Pre ident containing biographies and portraits of se,·en members deceased during General James M. Richardson read a copy of the bill before Congress the last society year. providing for the preservation of the American flag from indignities. THE \VASHINGTON SocrETY reports that the \Vashington school of A resolution indorsing the bill was adopted by the Board, and Dr. Tacoma is preparing a more than usually interesting program for the Harris G. Sherman, President of the Society, requested members to celebration of Washington's Birthday on February 22 next. There will exert their influence with members of Congress to obtain its pas age. be appropriate music and addresses intended to revive the principles of (See Bill H. R. 26r67 on previous page of present BuLLETIN.) the Revolutionary period and other features, one of which will be the OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. I9 planting on the school grounds of a tree from Mount Vernon, the home of General Washington. This tree will be presented to the school by the Alexander Hamilton Chapter of the vVashingto!l State Society of v iN MEMORIAM. the Sons of the American Revolution, of Tacoma. Col. SAMUEL E. ADAMS, Minnesota Society, died March 29, I9I2. THe WYOMING Socu:TY has elected officers as follows, all residents of Col. RICHARD F. BARRETT, Massachusetts Society, died July JI, I9I2. William B. Barrows, Massachusetts Society, son of Revolutionary soldier, died Cheyenne: September 6, 1912. President, Leander Corning Hills; Vice-President, Frank Lincoln ALBERT M. B!lLDllN, Massachusetts Society, died August s, 1912. Moore; Secretary, Frederic Burton Sheldon; Treasurer, William GlloRGll A. BouGHTON, Connecticut Society, died June 8, 1912. Edwards Chaplin; Registrar, James Hazard Walton; Historian, William JoHN MASON BROWN, District of Columbia Society, died July I, 1912. Capt. RuFus G. F. CANDAG!l, Massachusetts Society, died June I9, I9I2. Levi Whipple. Hon. CHARLES F. CANTIN£, Empire State Society, died July I4, 1912. DllXTllR B. CHAMBERS, Massachusetts Society, died June, I9I2. Hon. WILLIAM R. CoMPTON, Empire State Society, died April 27, I9I2. PAUL V. DIVV!lR, Empire State Society, died September 14, I9I2. Gen. HENRY MARTIN DuFFIELD, Michigan Society, died July IJ, 1912. GllORGll L. FIELD, Wisconsin Society, died July 20, I9I2. JOHN FoRSYTH, Empire State Society, died June I9, 1912. DouGLAS N. GR!lllN, Empire State Society, died June IS, I9I2. OsCAR H. HALL, Minnesota Society, died April 2, I9I2. JoHN JACKSON HuBBELL, charter member and Registrar of the New Jersey So· ciety, and one of the Founders of the National Society in I889, died August 2I,

1912- Lieut.-Col. HENRY MYRON KENDALL, U. S. A. (ret.), District of Columbia So· ciety, died October 2, I9I2. WJLLIAM H. K!lYES, Empire State Society, died August II, I9I2. LLOYD A. KIMBALL, Empire State Society, died October I, I9I2. JOHN STANLEY Low} Hawaiian Society, died June to, 1912. NEWTON LuLL, Illinois Society, died March 13, I9I2. CHARLES F. MANN, Massachusetts Society, died June 8, I9I2. WILLIAM GREY MILLER, Capt. Ass't Surg. U. S. Army, President of New Castle Chapter of Pennsylvania Society, died August 23, I9I2. MARCUS MITCHELL, New Jersey Society, died September 2, I9I2. GILBERT D. MuNSON, Ohio Society, died May 2I, I9II. GllORG!l CLINTON PAINE, New Jersey