The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-22
COMING OF THE 5. A. R.
Further History of a Noble Society
of American Patriots.

objects of the Society to Perpetuate the
Memory of Veterans of the American
Revolution Membership is Limited to
LIneal Descendants of Revolutionary
Loyalists -FormatIon and First Meeting
of the New Jersey society-Local Com
snittees to Arrange for the Convention
Next Week,
The arrangements are about completed
for the annual meeting of the delegates
of the national society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, which will be
held in this city ON Saturday, the Both
instant. Lunch will be served in La
fayette Hall, Washington Headquarters,
where the business meeting will also be
held. A banquet will be given in McAlpin
Hall at o'clock. Several prominent
speakers will respond to toasts appro-
pirate to the occasion. About one hun
bred delegates. in addition to the mem
bership in Morris county, will be present.
The following committees have been
named by President John Whitehead:
Reception Committee Henry G. Pitney,
A. r. u. D.
Raymond. Willard w. Cutler, John B. Byram,
James G. Holden. L. o. Stiles, Aaron P. Con-
dit, George W. Howell.
Invitation CommIttee-John Whitehead
Edward Fl. Lum. Albert w. Baldwin. Stephen
8 Day William T. Plum.
Speakers Committee-John Whitehead.
Edgar f. Randolph Paul Revere, Charles
Lum. Isaac G.. Arnold
Dinner Committee George s. Wylie. Chas
Y. Axtell. Stacy 81. Brisnt, Daniel Craig
Rabbit, Wilbur F. Day.
Printing Committee. Frank Lindsey, L.
O. Stiles. Isaac g. Arnold, Henry B. Hoffman,
Matthias Plum.
Secretary of Committee-Da Craig Bah
bitt; treasurer. Henry B. Hoffman.
The object of the Society of the s. A.
r. are thus expressed by the constitu-
ton of the National Society in its second
article:
"The object of this society shall be to
perpetuate the memory of the men who,
by their services or sacrifices during the
war of the American Revolution,
achieved the independence of the Amer
lean people; to unite and promote fellow
ship among their descendants; to inspire
them and the community at large with
more profound reverence for the princi-
pies of the government founded by our
forefathers; to encourage historical re-
search in relation to the American Revo-
luton; to acquire and preserve the
records of the individual services of the
patriots of the war, as well as documents,
relics and landmarks; to mark the scenes
Of the Revolution by appropriate me-
MORALS; to celebrate the anniversaries of
the prominent events of the war; to foster
true patriotism, to maintain and extend
he NG A
and to carry on the purposes expressed
in the preamble to the Constitution of
our country and the injunction Of Wash
ington in his farewell address to the
American Army"
These declarations are voiced in the
organic laws of every State society and
must commend themselves to the pa
triotie judgment of every American
citizen.
The terms upon which members are
admitted to the State societies are also
found in the constitution OF the National
organization as well as in those Of the
State associations. The third article
provides as the conditions of eligibility:
ssAny man shall be eligible to member
bership in this society who, being of the
age of twenty-one years or over and a
citizen of good repute in the community,
is the lSnedI descendant of an ancestor
who was at all times unfailing in his
loyalty to, and rendered actual service in,
the cause of American Independence,
either as an officer, soldier, seaman, ma
rine, militiaman or minute man in the
armed forces of the Continental Con-
gress or of any of the several Colonies or
States; or as signer of the Declaration
of Independence; or as a member of a
Committee of Safety or Correspondence;
or as member of any Continental, Pro-
vincial or Colonial Congress or Legisla-
ture; or as civil officer, either of one of
the Colonies or States or of the National
government; or as a recognized patriot
who performed actual service by overt
acts of resistance to the authority of
Great Britain"
These are broad-minded, truly demo-
cratic demands upon those who would
be members of this patriotic association,
limited in number-good moral char
acter and a lineaI, not collateral, de-
scent from patriots of the Revolution.
The society is not a mere social club,
made up of those who are seeking
mutual pleasure and selfish enjoyment,
but the descendants of heroes, who APP
preciate their lineage and seek to benefit
the community, to elevate others and
make this republic beacon light to the
other nations of the earth.
The NJ j. Society of the s. A. r. was
formed April 80, 1889. Its first members
were few in number but of ardor and
determined to found an organization
worthy of the time and of their ancestors.
Major General W. S. Stryker, Adjutant-
General of this State, was elected the
first president, but he resigned in May
following and Governor Robert s. Green
was chosen his successor. He served
until the December following, when