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National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Virginia Branch
Recipient of 2016 Sarah O. Dunaway Award and 2019 3rd Place Outstanding Chapter Award 

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2019-21 Branch Governor, Charles Poland
                           Governor’s Message, October, 2019

Dear Sons and Daughters,
Our next meeting will be March 8, 2020 at Houlihan's in the Hilton Hotel, 6550 Louisdale Road, 
Springfield  at 11:00 am social time, meeting at 11:30.  Our speaker will be the Rev. Tom Costa.  
 
The next General Court will be at noon on April 20, 2020 at the University Club, Washington, DC.
 
Remember that the National Website is up and running. The site is www.SocietyofthePilgrims.com so now we have access to officers, committee chairmen, bylaws, ancestors, and other information.  Please check it out.
 

Virginia Branch NSSDP – Officers 2019-2021
Governor: Chuck Poland
First Vice Governor: Allison Hoopes
Second Vice Governor: Natalie Ardoline
Recording Secretary: Paul Walden
Corresponding Secretary: Anne Terio
Treasurer: Lorraine Sims
Registrar: Janice Welch
Historian: Robert Hoopes
Elder: Ritchie Dagg
 
For our Outreach Project please bring clothing donations for The Final Salute to benefit homeless female veterans.
 
Respectfully,
Chuck Poland, Virginia Branch Governor





Our motto:  ""Land of our Fathers!  Ours  to Preserve.  Ours to Transmit.  Liberty in  Union; Now and Forever."

List of Ancestors of Members of Virginia Branch (using Excel you can locate your ancestor using the "find" function) updated Jul 2016.  A list of ancestors of the entire NSSDP membership can be found on the NSSDP website:  www.nssdp.com/membership/ancestors-of-the-society/
Membership in the National  Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims shall be through a Branch and is  divided into three classes: 

(1)  Regular Membership - Any person of  good character having attained the age of eighteen years, in lineal descent  from  any Pilgrim, shall be eligible for regular membership if acceptable to a  Branch  and the National Society provided the application and required  documentation are  approved by the Society's Registrar General.

(2)   Junior Membership - Any  person of good character under the age of twenty-one  years and of Pilgrim  ancestry may be enrolled as a Junior Member with approved  documented  application.

(3)  Associate Membership - A spouse of a  Regular Member in  good standing may be received as an Associate Member.   Associate Members are not  eligible for membership under their own  right.

To be  eligible for Regular Membership and Junior Membership,  applicant must prove  lineal descent from a Pilgrim.  For the purpose of the  Society, the term  "Pilgrim" shall denote any immigrant who settled before 1700  within the  territory which became the forty-eight contiguous states of the  United States of  America without regard to religion of place or origin. 
 

                      
          
 VIRGINIA  BRANCH PROJECT
 
The Mosher Fund was  established at the 13 October 1991 meeting of the Virginia Branch using a 
$1000.00  contribution given by Lt. Col. Charles M. Mosher, USMC (Ret.) who is  deceased.  By a motion adopted at  that meeting, the $1000.00 contribution was invested and the income from the  investment is donated to the Bicknell Scholarship Fund. A later motion was  adopted at the October 1991 meeting to provide that the annual dues notice  would include a space where members who wish, could donate to the Mosher Fund,  since it had been Lt. Col. Mosher’s hope the fund would grow over
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HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIA BRANCH

 The Virginia Branch,  organized Sunday, 28 March 1976 with eleven members. The organizing  meeting was held at  the home of Mrs. James G. Somerville (Muriel), Organizing Governor, in  Alexandria, VA.  The eleven state members, state number 1-11 were:  Mrs. Somerville, Mr.  James G. Somerville,  Mrs. Darius W. Gaskins (Ceres), Mrs. David L. Bailey (Martha), Mrs.  James A. Samouce  (Elton), Mr. Charles E. Loucks, Mrs. Charles E. Loucks (Barbara), Mrs.  Paul E. Stitzel  (Rosemoyne), Mrs. Foley W. Harris (Nancy), Mrs. Robert C. Shultz (Jean),  and Mrs. John Wilson  Davis (Ann). Organizing Branch Officers were Governor Muriel Somerville; First  Deputy Governor, Ceres Gaskins; Recording Secretary, Nancy Harris; Treasurer,  Ann Davis; Registrar, Barbara Loucks; Historian, James Somerville; and Elder,  Jean Schultz. The Virginia Branch celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on 28  March 2001, and has in 2012, approximately 100 members. 
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Founders of the Virginia Branch, at 28 Mar 1976 organizational meeting:  Sitting:  Governor General Holle, Standing (L to R):  Jean Shultz, Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Foley Harris, Mrs. and Mr. James Somerville. Mrs. Somerville was the first VA Branch Governor

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Ancestors of Virginia Branch as of 9 Feb 2018

Attached are two lists:  one in PDF format and one in Excel format.  The Excel file has filters in place that will allow you to quickly navigate through the list.
ancestor_list_for_web_2018.xlsx
File Size: 37 kb
File Type: xlsx
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National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims Website:   www.nationalssdp.org

Insignia Order Form (as of Oct 2018): 

insignia_order_form.pdf
File Size: 266 kb
File Type: pdf
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