Society, died August 26, I9I2. FRANK E . PRICE, Empire State Society, died May 5, I9I2. ST'EPHEN RANSOM, Empire State Society, died June rs, 1912. RoBERT L. READ, Massachusetts Society, died June 9, I9I2. BIRDSEY WoosTER SMITH, Minnesota Society, died May 29, I9I2. EDWARD F. SMITH, Massachusetts Society, died May 30, I912. HENRY L. SMITH, Empire State Society, died June IJ, I9I2. THEODORE HALSTED SMITH, New Jersey Society, died August II , I9I2. ROLLIN A. SPALDING, Massachusetts Society, died July I8, I9I2. G!lORG!l H. STEVENS, Massachusetts Society, died July J, I9I2. CHARLES B. STONE, Massachusetts Society, died September 29, I9I2. HARRY B. WALKER, Massachusetts Society, died September 26, I9I2. Hon. WILLIAM DREW WASHBURN, Minnesota Society, died July 29, I9I.2. ALBERT WooD, M. D., Massachusetts Society, died September 26, I9I2. FRANK V. WRIGHT, Massachusetts Society, died August 3, I9I2. 20 OFFICIAL BULLETIN XATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 21

CHARLES FRANCIS BEESON, RosweJI, N. M. (23904). Great-grandson of RECORDS OF 195 NEW MEMBERS ENROLLED BY THE REGISTRAR Aslzley Jol111soll, private Virginia Troops, armory guard, at Norfolk. GENERAL FROM MAY I TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1912. ROBERT HENRY BEGGS, Denver, Colo. (23138). Great-grandson of Thomas Beggs, Rockingham County Virginia . JOIIN ADAMS BESSELIEVRE, Germantown, Pa. (24109). Great'-grandson of William Applegate, minute man Burlington County New Jersey Militia. FREDERICK ROBERT ALFRED, Aurora, N. C. (22850). Great2-grandson of Joseph Guilford, private North Carolina Troops, prisoner, pensioned. ALFRED BLAISDELL, Minot, N. D. (22759). Great8-grandson of Daniel Stick· ney, minute man and member of Committee of Correspondence at Billerica, FREDERICK POWERS ALLEN, Chugwater, Wyo. (20039). Great2-grandson of Mass. Benjamin Marsh, private Fourth Regt. . CECIL RAY BOMAN, Chicago, Ill. (24141). Great2-grandson of Joseph Bowman HARRY ARTHUR ATWATER, Morgan Park, Ill. (24411) . Great3-grandson of Major of Virginia Regt., 1778 to 1781. ' Samuel Atwater, drummer Conn. State Troop . GEORGE NEWCOMB BOND, Chicago, Ill. (24409). Great2-grandson of Jo/1n RALPH MURRAY AVERY, Delaware, Ohio (23235). Great'·grandson of Jasper Bond, Surgeon's Mate, Col. Jacob Gale's New Hampshire Continental Regt. Avery, Sergeant Conn. Militia, kiJied at Battle of Groton Heights, Sept. 6, (24413). 2 178!. CARL HOWARD BOOTH, Chicago, Ill. Great -grandson of Elam Jewett, Sergeant, Col. John Ashley's "fass. Regt. WILLIAM L. BAKER, Sioux FaJis, S. D. (23431). Great-grandson of Asa Dana private Mass. Troop , pensioned. ' ERVIN DE MARY BOY TON, Pleasant Plains, Ill. (24135). Great•-~randson of John Boynton, Captain Seventh Regt. Mass. Militia, 1776; great•-grandson of SIMEON EBEN BALDWIN, Governor of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn. Jol~>• De Mary, private, Col. Enoch Hale's New Hampshire Regt. (24288). Great-grandson of Roger Sherman, Member of , Signer of Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confedera· HUNT BRECKINRIDGE, Chicago, Ill. (24414). Great-grandson of John Breck­ 2 tion, and Constitution of the United States. i..ridge, Subaltern Virginia Militia; great -grandson of Joseph Cabell Colonel Virginia Militia, Member Virginia Assembly; great•-grandson of Jolu: Wither­ LORENZO DOW