SPRING 2019 Vol. 113, No. 4 129th Annual Congress California, Here We Come! SAR Visits Orange County SPRING 2019 Vol. 113, No. 4 ON THE COVER Clockwise from top left, the mission at 7 San Juan Capistrano, Bowers Museum, Huntington Library and Gardens, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; below, Congresss attendees also can tour the Lyon Air Museum 10 6 Letters to the Editor 14 The Upcoming Conference on 20 The Hornet’s Nest and the American Revolution Eleanor Wilson 7 2019 Congress to Convene in Orange County, Calif. 14 Update of the Patriot 22 State Society & Research System Chapter News 9 The SAR Education Center and Museum Brick and 15 Jamestown Settlement’s Stoneware Tile Campaign Tenacious Women Lecture 37 In Our Memory Series 10 The Clements Library and Its 37 New SAR Members Artifacts from Early America 16 Federal Census Records: and the Revolutionary War An Untold Story 46 When You Are Traveling THE SAR MAGAZINE (ISSN 0161-0511) is published quarterly (February, May, August, November) and copyrighted by the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 809 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202. Periodicals postage paid at Louisville, KY and additional mailing offices. Membership dues include The SAR Magazine. Subscription rate $10 for four consecutive issues. Single copies $3 with checks payable to “Treasurer General, NSSAR” mailed to the HQ in Louisville. Products and services advertised do not carry NSSAR endorsement. The National Society reserves the right to reject content of any copy. Send all news matter to Editor; send the following to NSSAR Headquarters: address changes, election of officers, new members, member deaths. Postmaster: Send address changes to The SAR Magazine, 809 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202. UBLISHER P : STAFF DIRECTORY President General Warren M. Alter As indicated below, staff members have an email address and an extension number of the automated 7739 E. Broadway Blvd., #73 telephone system to simplify reaching them. Tucson, AZ 85710-3941 Ph: (520) 886-1980 Executive Director: Acting Director of The Center/ Email: [email protected] Don Shaw, ext. 6128, Director of Education: [email protected] Colleen Wilson, ext. 6129, EDITOR: Stephen M. Vest [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Patricia Ranft Development Director, SAR Foundation: P.O. Box 559 Sarah Strapp Dennison, (502) 315-1777, Librarian: Joe Hardesty, Frankfort, KY 40602 [email protected] ext. 6131, [email protected] Ph: (502) 227-0053 Fax: (502) 227-5009 Director of Finance: Assistant Librarian/Archivist: Email: [email protected] Mary Butts, ext. 6120, Rae Ann Sauer, ext. 6132, [email protected] HEADQUARTERS STAFF ADDRESS: [email protected] National Society Sons Librarian Assistant/Receptionist: of the American Revolution Director of Operations: Robin Christian, ext. 6138, [email protected] 809 West Main Street Michael Scroggins, ext. 6125, Louisville, KY 40202 [email protected] Registrar: Jon Toon, Ph: (502) 589-1776 ext. 6142, [email protected] Fax: (502) 589-1671 Special Events Coordinator: Email: [email protected] Debbie Smalley, ext. 6123, Merchandise Director: Susan Griffin, Website: www.sar.org [email protected] ext. 6141, [email protected] 2 SAR MAGAZINE Continuing the Focus on Communication ere it is May already, spring has arrived, and coordinating this project to make sure the two Spring Leadership meetings ended more than projects proceed without delays. Mission Data is Ha month ago. For those who attended the allocating a general manager but separate teams meetings in Louisville, thank you. I think you will agree to develop the two projects. we accomplished a great deal and that the committee l PCI Membership Directory and updated member meetings were productive. If you didn’t attend, hopefully database info project: The cards and emails your trustee or state president has taken the time to sent to members are resulting in many members share with your chapter and state what we did at the calling and confirming/updating their information meeting. In continuation of my focus on communication, for our database and the Member Directory. The I shared a document that included summaries of Member Directory, being sold by PCI, is optional, significant issues discussed or acted upon at Leadership. and members who don’t want one may say no to They included: the offers. Additionally, although the directories are only for sale to members or their families, if l SAR Education Center and Museum Project: a member does not wish his information to be Summary of the status by Solid Light, given by published, he may notify the company. Ad Hoc Committee Chairman William Stone and l Change in Quorum Requirements: Based on issues a discussion