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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS of
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State of New Hampshire.
Incorporated September 28, 1894. Chartered November 12, 1894.
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS, ADDRESS, OFFICERS, LIST OF MEMBERS, ETC.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1897-98.
JOSEPH FOSTER, WILLIAM DAVIS SAWYER, JOHN SHELDON TREAT, Publication Fund Committee.
Edited by CHARLES LATHROP PARSONS, Secretary.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
The undersigned, being persons of lawful age, associate under the provi- sions of chapter 147 of the Public Statutes of New Hampshire by the following
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
ARTICLE I. The name of this corporation shall be the Society of Colo- nial Wars in the State of New Hampshire.
ARTICLE II. The objects for which this corporation is established are to perpetuate the names, memory, or deeds of those brave and courageous men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel assisted in the establishment and continuance of the American Colonies from the settle- ment of Jamestown, Virginia, May 13th, 1607, to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19th, 1775; to collect and secure for preservation the manuscripts, rolls, records, and other documents relating to that period of colonial history; to inspire among the members and their descendants the fraternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and to inculcate in the com- munity respect and reverence for the acts and principles of those indomitable men which made the freedom and unity of our country a possibility.
ARTICLE III. The place in which the business of this corporation is to be carried on is the City of Concord in the State of New Hampshire.
ARTICLE IV. No capital stock.
ARTICLE V. The first meeting of the corporation was held in the City of Concord, State of New Hampshire, on Thursday, September 27th A. D. 1894.
HENRY OAKES KENT, GEORGE HERBERT GROSS,
CHARLES LANGDON TAPPAN,
HOSEA EMERY BOWEN,
FREDERICK BACON PHILBROOK, FREDERICK WALTER CLAPP,
FRANKLIN SENTER FRISBEE, WILLIAM LITHGOW WILLEY,
GEORGE HENRY BOWEN,
FREDERICK LINCOLN BANGS,
GEORGE ALBERT SENTER,
CHARLES MCCLARY BANGS,
HENRY STEADMAN JACKSON,
CHARLES CALHOUN PHILBROOK.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, CONCORD, September 28, 1894.
Received and recorded in records of Voluntary Corporations, vol. 8, pages III-12-13.
EZRA S. STEARNS,
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Secretary of State.
Officers and Committees, 1897-1898.
Elected at the Fourth General Court, held June 15, 1897, at the Rockingham Colonial Hall, Portsmouth, N. H.
Governor, HENRY OAKES KENT, Lancaster.
Deputy-Governor, JOHN CALVIN THORNE.
Lieutenant-Governor, JAMES FORNEY.
Secretary, CHARLES LATHROP PARSONS, Durham.
Treasurer, GRANVILLE PRIEST CONN, Concord.
Registrar,
EZRA SCOLLAY STEARNS, Rindge.
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Chaplain, CHARLES LANGDON TAPPAN.
Chancellor, JARED IRVING WILLIAMS.
Gentlemen of the Council,
EZRA SCOLLAY STEARNS, EDSON COFFIN EASTMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS SAWYER, JOHN SHELDON TREAT, HENRY ARTHUR CUTTER.
Committee on Membership, CHARLES LANGDON TAPPAN, JAMES MILNOR COIT, GEORGE FREDERIC EVANS, GEORGE OSCAR BALL, MORTON FREEMAN PLANT.
Delegates to General Assembly,
WILLIAM DAVIS SAWYER, CHARLES EASTMAN STANIELS, JAMES FORNEY, WILLIAM LITHGOW WILLEY, FREDERIC BACON PHILBROOK.
Deputy-Governor-General,
HENRY OAKES KENT.
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Preamble to the Constitution.
WHEREAS, It is desirable that there should be ade- quate celebrations commemorative of the events of Colo- nial history happening from the settlement of Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 :
THEREFORE, The Society of Colonial Wars has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of those events, and of the men who, in military, naval, and civil positions of high trust and responsibility, by their acts or counsel, assisted in the establishment, defense, and preservation of the American Colonies, and were in truth the found- ers of this nation. With this end in view, it seeks to collect and preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics, and records ; to provide suitable commemorations or memo- rials relating to the American colonial period, and to inspire in its members the fraternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and in the community, respect and reverence for those whose public services made our freedom and unity possible.