BALLIETT, Atlantic City, N. J. (Pa. 24113): Great-grandson spoon, Signer of Declaration of Independence; great•-grandson of George of Jacob Follmer (Fulmore), Second Northumberland County Battalion Moore, Member of Committee of Safety North Carolina and Provincial Con­ Penna. Militia. gress, signer New Hanover Association. IIAL CRUMPTO BANGS, Chicago, Ill. (24412). Great2-grandson of James HERBERT BRIGGS, Terre Haute, Ind. (24055). Great'-grandson of Stephen Bmzgs, Sergeant, Col. John FeJiows's ~la ss . Regt.; great2-grandson of E11och Crane, private Second E sex County Regt. New Jersey Militia. Hallet, Major Fir t Barnstable County Regt. Mass. l\Iilitia. DAVID BROWN, Newburgh, N. Y. (24 r63). Great•-grandson of Abel Belknap, EDWARD HAMILTON BANKER, New Rochelle, N. Y. (24428). Great'·grand­ private Ulster County New York 1\Jilitia. son of William Banker, private, Col. James Holmes's Fourth New York Regt. CHARLES WARREN BUCK, ~Jendon. Mass. (24528). Great-grandson of Jona­ LUCIUS BAR ES BARBOUR, Hartford, Conn. (24295). Great3-grandson of thon Sprague, fifer, Capt. Nathan Sargeant's Company Col. Jacob Gerrish's Amos Morris} volunteer in New IIaven Alarm, prisoner. Mass. Regt. CHARLES ELY BARDWELL, Lincoln, Nebr. (23935). Great-grandson of Noah CHARLES F. BURROUGHS, East Orange, N. J. (n69r). Supplemental. Great'· Bardwell, Lieutenant Second Hampshire Regt. Mass. Militia. grandson of IVilliam Ca1111(i)o11, Sergeant First Ilunterdon County Reg!. New WILLIAM ROBBINS BAR ' ES, Chicago, Ill. (24144). Great-grandson of Daniel Jersey ~Iilitia. Bames, Captain Eighth Conn. Regt.; great2-grandson of Aaron Webster, pri­ JOHN DA \'ENPORT CARLE, Watertown, S. D. (23432). Great-grandson of vate, Capt. Jabez Thompson's Company Conn. Militia; great2-grandson of Solo­ Thomas Dove11port, private, Colonel Lamb's Artillery Regt. (Conn.). mon Goodale, private, Colonel MarshaJI's Mass. Regt. :\'ATTL\N E .\RLY\VINE CARLE, Watertown, S.D. (23433). Great'·grandson of JOHN ROSS BATES, Cranford, N. J . (r1lass. 241 96). Great2-grandson of Zealous Thomas Davenport, private, Colonel Lamb's Artillery Regt. (Conn.). Bates, Sergeant, Col. Solomon Lovell's Mass. Regt.; great3-grandson of Daniel Nichols, private, Col. John Greaton 's i\Iass. Regt. CLARENCE A. CARLTON, Fort Collins, Colo. (23140). Great-grandson of David 3 Car/toll, Ensign, Capt. Ezekiel Gile's Company New Hampshire ~iilitia, widow LINDO WALLACE BATES, JR., New York, . Y. (24169). Great -grandson pensioned. of Sime.on Cole, Captain Seventh Company Colonel Carpenter's First Bristol County Regt. Mass. Militia. IL\ROLD McLEOD COBB, :IJorristown, N. J. (24307). Great-grandson of Thomas Cobb, private Third Gloucester Battalion New Jersey State Troops. WILLIAM COLLINS BEER, Yonkers, N. Y. (24427). Great-grandson of Thomas Beer, private Penna. Militia; great0-grandson of Richard Auten, Second Lieu­ AUGUSTUS C. CORBY, Montclair, N. J. (24308). Great-grandson of Isaac tenant Second Sussex County Regt. ew Jersey Militia; great•·grandson of Condit, private Essex County New Jersey Militia. Thomas Neil, Second Lieutenant Second Lancaster County Battalion Penna. JOliN C. MILTON COWDEN, Dayton, Ohio (23242). Great'·grandson of Robert Militia. Co·wde11. private, Capt. James Dunn's Company Penna. Militia. 22 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIF.TY, S. A. R.

