Membership

Membership in the Society is open to any man of good moral character age eighteen and above who is lineally descended in the male or female line from an ancestor who rendered qualifying service to one of the British American colonies.

Qualifying Service

• ✦Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a soldier, sailor, or marine, or as a privateersman, under authority of any of the Colonies which afterwards formed the United States, or in the forces of Great Britain which participated with those of the said Colonies in any wars in which the said Colonies were engaged, or in which they enrolled men, during the period from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775; or
• ✦Who held office in any of the Colonies between the dates above mentioned, as:
• ✦Director General, Vice Director General, or member of the Council, or Legislative body, in the Colony of the New Netherland;
• ✦Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, Lord Proprietor, member of The King's or Governor's Council, or of the legislative body, in the Colony of New York, the Jerseys, Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Delaware;
• ✦Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy Governor, or member of the Council, or of the legislative body, in Maryland, the Carolinas, or Georgia;
• ✦Governor, Deputy Governor, Governor's Assistant, or Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, or member of the Council, body of Assistants, or legislative body, in any of the New England colonies; or
• ✦Justice, Judge, Justice of the Peace, or other judicial officer.