OFFICIAL BULLET!:\ CHARLES OSBORNE TILTON, Norfolk, Va. (N. Y. 20230). OFFICIAL BULLETIN Uriah Tilton, Major Mass. Militia. 01'" WILLIAM HENRY TIPPETTS, St. Petersburg, Fla. (uns). Beier Wetmore, private Third Mass. Regt. CLARENCE ELLSWORTH TOWNSEND, Painted Post, N. Y. (20248). Greato THE NATIONAL SOCIETY grandson of Arthur Erwin, Colonel Fourth Bucks County Battalion Pen • 01'" THI! Militia; great2-grandson of Elisha Mulford, Jr., and great8·grandson of Ern:­ Mulford, Sr., signers of "General Association" of East Hampton, N. y .., • 17 great4-grandson of Conrad Kreider, Wagon Master NorthamptOI;l Count·• 1s· ' Penna., Militia. y, SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FREDERICK JEROME TOWNSEND, Painted Post, N. Y. (20247). Great•. President General Oraanized April 30, 1889 grandson of Arthur Erwin, Colonel Fourth Bucks Coounty Battalion Pen H.,,. Stoc~bridae, Baltimore, Md. Incorporated by Act of Conareu June 9, 1906 Militia; great·grandson of Elisha Mulford, Jr., and great2·grandson of Eli~ Mulford, Sr., signers of "General Association" of East Hampton, N. Y., . 1775 Volume III MARCH, 1909 Number 4 great0·gra_n_d~on of Conrad Kreider, Wagon Master Northampton County: Penn., M1ht1a. Published at the office of the Secretary General (A. Howard Clark, Smithaonian WILLIS HENRY UPSON, Kensington, Conn. (20319). Great2·grandson of Sa.,. JDatitution), Washington, D. C., in May, October, December, and March. uel Upson, Captain Fifteenth Regt. Conn. Militia. Entered as second-class matter, May 7, 1908, at the post-office at Washington, R. C. VANDERVEER, Middletown, Ohio (19673). Great2-grandson of Joseph D. C., under the Act of July 16, 1894. Bow~te, Corporal, Captain Waddell's Company Monmouth County New Jersey Militia. THOMAS WALKUP, New York, N. Y. (20237). Great-grandson of Hugh The OFFICIAL BULLETIN records action by the General Officers, the McGuire, private, Col. Albert Pawling's Regt. New York Levies. Board of Trustees, the Executive and other National Committees, lists HARVEY RISLEY WARREN, Los Angeles, Cal. (20159). Great-grandson of members deceased and of new members, and important doings of Ashbel Warren, private, Second Conn. Line. State Societies. By vote of the Buffalo Congress the OFFICIAL BULLETIN EDWARD KNIGHT WEBSTER, Concord, N. H. (19144). Great-grandson of is sent to every member at the expense of the National Society. State Ebenezer ~Vebster, Captain, Col. Moses Nichol~'s Regiment New Hampshire Militia. Secretaries are requested to communicate to the Secretary General ac­ counts of meetings or celebrations by their Societies, and any changes JOHN WEARE, Lyon, France (Ill. 20276). Great'·grandson of Peter Weare, pri­ vate, Capt. John Gray's Company, Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Mass. Regt. in addresses of members. ELLERY HILL WESTERFIELD, Omaha, Neb. (19246). Great2-grandson of Silas Ayers, private, minute man, Morris County New Jersey Militia; great'· grandson of Naphtali Byram, private New Jersey Militia; grcat'·grandson of OFFICIAL NOTICES. Moses Mather, patriot preacher, of Darien, Conn., prisoner of war; greatt.. grandson of John Waterbury, sth, private Stamford Company Conn. Militia; THE TwENT.n;:TH ANNUAL CoNGREss of the Sons of the American great-grandson of Noyes Mather, private, Captain Gregory's Company Conn. ltevolution will be held in. the City of Baltimore, April 30 and May I, Militia. 1909. The headquarters will be the Hotel Belvedere, Charles and Chase GEORGE KEELER WILSON, Stratford, Conn. (19972). Great2·grandson of Streets. The preliminary program is as follows: Thursday, April 29, Philip Burr Bradley, Colonel Conn. troops. at 9 p. m., meeting of the National Executive Committee. A committee WILLIAM HENRY WILSON, Topeka, Kans. (17966). Great-grandson of Wil· liam Park, Quartermaster, Col. Ezra Woods's Mass. Regt. of the Maryland Society will be in attendance from 8 p. m. at the JOSEPH RICE WINCHELL, New Haven, Conn. (20312). Grandson of Elisha Belvedere, where badges and information can be obtained. Friday, Winchell, Jr., private Eighteenth Regt. Conn. Militia. April 30, 9 a. m., meeting of the National Board of Trustees. From DANIEL SLOTE WOOD, Huntington, N. Y. (19923). Great'·grandson of Jert· 9 to IO a. m. informal reception of delegates. At IO a. m. opening of miah Wood, 2d, private First Regt. l:>uffolk County, New York, Militia. the Congress, with welcome by the Mayor of Baltimore. After lunch, WILLIAM WILTON WOOD, Ja., Huntington, N. Y. (20241). Greats-grandson Congress will continue business up to the election of officers. At 9 p. m. of Jeremiah Wood, 2d, private First Regt. Suffolk County, New York, .Militia. reception to delegates and their ladies in the parlors of the Belvedere HERBERT BEVERLY YOUNGLOVE, Elizabeth, N. J. (196oo). Great'·grandsoo of John Youngloz•e, Major, Col. Lewis Van Woert's Regt. New York Militia, pensioned. 