MILTON FLOYD COWDEN, Dayton, Ohio (23241). Great3·grand on of Robert DWIGHT I. DOUGLASS, Colfax, Ill. (24416). Great'·grandson of Jol"' Pierson, Cowde11, private, Capt. James Dunn's Company Penna. Militia. private, Captain Cox's Company Third New Jersey Regt.; great'-grandson of JAMES DONALDSON CRAIG, Detroit, 1\Iich. (23881). Great'·grandson of Stephen Cooke, private w·estmoreland County Penna. Frontier Rangers; great•· Thomas Lyon, Sergeant, Colonel Simond's Mass. Regt. grandson of Daniel McFarlafld, Commander of Company of Rangers of Mo· LEWIS J. CRARY, Chicago, Ill. (21314). Supplementals. Great'·grandson of nongabela and Ohio counties, Penna. Eleazer Smith, private, Capt. James Warringer's (Wilbraham) Company Mass. WILLIAM BRADFORD HOMER DOWSE, West Newton, ~la ss. (24178). Great· Militia; great'·grandson of Moses Cook, Sergeant, Capt. Noadiah Leonard's grandson of Joseph Dowse, private, Col. Nathan Tyler's Mass. Regt., pen· Company, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Twenty-fifth Mass. Reg!. sioned. FRANK CROMAN, Elizabethtown, Pa. (24112). Great-grandson of Michael Cro. DRENNAN, Sl!ringfield, Ill. (24417). Great-grandson man, private Bucks County Penna. Militia. of James Clinton, Lieutenant, Col. Thos. Neal's Regt. . SIMON DENNISON CULVER, Chicago, Ill. (24130). Great2·grandson of Samuel DAVID ALEXANDER DRENNAN, Springfield, Ill. (24418). Great-grandson of Culver, Sergeant, Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regt. Militia. James Clinton, Lieutenant, Col. Thos. Neal's Regt. Virginia Line. WILLIAM B. CURD, Hannibal, Mo. (24087). Great-grandson of John Curd, JA~1ES WEYMOUTH EMERY, Cambridge, Mass. (24189). Great-grandson of Captain Goochland County Virginia Militia; great-grandson of Benjamin · Samuel Emery, private, Col. Joseph Storer's Mass. Regt. Hughes Perki11s, Ensign First Virginia State Regt., pensioned; great2·grandson LEE FAIRFIELD ENGLISH, Wilmette, Ill. (24136). Great-grandson of James of Edmund Curd, Captain Virginia Militia, pensioned; great-grandson of E11glish, Ensign, Col. Jonathan Chase's Regt. ; great•· Daniel Boone Br,•a11, private ; great2·grandson of William grandson of George Jesseman, private, Col. Nathan Tyler's Third Worcester Bryan, volunteer in Kentucky border warfare, killed by Indians, 1780. County Regt. Mass. Militia. BOWEN CURLEY, Idaho Falls, Idaho (21362). Great-grandson of Aaron Bowm, WILLARD LEWIS FALES, Sedalia, Colo. (23139). Great-grandson of Aaron Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel Crary's Rhode I sland Regt. Clark Fales, fifer, Walpole Company, Col. John Smith's Reg!. Mass. Militia, CHARLES GORDON CUTTER, Dorchester, Mass. (24177). Great-grandson of private Craft's Artillery Regt. William Cutter, Sergeant and Lieutenant Mass. Troops; great2-grandson of HOWARD FAY, Philadelphia, Pa. (24115). Great3·grandson of Abel Prescott, Samt

2 JAciiES RAYMOND GOODRICH, Hartford, Conn. (24289). Great-grandson of New Jersey Militia, pensioned; great -grandson of Christopher Doughty, pri­ Simeo" Goodrich, private, Col. S. B. Webb's Conn. Regt. vate Monmouth County New Jersey Militia, prisoner, pensioned. 