The Constitution of the General Society of Colonial Wars has been adopted by the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of New Hampshire except where modified by the By-Laws of the State Society.
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By-Laws.
SECTION I.
Name.
The Society shall be known by the name, style, and title of "SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE."
SECTION II.
Officers.
The officers of the Society shall be a Governor, a Deputy-Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, an Historian, a Genealogist, a Chaplain, and a Chancellor ; these shall be ex-officio members and constitute the Council, with five other members elected for that purpose and chosen annually.
The Deputy-Governor-General, the Society's repre- sentative in the General Society, shall also be ex-officio a member of the Council.
SECTION III.
Fees and Dues.
The initiation fee shall be five (5) dollars ; the annual dues shall be two (2) dollars, payable the first day of January of each year. The payment at one time of fifty (50) dollars shall constitute a life membership, and
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exempt the member so paying from initiation fee and annual dues.
Any member, at his election to membership or subse- quently, who may contribute one hundred (100) dollars to the " permanent fund " of the Society shall be exempt from payment of annual dues, and this exemption shall extend in perpetuity to his lineal successors in member- ship from the same propositus, one at a time, who may be selected for such exemption by the Society, said per- petual membership to be transmitted by the holder, sub- ject to the approval of the Society.
The non-payment of an initiation fee within six months of the election of a candidate shall make such election null and void.
Any fees of the General Society of a special nature, such as fees for filing applications, shall be borne by the individual members to whom they may apply, and not by the Society.
Any member who shall be in arrears one year in pay- ment of annual dues shall be liable to suspension or expulsion, and his name and ancestry shall be omitted by the Secretary from the Year Book of the Society.
SECTION IV.
Governor.
The Governor, or in his absence the Deputy-Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor, or Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all Courts of the Society, and shall exercise the duties of a presiding officer under parliamentary rules, subject to an appeal to the Society. The Gover- nor shall be a member ex-officio of all standing com- mittees. He shall have power to convene the Council
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at his discretion, or upon the written request of two members of the Council, or upon the like request of five members of the Society.
SECTION V. Secretary.
The Secretary shall conduct the general correspond- ence of the Society, and keep a record thereof. He shall notify all elected candidates of their admission, and perform such other duties as the Society or his office may require. He shall have charge of the seal, certifi- cates of incorporation, by-laws, historical, and other documents and records of the Society other than those required to be deposited with the Registrar, and shall affix the seal to all properly authenticated certificates of membership, and transmit the same to the members to whom they may be issued. He shall notify the Regis- trar of all admissions to membership. He shall certify all acts of the Society, and when required authenticate them under seal. He shall have charge of printing and publications issued by the Society. He shall give due notice of the time and place of the holding of all Courts of the Society and of the Council. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society and of the Council, and shall give notice to each officer who may be affected by them of all votes, resolutions, and proceedings of the Society, or of the Council, and at the General Court, or oftener, shall report the names of those candidates who have been admitted to membership, and those whose resignations have been accepted, and of those members whose mem- bership has ceased for other causes. In his absence
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from any meeting a Secretary pro tempore may be des- ignated therefor.
SECTION VI.
Treasurer.
The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of the Society. Out of these funds he shall pay only such sums as may be ordered by the Society or Council, or his office or that of the Secretary may require. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and at each annual meeting render the same to the Society. For the faithful performance of his duty he may be required to give such security as the Society may deem proper.
SECTION VII.
Registrar.
The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary and file all the proofs upon which membership has been granted, with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, and all documents which the Society may obtain ; and he, under the direction of the Council, shall make copies of such papers as the owners may not be willing to leave in the keeping of the Society.
SECTION VIII.
Historian.
