Annual ProceedingsThe Society, 1919 |
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American Anewalt April April 11 army Atlee Board of Managers born Chaplain CHARLEMAGNE TOWER Chester County Church Club Colonel Colonial Color Guard command Committee Company Connecticut Continental daughter December Dechert Delaware County delegate died EDWARD CARPENTER elected to membership father February flag founder France Fund GEORGE CUTHBERT GILLESPIE GILLINGHAM great-grandfather Great-great-grandson Griscom guns HENRY Historical Society honor hospital Hunterdon County James January JOHN MORIN SCOTT JOHN WOOLF JOHN WOOLF JORDAN JOSEPH FORNANCE JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH Judge Barratt July June June 13 Kent Lexington Alarm Liberty Loan lieutenant LL.D Major March McPherson NORRIS STANLEY BARRATT November officer patriotic Penn Pennsyl Pennsylvania Militia Pennsylvania Society President Private in Captain Regiment Revolution RICHARD MCCALL CADWALADER right of service SAMUEL Schnure Second Division Secretary Society of Pennsylvania Society of Sons soldiers STANLEY GRISWOLD survived sylvania Thomas Cadwalader Treasurer troops United vania vestryman vice-president victory Washington Wayne wife William wounded York
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Page 5 - It being evident from the steady decline of a proper celebration of the national holy days of the United States of America, that popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of Immigration from foreign countries, as to the neglect, on the part of...
Page 5 - Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in the military, naval, and civic service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel achieved the independence of the country...
Page 105 - ... adapted to ages of strife, shall be utterly and forever swept away. Through misery that has seemed unendurable and turmoil that has seemed endless, men have thought on that gracious life and its sublime ideal, and have taken comfort in the sweetly solemn message of peace on earth and good will to men.
Page 105 - Master knew full well that the time was not yet ripe — that he brought not peace, buta sword. But he preached nevertheless that gospel of great joy which is by and by to be realized by toiling Humanity, and he announced ethical principles fit for the time that is coming.
Page 5 - ... they lived ; therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men, who, in the military, naval and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of the country, and to further the proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and of prominent events connected with the war of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records...
Page 105 - But he preached nevertheless that gospel of great joy which is by and by to be realized by toiling Humanity, and he announced ethical principles fit for the time that is coming. The great originality of his teaching, and the feature that has chiefly given it power in the world, lay in the distinctness with which he conceived a state of society from which every vestige of strife, and the modes of behaviour adapted to ages of strife, shall be utterly and forever swept away.
Page 19 - Secretary, the reading of the minutes of 'the last annual meeting was dispensed with, in view of the fact that they have been printed on pages 59-(J8 of volume 11, number 3, of the American Mineralogist. ELECTION...
Page 48 - Venice, gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colors he had fought so long.
Page 64 - Pennsylvania, containing nineteen maps exhibiting the early grants & patents, compiled from official records; together with a history of the land titles in the county.
Page 49 - American line — the St. Louis, the St. Paul, the New York...