2 ULYSSES S. GRANT, 30, Captain of Engineers, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. ASA JUSTVS JOHNSON, Swampscott, Mass. (24179). Great -grandson of Henry 0 (N. Y. 24174). Great2-grandson of Noah Graul, private, Colonel Bedel's New Smith, Captain Second Lincoln County Regt. Mass. Militia; great -grandson Hampshire Regt. · of Eliphalet Rollins, private, Col. Isaac Wyman's New Hampshire Regt. (19735). JOHN RUFUS GRAY, Pratt, Kans. (22360). Great-grandson of Frazier Gray, CHARLES HUDSON JOHNSON, Lynn, Mass. Supplemental. Greats­ private, Col. David Hill's Regt. Delaware Militia, pensioned. grandson of Henry Smith, Captain Second Lincoln County Regt. Mass. Militia. MOSES E. JOHNSON, Peabody, Mass. (24190'). Grandson of James Jo/111son, RUFUS CORNELIUS GUILD, Buffalo, N. Y. (24475). Great-grandson of Jesse Guild, private, Col. Benjamin Tupper's Tenth Mass. Regt.; great-grandson of private, Colonel Stickney's New Hampshire Regt.; great-grandson of Daniel Phine11s Kellogg, private Fourth Hampshire County Regt. Mass. Militia. Stevens, private, Col. 's New Hampshire Regt. GEORGE W. JONES, Des Moines, Iowa (24207). Great2-grandson of ADNA HALL, Boise, Idaho (21363). Great-grandson of Parker Hall, private, E::ekiel Polk, Captain of South Carolina Rangers. Colonel Ashley's Mass. Regt. LAWRENCE McCULLY JUDD, Honolulu, Hawaii (20414). Great•-grandson of THEODORE WRIGHT HANNUM, Wethersfield, Conn. (24297). Great2-grandson of Jared Chittendeu, private, Capt. Andrew Ward's Company, General Woos­ Thomas Judd, Captain Conn. Militia, Representative Conn. General Court. ter's Detachment Conn. Troops. LAWRENCE DOUGLAS KINGSLAND, St. Louis, Mo. (24085). Great•-grand• son of Isaac Ki11gsland, private New Jersey Militia and Continental Line. JACOB WILSON HEINEJIIAN, Hollis, N. Y. (24172). Great-grandson of Bm­ jamin Mendez Sei:ras, Lieutenant New York Militia. JOHN M. LEACH, Kokomo, Ind. (24058). Great2-grandson of Perez Tracy, Cor­ poral, Colonel Parsons's Sixth Conn. Regt. JO~ATHAN EDWARDS KIRK HERRICK, Springfield, Ill. (24143). Great­ grandson of Josiah Wheeler, Sergeant, Capt. Ebenezer Parkhurst's Company FRANK HOWARD L>:PARD, Hartford, Conn. (24290). Great-grandson of Isaac Vermont Militia, 1781; great-grandson of L yman Back (Ba.clte), private Conn. Tower, Sergeant, Col. Solomon Lovel's Mass. Regt. )Iilitia, pensioned. FRANK JABEZ LEWIS, Washington, D. C. (17185). Supplemental. Great­ CLIFFORD LOYD HILTON, St. Paul, :\finn. (23213). Great2-grandson of James grandson of Peter Bradford, Sergeant, Col. Theophilus Cotton's Mass. Regt., Hilton, Captain Third Lincoln County Regt. Mass. Militia. pensioned. SAMUEL HINES, Scranton, Pa. (D. C. 24376). Grandson of John Hines (Heint::), JUDD BOND LIGHT, Austin, Ill. (24142). Great-grandson of Abner Bond, pri­ private First Maryland Regt. vate First Essex County Regt. New Jersey Militia. GEORGE HENDRICK HODGE, New Haven, Conn. (24298). Greeat3-grandson ELI WASHINGTON JOHN LINDESMITH, Cleveland, Ohio (23238). Great­ of Abel Sherwood, Jr., prh,ate Conn. Troops. grandson of Joseph Lindesmith, bugler and lifer Penna. Militia. ROLAND MATHER HO::I-IER, St. Louis, Mo. (24091 ) . Great"-grandson of Jo­ JAMES VERNER LONG, Pittsburgh, Pa. (24111). Great-grandson of W1lliam seph Hoar, Jr., Captain Mass. )Jilitia; great3-grandson of Joseph Hoar, 1\Iem­ Long, Captain Fourth Company Eighth Cumberland County Battalion Penna. ber of Committee of Correspondence of Brimfield, )fass. Associators. 