The Historian shall keep a detailed record of all his- torical and commemorative celebrations of the Society, and shall edit and prepare for publication such historical addresses, papers, and other documents as the Society
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may see fit to publish ; also a necrological list for each year, with biographies of deceased members.
SECTION IX. Genealogist.
The Genealogist shall investigate all applications for membership and shall pass upon all claims for supple- mentals. His approval on all applications shall be re- quired before they are filed with the Registrar of the State or General Society. An appeal from his decision may be taken to the Committee on Membership and at their discretion to the Society. He shall be exempt from annual assessment and may receive such compen- sation as the Council shall decide.
SECTION X. Chancellor.
The Chancellor shall be a lawyer duly admitted to the bar, and it shall be his duty to give legal opinion on matters affecting the Society when called upon by any officer.
SECTION XI.
Chaplain.
The Chaplain shall be an ordained minister of a Christian church, and it shall be his duty to officiate when called upon by the proper officers.
SECTION XII.
Council.
The Council shall have power to call special Courts of the Society and arrange for celebrations by the
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Society. They shall have control and management of the affairs and funds of the Society. They shall per- form such duties as shall be prescribed by the Constitu- tion and By-Laws, but they shall at no time be required to take any action or contract any debt for which they shall be liable. They may accept the resignation of any member of the Society. They may meet as often as required or at the call of the Governor. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business ; at the General Court they shall submit to the Society a report of their proceedings during the past year. The Council shall have the power to drop from the roll the name of any member of the Society who shall be in arrears at least one year in payment of annual dues, and shall fail on proper notice to pay the same within sixty days, and on being dropped his membership shall cease ; but he may be restored to membership at any time by the Council upon his written application and the pay- ment of all such arrears from the date when he was dropped to the date of his restoration. The Council may suspend any officer for cause, which must be re- ported to the Society, and action taken on the same within thirty days. A careful record of all proceedings shall be kept and these records shall be the property of the Society.
SECTION XIII. Vacancies and Terms of Office.
Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or neglect to serve, or be suspended, or be unable to perform his duties by reason of absence, sickness, or other cause, and whenever an office shall be vacant which the Society shall not have filled by an election,
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the Council shall have power to appoint a member to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity until the Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, or until the inability due to said cause shall cease ; provided, however, that the office of Governor shall not be filled by the Council when there shall be a Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor to enter on the duties.
The Council may supply vacancies among its mem- bers under the same conditions, and should any mem- ber, other than an officer, be absent from three consecu- tive Councils of the same, his place may be declared vacant by the Council and filled by appointment until a successor is elected.
Subject to these provisions, all officers and gentlemen of the Council shall, from the time of election, continue in their respective offices until the next General Court, or until their successors are chosen.
SECTION XIV.
Resignation.
No resignation of any member shall become effective unless consented to by the Council or by vote of the Society.
SECTION XV.
Disqualifications.
No person who may be enrolled as a member of this Society shall be permitted to continue in membership when his proofs of descent or eligibility shall be found to be defective. The Council, after thirty days' notice to such person to substantiate his claim, and upon his failure satisfactorily to do so, may require the Secretary
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to erase his name from the membership list. The said person shall have a right to appeal to the Society at its next Court, or at the General Court. If the said appeal be sustained by a two-thirds vote of the members pres- ent at such Court, the said person's name shall be restored to said membership list.
SECTION XVI.
Membership.
Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good moral character and reputation, shall be eligible to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars who is lineally descended in the male or female line from an ancestor :
(I). Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a soldier, sailor, or marine, or as a privateersman, under authority of the Colonies, which afterwards formed the United States, or in the forces of Great Britian which participated with those of the said Colonies in any wars in which the said Colonies were engaged, or in which they enrolled men, from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775; or
(2). Who held office in any of the Colonies between the dates above mentioned, either as
(a). Director-General, Vice Director-General, or mem- ber of the Council or legislative body in the Colony of New Netherlands ;
(b). Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy-Governor, Lord Proprietor, member of the King's or Governor's Council or legislative body in the Colonies of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware ;
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(c). Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy-Governor, or member of the Council or of the legislative body in Maryland and the Carolinas ;
(d). Governor, Deputy-Governor, Governor's Assis- tant, or Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, or member of the Council, body of Assistants or legislative body in any of the New England Colonies ; provided that descent from Deputies to the General Assembly who performed no military service, shall not be available for entrance into this Society, but may be used for supplementary proof of honorable descent.
