Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-28
PLANS VIRGINIA BRANCH
OF COLONIAL CAVALIERS
Many Richmond People Are Eligible
To Membership In Ma.
tional Society.
Palatine.General Gives Outline Of OBJ
jects Of Organization, Which Was
Projected With the jamestown
Exposition, Held in 1907.


ionial Cavaliers were outlined to a
number of Richmonders who are ell
gible to membership during the past
week by e. w. de Lyon Nichols. pala-
tine-general Of the society.
Mr.. Nichols, whose address is 25
Fifth Avenue, New York. was in Rich
mond TO attend the annual pilgrimage
TO jamestown Island of the Association
for the Preservation Of Virginia
Antiquities, and at the Jefferson Hotel
during his stay here he met a number
Of Richmond people who can trace
their ancestry back to the early days
Of the settlement at Jamestown
Island.
The nationad headquarters OF the
Scions Of Colonial Cavaliers is in New
York, and the national officers are as
follows:
C.. w. de Lyon Nichols, palatine-
general. % Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
w. Lan.er Washington. deputy pala-
tine-general
Rev. Francis LeBau Frost, Phi. D.,
chaplain-general.
Sylveater l.. Fl. Ward. treasurer-gen-
eral. 40 wall Street. New York city.
Clarence Curtis Pinneo. registrar
general. IS Wall Street, New York
City.
j. Cough Jamison. recording score
ta~ry-general.
Or. T. Nichols Glover. h~istorian-gen-
eral.
w. Lanier Washington. chairman Of
House Of BurGesses.
Mortimer pelano Delano. herald!c
artist.
knights OF the Golden Horseshoe
lhomas Campbell Washington. Of
washington; DR.. Walker Washington.
r. w. Lanier Washington. Colonel
asa Bird Gardiner, L. L. p. l.. H. D.:
meredith r. Montague, DIR. Albertus
Aoair Moore. John Ridgley. Jr. of
Hampton" Maryland, and David S,uar.
iNdg!ey, of Hampton"
Ladies of the Golden Horsa
mrs Meredith F. Montague nee Trim
lett Miss Lota Randolph Robinson
Mrs. George Wilson Smith and Me-
!'anie! Smith Gordon, OF Washington
y. g.
The palatinatc OF Maryland. with
Headquarters in Washington. has the
following officers:
Daniel Smith Gordon, nala,i,s -,
Maryland. Colorado Building, wash.
inEton, D. c.
Thomas Campbell Washington. frs.
deputy palatine OF Maryland.
John Wentworth Calvert. second
d-ruty palat!ne of Maryland.
Francis Scott key-Smith, third dem
uty palatine of Maryland.
pr. John CASTOR Bail!ie Rulloch b;s-
torian. H'S-
John Heath, registrar and recorsirr
SECRETARY. the Wyoming Apartme,,e
Washington. D. G. 80
Thomas c. WASHINGTON. treasurer
twentieth Street at Florida Avenue
Washington. D. c.
SOCIETY Projected WITH
JAMESTOWN NPoSITJo
Mr.. Nichols outlined the objects and
requirements OF the association AS
follows:
ms national society with h~cadquar-
'efs IN New York City. was projected
IN connection with the jamestown Elk.
position on the 3ooth anniversary OF
the rounding Of The first British col
ony IN America by the Cavaliers. by
a FORMAL vow recorded on jamestown
Day May 10. 1907. in the famous
treaty Room" OF BENTLEY Manor. Sta
ten Island. city OF New York, one OF
inc oldest manor housees Of Colonial
|aVaier an'ecedents now standing in
america. After several preliminary
conferences at a Livingston homestead
IN East Thirtieth Street. New York
city. the society was formally organi-
:ed on April Z, 1905. the 30lst ami
versary Of she first landing OF British
colonists on American soil i'm Virginia:
At the offices OF DR.. Catesby ap. Catesby
tones. of New York City. the son of the
late Captain Catesby ap. Roger Jones.
IF Virginia, a member OF the eminent
Cavalier family of that name.
While 1t is a mere historic truism
20 descant upon the abstract statement
that the majority Of Colonial Cavalier
families emanated from Virginia. to
designate precisely which they were, is
not so definitely known even by the
reading public at cursory inspection.
Among the Virginia Cavalier pioneers
may be cited Lawrence and John
Washington, Sir Thomas Lunsford.
Major-General Mainwaring Hammond.
Colonel Philip Honeywood. Major Philip
stevens. Major John B%roadnax, Colonel
iuy Molesworth. John Woodward, An
,hony Langston, Henry Bishop. Alex.
pnder Culpeper. Peter Jennings. Sir
dudley Watt, Major Richard Fox. DR..
eremiah Harrison, Sir Guy Skipp-
nth. Sir Henry Chickeley. Josiah
ridges and Governor Yates, jefferson.
he Lees. and John Randolph. Of Roa-
loke, could also be traced back to
'avalier forebears.
But scattered thigh various colo
les of the CommoE ealth. notably in
mode Island, Conna@ticut. New York
nd South Carolina were other Colonial
'avalier families Of premier impor-
lnce. OF the Newport and Narragan-
EFT Cavaliers several OF whom became
Governors of the State of Rhode Island,
may be singled out, Sir Godfrey Mar
'eybone. the Eastons. Dyers, Codihg-
'ons. Gardeners. Coggeshalls. Brentons
and Crantons. In Maryland. Lord Bal
more Its Palatine and the CAROLS, OF
carrollton. were of Colonial Cavalier
prestige.
THE New York City ~headouarters