3 FRANK RUSSELL HOWE, Lexington, Mo. (24090). Great'-grandson of William HERBERT LUTTERLOH, Fayetteville, N. C. (24501). Great -grandson of James Gleavis, private First \'irginia State Regt. Bo1t11er, Colonel Beaufort County North Carolina Regt., signer of Halifax Resolutions, April 12, 1776. HARRY AUGUSTUS HUBBARD, Chicago, Ill. (24406). Great'-grandson of 2 Peter Hubbard, Jr., Ensign New Hampshire Troops; great2-grandson of Jere­ MOSES LYMAN, JR., Springfield, Mass. (24197). Great -grandson of Moses Ly­ miah Willson, private, Col. John Whitcomb's Regt. i\Iass. Militia; great'­ man, Captain, Colonel Simond's Detachment Mass. Militia. grandson of Elijah Ward, private, Colonel Brewer's Mass. Regt. , pensioned. EDWIN PALMER LYON, New Haven, Conn. (24299). Great2-grandson of Abel ALEXANDER MALIEU HUDNUT, Princeton, N. J. (23374). Supplementals. Lyo,., private Eighth Conn. Regt. Great2-grandson of E::ekiel Anderson, private Second New Jersey Regt.; great'­ DONALD J. McCLANAHAN, Albuquerque, N. M. (23907). Great2-grandson of grandson of John Van Pelt, private Middlesex Militia; great'-grandson of Charles Patterson, private, Colonel Hopkins's Berkshire County Mass. Regt. Stephen Ford, private )1iddlesex County New Jersey )1ilitia. GEORGE RICHARD MAcCLYMENT, Peoria, Ill. (24140). Great2-grandson of JIIARC RAY HUGHES, St. Louis, Mo. (24083). Great-grandson of Richard William MacC/yment (Clement), Captain of Company No. 5, Second Delaware H ·ughes) private Penna. Line. Regt. HAROLD BURTON JA)fiSON, Albuquerque, N. i\I. (23905). Great2-grandson of GEORGE CHALMERS McCORMICK, Fort Collins, Colo. (22569). Supplemental. Samuel Demercst, Sergeant, Col. John Hathorn's Orange County Regt. New Great"-grandson of Jolm McCormick, Captain Third Battalion Cumberland York Militia. County Penna. Militia. LEWIS THOMAS JAQUES, St. Louis, ::\Io. (2-1086). Great-grandson of Samuel IRA DAYTON McCOY, JR., Los Angeles, Cal. (Mass. 24198). Great2-grandson 3 Jaques, private New Jersey ::\IiJitia; great~-grandson of John La11gsta/f, private of Jolm McCoy, private, Col. Heman Swift's Conh. Regt.; great -grandson of z6 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R.

3 Elisha Keeler, private Second Conn. Regt.; great -grandson of George Trench­ CHARLES SUMNER PAINE, Lincoln, Nebr. (23927). Correction of March ard, Captain First Salem Battalion New Jersey Militia. Bulletin and 1912 Year Book. Great-grandson of John Paine (not a Revolu­ CHARLES WILLIS MACDOUGALL, Hancock, Mich. (N. J. 24304) . Great•• tionary soldier); great•-grandson of William Paine, private, Col. Michael Jack­ grandson of Daniel Frederic A ~

JOSEPH ROSS STEVENSON, Baltimore, Md. (24261). Great-grandson of Fran. WILLIAM FEIMSTER TUCKER, Woodville, Miss. (23229). Great2-grandson of cis Harbison, private Fourth Birmingham Company Chester County Penna. William Feimster, private in the . Militia. FRANK ·COSGROVE VAN AUKEN, Montclair, N. J. (24305). Great'·grandson FRANK EDWARD STEWART, Chicago, Ill. (24133). Great0-grandson of Samuel of Thomas Cadmus, Lieutenant-Colonel New Jersey Militia. Stewart, Sergeant, Colonel Leonard's Mass. Regt. HAROLD CORNELIUS VANDERVEER, Saranac Lake, N. Y. (24426). Great"· NEWELL COE STEWART, JR., Buffalo, N. Y. (24168). Great2-grandson of Wil­ grandson of Contelius Vanderveer, Captain New York Militia. liam Cornwell, Ensign Fifth Tryon County Regt. New York Militia. FRANK G. VAN DYKE, Detroit, Mich. (23882). Great3-grandson of John Fowler, GEORGE PICKERILL STITT, Topeka, Kans. (Okla. 23054). Great-grandson of private Mass. Militia. John Cooper, Ensign, Colonel Broadhead's Regt. Penna. Continental Line. JAMES D. VEATCH, West Middleton, Ind. (24056). Grandson of Jeremiah CLARENCE GEORGE STONE, New