Applicants for membership must first make out a pre- liminary application endorsed by two members of the Society.
No application for membership will be accepted based only on traditional statements, nor unless such applica- tion be accompanied by a paged reference to public records or recognized authority, authenticating such ser- vice or rank, or when proof depends upon private docu- ments, by copies duly authenticated of such documents.
The admission fee of five dollars, and the annual dues of two dollars must accompany the preliminary appli- cation.
SECTION XVII.
Committee on Membership.
The Committee on Membership shall consist of five members. They shall be chosen by ballot at the Gen- eral Court of the Society, and shall be elected for the period of one year. They shall pass upon the prelimi- nary application of all applicants for membership. Three members shall constitute a quorum, and a negative vote of two members shall cause an adverse report to the
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Council or the Society on the candidate's application. The proceeding of the Committee shall be secret and confidential; and a candidate who has been rejected by the Council or the Society shall be ineligible for mem- bership for a space of one year from date of rejection, except upon the unanimous vote of the Committee.
The Committee shall have power to make By-Laws for its government, and for other purposes not inconsistent with the Constitution or By-Laws of the Society.
The Society may at any regularly called meeting resolve itself into a committee of the whole and act as a committee on membership.
SECTION XVIII. Expulsion or Suspension.
Any member for cause or conduct detrimental or antagonistic to the interest or purpose of the Society, may be suspended or expelled from the Society. But no member shall be expelled or suspended unless writ- ten charges be presented against such member to the Council.
The Council shall give reasonable notice of such charges, and afford such member reasonable oppor- tunity to be heard and refute the same. The Council, after hearing such charges, may recommend to the Society the expulsion or suspension of such member, and if the recommendation of the Council be adopted by a majority vote of the members of the Society present at such Court, he shall be so expelled or suspended, and the insignia of said member shall thereupon be returned to the Treasurer of the Society, and his rights therein shall be extinguished or suspended.
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SECTION XIX.
Courts.
The General Court of the Society shall be held on the anniversary of the capture of Louisburg, June 17, 1745.
Special Courts may be called by the Governor at such times as in his opinion the interests of the Society may> demand, and must be called by the Secretary on the written request of five members. All notices of meet- ings shall be sent out at least six days before the date of the meeting.
At all meetings five members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum.
At each Court of the Society, General or Special, immediately after the presiding officer shall have taken the chair, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read by the Secretary, and passed upon by the Society ; the next business in order shall be reports of officers and committees ; then new business.
SECTION XX.
Service of Notice.
It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secretary by written communication of his place of resi- dence and of any change thereof, and of his post-office address. Service of any notice, under the Constitution or By-Laws, on any member, addressed to his last resi- dence or post-office address, forwarded by mail, shall be efficient service of notice.
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SECTION XXI.
Certificate of Membership.
Members may receive a certificate of membership, which shall be signed by the Governor, Secretary, and Registrar.
SECTION XXII.
Alteration or Amendment.
No alteration or amendment of the By-Laws shall be made unless notice shall have been duly given in writ- ing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a Court of the Society.
The Secretary shall send a printed copy of the pro- posed amendment to the members of the Society, and state the Court at which the same will be voted upon. No amendment or alteration shall be made unless adopted by a two-thirds vote of the members present at the Court voting upon the same.
SECTION XXIII.
Election of Officers.
The officers, members of the Council, and Committee on Membership, shall be elected at the General Court by ballot. A plurality of the votes cast for each officer shall determine a choice thereof, and said officers, members of the Council, and Committee on Membership, shall hold office for the period of one year, or until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified.