2 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 3 by the Maryland Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. \V. A. Marble, who was absent in the South, and Secretary General Saturday, 1Iay I, about 9 a. m., special train for delegates and ladies A. Howard Clark. A letter was received from Mr. Richardson, of Ohio, and members attending the Congress, to Annapolis, where election of wh o was unable to attend. officers and trustees will be held in the old Senate chamber of the State The minutes of the Executive Committee meeting, held September 26, Capitol, followed by a meeting of the newly elected Board of Trustee ~ . r9<JS. were approved as printed in the OFFICIAL BuLLETIN for October, After luncheon at the Executive Mansion, opportunity will be afforded to visit the grounds and buildings of the U. S. Naval Academy and other ~~~ motion by Mr. McClary, duly seconded, it was voted that statistical historic places, returning to Baltimore in time for the banquet, which reports received from State Societies, in response to the circular of will be held at the Hotel Belvedere at 7.30 p. m. October 28, issued by order of the Executive Committee, and calling for The Trunk Line, New England, and Central Passenger Association record of patriotic work accomplished since the organization of each have granted a rate of one fare and three-fifths for the round trip to Society (described on page 7 of the December OFFICIAL BuLLETIN), be Baltimore on the usual certificate plan. The territory included by these referred to the Historian General to be digested and reported to the associations covers all roads east of Chicago, north of the Ohio river, Baltimore Congress, and that the Secretary General request State So­ and north of Charleston, W. Va., Roanoke, Va., and Washington, D. C. cieties that have not sent reports to forward them promptly to the His­ Delegates from the far west and the south will have the advantage oi torian General; the State reports to be returned to the Secretary Gen­ existing low rates to connecting points. eral for future reference. Besides the Hotel Belvedere the local committee refers to the Hotel On motion by Doctor Parker, duly seconded, it was voted that the Stafford, Mount Vernon Place; the Hotel Rennert, Saratoga and Liberty Secretary General be instructed to insert on the second page of applica­ Streets; the New Howard, Howard near Baltimore Street, all on the tion blanks, spaces for dates of birth, marriage, and death of each European plan. The Caswell, Raleigh, and Junker, are stag hotels at ancestor in each generation, and that on the third page be added the one dollar per day, up. Information may be secured by correspondence statement that "membership is based upon one original claim; when the with the hotels, or with Thomas M. Maynadier, Chairman of Hotel applicant derives eligibility by descent from more than one ancestor, and Committee, 2I7 \V. Lafayette Avenue. For circular of general informa­ it is desired to take advantage thereof, separate applications to be tion write to Edward F. Arthurs, Secretary of Maryland Society Com­ marked 'Supplemental application' should be made in each case and mittee, 628 Equitable Building. file d with the original." The President General announced that a charter had been issued to Er.IGIBILITY oF APPLIC.\NTS fOR MEMBERSHIP will hereafter be based the 1 ew Mexico Society, organized at Albuquerque on December 26, on one original claim, and when the applicant presents additional claims, rgoS, and that charters. had been prepared for issuance to new Societies they should in each case be made on separate papers marked "Supple­ in 1Iississippi and Idaho, through the Committee on Organization. T he mental Applications." Condemed supplemental forms are supplied to action of the President General was thereupon approved by the Execu­ State Societies by the Secretary General. tive Committee. Commander Moore reported that bronze copies of the prize essay MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, FEBRUARY roo medal, first issued by the National Society in I8gS, in silver and gold, 25, I909. for award to colleges, had, by authority of the President General, been A meeting of the National Executive Committee, duly called by direc­ struck and are furnished by the Secretary General for general use by tion of the President General, was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. State Societies at a cost of two dollars each, including a seal-skin medal New York City, at 2 o'clock p. m., February 25, I9Q9. Those present case. The Executive Committee approved the above action. were President General Henry Stockbridge, who presided, and ex­ The President General submitted a preliminary program for the President General Nelson A. McClary, Commander John H. Moore, Baltimore Congress, and it was approved. (See previous page of this U. S. Navy, Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, Mr. Morris B. Beardsley, Presi­ BULLJtt!N). dent Cornelius A. Pugsley, of the Empire State Society, representini On motion by Commander Moore, the Secretary General was in- 4 OFFICIAL BULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 5 structed to note, as application papers are received, whether the appli­ The Committee on Information for Aliens, Commander Moore, Col­ cant is a present or past member of another State Society, and if so onel Lyman, and A.