York, N. Y. (u581). Supplementals. Veatch, private, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland Regt. and Colonel Broadhead's Great0-grandson· of Uriah Goodwin, Sergeant Hampshire County Mass. Militia; Penna. Regt., pensioned. great2-grandson of Asa Cra>tson, private, Colonel Wesson's Regt. Mass. Line. JOSEPH WRIGHT TARBELL, Watertown, S. D. (23430). Great3-grandson of GEORGE FRANCIS VERY, Salem, Mass. (24187). Great-grandson of James Hilkial• Gro~tt, First Major Second (upper) Regt. Cumberland County Ver­ Very, sailor on the brigantine "Dolphin," commanded by Capt. David Ingersoll. mont Militia; great2-grandson of Edmund Tarbell, private New Hampshire NORVAL WILSON WALL, Pueblo, Colo. (23142). Great-grandson of Frederick Militia; great2-grandson of Asa Grout, First Corporal, Captain Little's Com­ Deems, private Third Penna. Regt., Col. Thomas Craig. pany, Col. Joel Marsh's Regt. Vermont Militia; great2-grandson of Isaac Bald­ EDWARD SEYMOUR WALTON, U. S. Army, Chicago, Ill. (23469). Supple· win, Sergeant Second (upper) Regt. Cumberland County Vermont Militia; mentals. Great'-grandson of Jo/11• Clark, Medical Purveyor, Surgeon, Deputy great3-grandson of John Coffeen., Captain Second (upper) Regt. Cumberland Conn. General Assembly; great'· grandson of William Blinn, private, Col. County Vermont Militia. Charles Burrell's Conn. Battalion. ARTHUR MYRON TARR, Glouce ter, Mass. (24185). Greats-grandson of Nehe­ 2 miah Grover, private, Capt. Joseph Whipple's Company, raised for defense of SEYMOUR WALTON, Chicago, Ill. (23467). Supplemental. Great ·grandson of seacoast in Essex County, Mass. John Clark, Medical Purveyor, Surgeon, Deputy Conn. General Assembly. HENRY A. TARR, Gloucester, Mass. (24186). Great2-grandson of Nehemiah CHARLES ASHLEY WARREN, Chicago, Ill. (24131). Great0-grandson of John Grover, private, Capt. Joseph "Whipple's Company, raised for defense of sea­ Pratt, Jr., Lieutenant, Capt. rehemiah Houghton's Camp of Militia, Colonel coast in Essex County, Mass. Nichols's New Hampshire Regt.; great'-grandson of Benjamin Salford, private, HERBERT ELIAS TAYLOR, Kankakee, Ill. (24147). Great2-grandson of John Col. Enoch Hale's New Hampshire Regt. Hosmer, private, Col. Jonathan Reed's Mass. Regt. ; great0-grandson of Ebene­ SO~rERSET RAWLINGS WATERS, Washington, D. C. (24378). Great-grandson ::er Clark, private Thirty-sixth Mass. Regt., Colonel Greaton. of Richard Waters, Assistant Surgeon Second Maryland Militia and Colonel WILLIAM WILDER TAYLOR, ]R., Colorado Springs, Colo. (23143). Great­ Smallwood's Division . grandson of Jonathan Lowder, Captain, Colonel Goldthwait's Mass. Regt., JAMES ALEXANDER WAUGH, Chicago, Ill. (24149). Great-grandson of James prisoner of war for two years. Waugh , Captain Third Penna. Regt. Continental Line. NOAH VALENTINE TIBBETTS, Washington, D. C. (24377). Great-grandson WILLIAM FRANCIS WAUGH, Chicago, Ill. (24150). Great-grandson of lames of Noal• Norton, Corporal, Col. Benjamin Smith's Company Mass. Militia, pen­ Waugh, Captain Third Penna. Regt. Continental Line. sioned. ELISHA EDWARD WELLS, Baltimore, Md. (23967). Great2-grandson of Daniel FRANCIS THEODORE TILTON, Clifton, N. J. (24303). Great•·grandson of White, Adjutant and First Lieutenant, Col. Elisha Porter's Mass. Regt. John Antonides, private Monmouth County New Jersey Militia. JAMES MURRAY WHARTON,,Baltimore, Md. (23968). Great-grandson of Wil­ JAMES EDWARD TODD, New Haven, Conn. (24294). Great-grandson of