- Title
- Literary and historical activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905, Volume 1
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- Date
- 1907
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina. Office of Archives and History."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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- Series
- Publications of the Historical Commission, volume 1
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Literary and historical activities in North Carolina, 1900-1905, Volume 1
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Litekary and IiisTOKrC-u, Activities
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THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA
t NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY).
AlllS. EMMA MAFFITT.
The above Society was organized in Wilmington, X. C.,
in March, 1S94. Societies of Colonial Dames had been
formed in other of the thirteen Colonial States, and an appeal
was made to Mrs. George Wilson Kidder, of this city, who
had become known through her services as one of the Lady
Managers of the World’s Pair, to organize a society of Colo¬
nial Dames in Xorth Carolina. She accordingly called to¬
gether a number of ladies, stated the object of the meeting,
and invited them to join her in forming a society.
She was chosen President, the other officers being Mrs.
Adam Empic and Mrs. Clayton Giles for Vice-Presidents;
Miss Adelaide M cares, Secretary; Miss Louise Cutlar (the
late Airs. Justice), Treasurer, and Mis? Mary S. Kingsbury,
Historian. A charter was obtained, and thus this Society,
of about fifteen women, started in its career.
The constitution of the Xational Society of the Colonial
Dames of America is also that of the State; Societies. Its
preamble shows the purposes of its organization, and is as
follows :
“Whereas, history stiows that the remembrance of a nation's glory
iu the nast stimulates to national greatness in the future, and that
successive generations are awakened to truer patriotism and aroused
to nobler endeavor by the contemplation of the heroic deeds of the
forefathers: therefore, the Society of Colonial Dames of America lias
been formed, that the descendants of those men who in the Colonial
period, by their rectitude, courage, and self-denial, prepared the
way for success in that; struggle which gained for the country its
liberty and constitution, may associate themselves together to do
honor to the virtues of their forefathers, and to encourage in all who
come under their inlluein-e. true patriotism, built on a knowledge of
I lie self-sacrifice and heroism of those men of the colonies who laid
l lie foundation of this great Nation.
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