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The Society has long sought to improve public awareness of the importance of colonial events and individuals in the shaping of America. A number of monuments, plaques, and other markers have been installed by the Society at prevenient sites. [2] The Society also funds research and educational initiatives of colonial relevance.
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
The Pequot War from The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut; 1736 version of John Mason's account of the Pequot War; The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet or other Great Migration ships before 1634.
A guide to some of the Colonial Society's publication collections for the period of 1710 through 1939 is maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society. [2] The topics can vary from the Pilgrim Fathers, [3] to the pirate Captain Thomas Pound. [4] In partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston, it sponsors The New England Quarterly.
Simon Willard has been chronicled as one of the founders of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.Willard, then a Sergeant, and Lieutenant Edward Gibbons, were sent by John Winthrop (1606–1676) — son of John Winthrop (1587–1649), Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony — to occupy the mouth of what is now the Connecticut River (Long Island Sound) with 20 carpenters and workmen.
The First Colonial Soldiers: A Survey of British overseas territories and their garrisons, 1650 - 1714. Volume 2: The Americas and the Caribbean (Eindhoven: Drenth Publishing, 2015) Ferling, John E. Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America (1993), to 1763; Gallay, Alan, ed. Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763: An Encyclopedia ...
It was dissolved after numerous colonial charters were revoked in the early 1680s. John Quincy Adams remarked at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society on the 200th anniversary of the Confederation's founding: The New England confederacy was destined to a life of less than forty years' duration.
General Society of Colonial Wars (1 July 2006). General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars 1899–1902: Constitution of the General Society. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4286-6309-1. Griffin, Simon Goodell (1980). The History of Keene, New Hampshire. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-917890-21-5. Hall, Benjamin (1858).