of the progress Solid Light is making of committees at Leadership and Congress not on Phase II, Step 2 Design Development. The having enough committee members present to committee is working closely with Solid Light necessarily represent a quorum, the motion was and monitoring the project carefully. approved by the trustees. m Fundraising for Phase II, Step 3 continues: m Insert into Handbook, Volume II, p. 7: As you know, Phase II, Step 2 was Except for the Executive Committee, approved at the Fall Trustees meeting standing committees and special when we announced we had raised committees established by the bylaws, a more than the $550,000 required for that quorum for meetings during Congress or portion. We are now on our way to raising Leadership Meetings shall be a majority of funds for Phase II, Step 3, which will need the committee members registered for the $780,000. The SAR Foundation is working Congress or Leadership Meeting; a quorum to raise these funds. All members are for these committees meeting between encouraged to consider a donation to the Congress and Leadership Meetings shall be SAR Education Center and Museum (easy 1/3 (one-third) of the appointed committee to do through the SAR Foundation’s new members. monthly donation program). l New Member Database program progress through These summaries seemed well received, and I hope Mission Data (project approved at Fall Leadership future Presidents General or Secretaries General do Meeting 2018): The IT Subcommittee, chaired something similar after all Leadership meetings and by PG J. Michael Tomme (2016-17), reports the Congress. company is making tremendous progress. They First Lady Nancy and I continue to be busy traveling are transforming our current member databases to many state and district events. We enjoy meeting and (three separate systems) into one unified system. getting to know so many compatriots and their spouses. Once converted, it will be tested thoroughly Each district or state does things a little differently, and with variously sized chapters and states before it makes each travel a learning experience. So far, we being brought out for general use. It is still in the have attended 33 events since beginning our term and development stage. are scheduled for 17 more, including Congress. I will be l New Website RFP awarded to Mission Data. A reporting on my year at Congress. second IT project, with a recommended budget Every article I write has a focus and a message that between $78,500-$83,500, was presented for I think is important to get to all members. Although the development of a responsive WordPress mentioned previously, I want to focus all our members on website for SAR. Budget information was the fast-approaching 250th anniversary. If you attended provided on where the funding would come Leadership, you heard a meaningful and inspiring message from and confirmed that funds were available. from Tom Walker, founder of the American Village in Trustees approved the project. PG Tomme is also Continued on page 5 SPRING 2019 3 General Officers, National Society Sons of the American Revolution President General Warren M. Alter, 7739 E. Broadway Blvd., Rocky Mountain District, Andrew S. Lyngar Jr., 300-2 #73, Tucson, AZ 85710-3941, (520) 886-1980, McCombs Road, P.O. Box 86, Chaparral, NM 88081-7937, [email protected] (636) 295-2154, [email protected] Secretary General John T. “Jack” Manning, M.Ed., 10 Old Intermountain District, Philip Gary Pettett, 8540 N. Arnold Colony Way, Scituate, MA 02066-4711, (781) 264-2584, Palmer Drive, Tucson, AZ 85742-9595, (208) 295-5274, [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer General Davis Lee Wright, Esq., P.O. Box 8096, Western District, Ronald J. Barker, 19070 Hummingbird Wilmington, DE 19803, (302) 584-1686, [email protected] Drive, Penn Valley, CA 95946-9693, (530) 205-9531, Chancellor General Richard T. Bryant, Esq., 7904 Campbell, ron0729con.comcast.net Kansas City, MO 64131-2155, (816) 523-8153, [email protected] Pacific District, Gregory Dean Lucas, 919 124th Street, Genealogist General Jim L. W. Faulkinbury, 4305 Elizabeth Suite 101, Bellevue, WA 98005, (425) 454-3302, Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95821-4140, (916) 359-1752, [email protected] [email protected] European District, Patrick Marie Mesnard, 69 Boulevard Registrar General C. Bruce Pickette, 7801 Wynlakes Blvd., de la Republique, Versailles, 78000 France, Montgomery, AL 36117, (334) 273-4680, [email protected] [email protected] Historian General John O. Thornhill, 1314 West Charity International District, Paul R. Callanan, (see Executive Road, Rose Hill, NC 28458-8512, (910) 289-4615, Committee) [email protected] Librarian General Douglas T. 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