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SECTION XXIV.
Delegates to the General Society.
There shall be chosen at every annual meeting five delegates and five alternates to the General Society.
SECTION XXV.
Flag.
The flag shall consist of the red cross of Saint George bearing in the centre the Seal of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire.
SECTION XXVI. Seal.
The Seal shall be : In the centre the Seal of the Prov- ince of New Hampshire as authorized by William III. and Mary II .- The shield of Great Britain as it existed in 1692 .- Quarterly, Ist and 4th, France and England ; 2d, or, a lion ramp. within a double tressure flory counter-flory, gu., for Scotland; 3d, az., a harp or, stringed ar., for Ireland; with an escutcheon of pre- tense, thereon the arms of Nassau, az. billetty, or, a lion ramp. gold-surrounded by the Garter and crested by the Royal Crowns. Without the shield; upon either side, the monogram of William and Mary and two cap- ital letters, R, entwined; beneath, the Royal Motto " Dieu et mon Droit"; the whole within the title scroll "SIG : PROVIN : N'RÆ : NOVA: HAMTON: IN : NOV : ANGLIA," and this again encircled by a second title scroll bearing the words SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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The English and the Indian in New Hampshire.'
BY CAPT. GEORGE AUGUSTUS GORDON.
COMRADES OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS, AND LADIES : It is to me a matter of pride in my native state that, despite the few forays of the Indian, her population have ever dwelt peacefully, and that the hostile foot of an armed foe never pressed her soil. Whatever participation the New Hampshire citizen has taken in war, its indulgence has been beyond her borders, and its horrors levied upon the industries and produc- tions of other communities.
I appear before you, on this occasion, not as the apologist of the Indian or the accuser of the Englishman ; but to consider, very briefly, the conditions in which they were placed, and to recognize the lesson which history teaches in restraint of hasty condemnation. The native nobility of Passaconaway did not assist him in conforming to the white man's mode of life, or dispose him to exchange the mild religious rites of his race for the rigid discipline and self-abnegation of the standing order of New England churches. The humanity and devotion of Wheelock, as the almoner of English charity, did not avail to establish the half-converted Indian in ways of peaceful industry, or to content him with a life of frugality. In the entire domain of provincial New Hampshire, extending from the Piscataqua
* Read at the Fourth General Court, Portsmouth, June 15, 1897.
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and the ocean tides to the gentle billows of Lake Champlain, not a solitary specimen of the red man dwells; and the college of Wheelock and Wentworth, located midway this princely terri- tory, extends its bounteous blessings to the white man alone. Instead of the tomahawk and the scalping-knife, a thousand looms incessantly weave comfortable clothing for all, and the scythe gathers sweet hay and golden grain from a thousand fields. Instead of rude wigwams and powwows of superstition, temples of the unseen, beneficent God, and school-houses stand side by side, that " peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all gen- erations."
Two thirds of a century ago, the poet-banker of Boston wrote the lines recited at the opening of the Portsmouth theatre,-
" Here as I gazed, in Nature's strength and grace Roamed the red warriors of a nameless race ; Swift flew their barks along the rocky shore ; Bright blazed their fires, loud rose their battle roar ; Rude love and ruder hate controlled the spot, Tribes conquered tribes, and were in turn forgot."
This territory, first named New Hampshire by John Mason, in memory of his native county in England, consisted then, as now,-when consideration is limited to so much as lies south of Lake Winnipesaukee-of three river valleys, the Pis- cataqua, the Merrimack, and the Connecticut. The two sec- tions of upland forming the crest between these valleys were little known to the early white settlers, and were regarded chiefly as valuable for their store of timber, peltry, and furs. The main settlements were confined, two centuries ago, to the ample intervals of the Piscataqua and its tributaries. Here. were the sawmills which gave employment to the hardy pio- neers, and here came the shallops of the deep sea fisheries with their abundant freight. In the half century which had preceded, the Englishman and the Indian had dwelt together in general peacefulness and quiet. This period had just closed
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