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Title: The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: General Society of Mayflower Descendants cn
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Publisher: (New York, The De Vinne press)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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t, which made them pio-neers of a principle, for which they exiled themselves,first to a foreign land, then to an unexplored wilderness,in search of civil and religious liberty. The compact, drafted and signed on the Mayflower,while in Cape Cod Harbor, November ii (o. s.) 1620,before they landed, was the expression of this fact; andbecame for all time the germ of the American Constitu-tion (evolved in due time) as well as the foundation ofEnglish Christianity and civil liberty in New England,which, by their influence and example, have spread untilthey have leavened the entire nationality, though madeup of settlers from every land and clime, and bringingthe education and prejudices of divers, even antagonistic,races. The memorable compact thus became the key-note ofour association, and its date our anniversary day. In order to emphasize the Pilgrim idea, as exhibited bythose who faced the persecutions in England and pursuitto Holland, formed the church and community of Eng- 1% Si. :;«
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1 HISTORY AND MEETINGS 5 lish Christians in Amsterdam and Leyden, and finallyfirst braved the perils of the wilderness to find what wasdenied them elsewhere, we limited our membership tolineal descendants of passengers and signers of the com-pact on the first trip of the Mayflower, which ended atPlymouth in 1620. We point to the vessel and the voy-age, rather than the landing and the settlement. In answer to a hurried line, sent amid a press of duties,two agreed upon a third, and formulated a call which wasprinted and issued in manner following: New York, December isth, 1894. You are invited to be present at a conference of the descen-dants of the Mayflower Pilgrims, who landed at Plymouth in 1620.The meeting will be held at the rooms of the New York Gen-ealogical Society, No. 23 West 44th Street, at 8 P. M., on theanniversary of the landing, Dec. 22d, 1894. Please extend this invitation to any of your friends who had an-cestors on the Mayflower. RICHARD H. GREENE. EDWARD L. NORTON.WI

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