Yale liam Gray, Lieutenant First Continental Dragoons, 1779. Todd, private, Colonel Elmore's Conn. Reg!. HENRY AXTELL WHEAT, Geneva, N. Y. (24160). Great-grandson of Ebene:ur OSCAR ROY TOMPKINS, Asbury Park, N. J. (24312). Great'-grandson of Jolt~~ Sprague, h., private Twelfth Albany County Regt. New York Militia. Neal, private, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland Regt., pensioned. CHARLES GARDNER WHITCOMB, Oak Park, Ill. (24132). Great-grandson of JOHN BRYANT TORBERT, Washington, D. C. (r89oo). Supplemental. Great'· Abner Whitcomb, private, Colonel Prescott's Mass. Regt. grandson of Tl•omas Bryan(t), private First Penna. Continental Regt. JAMES GUSTAVUS WHITELEY, Baltimore, Md. (23966). Great-grandson of CHARLES WESLEY TREMPER, New Haven, Conn. (24300) . Great0-grandson William Whitele)', Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Maryland Battalion of Flying of Michael Tremper, private Dutchess County New York Militia. Camp. CLARENCE BROWN TUBBS, New York, N. Y. (23707). Supplemental. Great· CLARK McK. WHITTEMORE, Elizabeth, N. J. (24301). Great•-grandson of grandson of Samuel Tubbs, Major and Captain in Bradford's Mass. Conti· Abraham (Abram) Lawrence, private Somerset County New Jersey Militia. nental Regt. 32 OFFICIAL BULLETIN

EARLE SCANLAND WILLARD, Philadelphia, Pa. (24114). Great3-grandson of Alexander Allison, Signer of the '!'est before the Committee of Safety of Rowen County, North Carolina. HARRY BENJAMIN WILLARD, Chicago, Ill. (24410). Great•-grandson of Moses Hall, Lieutenant Conn. Militia. THOMAS WRIGHT WILLIAMS, JR., East Orange, N. J. (23362). Supple. mental. Great2-grandson of Joseph Shipman, private Essex County New Jer­ sey Militia. HOWARD 0. WILSON, Ainsworth, Nebr. (23936). Great-grandson of Ebmezer Wilson, Captain, Col. Ira Allen's Regt. Vermont Militia; great2-grandson of Michael Wilson, Sergeant, CoL Ira Allen's Regt. Vermont Militia. JAMES PASCAL WILSON, Buffalo, N. Y. (24170). Great-grandson of David Wilson, private Fifth Maryland Regt. CHARLES ANDREW WINN, Chicago, Ill. (24139). Great-grandson of John Winn, private Mass. Continental Troops. HENRY DICKERSON WISHARD, Lihue, Hawaii (20415). Great-grandson of William Wishart (or Wishard), Sergeant Westmoreland County Penna. Militia. GUY HENRY WITTHAUS, New York, N. Y. (24165). Great"-grandson of John Gowen, private, Colonel Gerrish's Mass. Regt. of Guards. EUGENE M. WOOD, Minneapolis, Minn. (23212). Great2-grandson of Joel Rob­ erts, private Eighth Conn. Continental Regt. WATSON STILES WOODRUFF, Orange, Conn. (24296). Great2-grandson of Sam,.el Treat, Major Second• Conn. Reg!. GRANVILLE BURRITT WORK, Warren, Ind. (Ill. 24405). Great2-grandson of f.benezer Ferguson, Sergeant, Capt. John Campbell's Company Sixth Battalion Cumberland County Penna. Militia, pensioned. BAYARD WYMAN, Washington, D. C. (23763). Correction of record in 1912 Year Book, p. 295. Son of Mary Elizabeth Tisdel, not Tisdell; great2-grandson (not great-grandson) of Benjamin Ely, Lieutenant-Colonel, etc. YELLOTT, Gittings, Md. (2426o). Great2-grandson of Charles Ridgely, Delegate to the last General Assembly under the Colonial Government, Member of the Association of Freemen of Maryland. WALTER ALLEN YOUNG, Providence, R. I. (Mass. 24527). Great2-grandson of Pa"l Wheelock, Corporal, CoL Samuel Drury's Mass. Regt. WILLARD YOUNG, Salt Lake City, Utah (22550). Grandson of John Yo,.,g, private, Captain Dix's Company Mass. Militia.