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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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- Date
- October 1906
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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THE N. C. SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE REVO¬
LUTION AND ITS OBJECTS.
BY MRS. E. E. MOFFITT, REGENT.
The Society “Daughters of the Revolution” was founded
by Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, October 11, 1890. It was
organized August 20, 1891, and was duly incorporated under
the laws of the State of Few York as an organization national
in its work and purpose.
The occasion of its founding was to provide a society whose
terms of membership should be based upon direct descent
from Revolutionary ancestors, in which organization admis¬
sion upon collateral claims would he impossible. This rule,
clearly stated at time of organization, lias been rigidly ob¬
served, and the Society is justly proud of its membership,
representing as it does the direct descendants of soldiers and
statesmen of the Revolution.
The distinctive feature of the government of the Society is
its system of State Societies and local Chapters; the officers
and Board of Managers of the General Society have entire
superintendence and management of the whole organization,
while subject to this oversight, State Societies regulate and
direct their own affairs. A State Society may be organized
wherever there are at least twenty members residing within
the State, and a local Chapter may he formed by five mem¬
bers living in the same locality. The State membership in¬
cludes all members oi' local Chapters formed in the State.
The objects of the Society as stated in the Constitution arc:
“To perpetuate the patriotic spirit of the men and women
who achieved American Independence ; to commemorate prom¬
inent. events connected with the War of the Revolution; to
collect, publish and preserve the rolls, records and historic
documents relating to that period : to encourage the study of
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