The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . HISTORY AND MEETINGS HE Society of Mayflower Descendantscame into existence in the month of De-cember, 1894. It was not the first organization in-tended to honor the Pilgrim Fathers exclu-sively. The Pilgrim Society was organ-ized in 1820 and still exists for thispurpose, with headquarters at Plymouth,Massachusetts, as well as the Pilgrim Rec-ord Society, organized in New York, De-cember 30, 1875, continuing until about1881. The latter, possibly both of th
The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . HISTORY AND MEETINGS HE Society of Mayflower Descendantscame into existence in the month of De-cember, 1894. It was not the first organization in-tended to honor the Pilgrim Fathers exclu-sively. The Pilgrim Society was organ-ized in 1820 and still exists for thispurpose, with headquarters at Plymouth,Massachusetts, as well as the Pilgrim Rec-ord Society, organized in New York, De-cember 30, 1875, continuing until about1881. The latter, possibly both of these, included, withthe May-Rozver Pilgrims, those coming on the Fortune,the Ann, and the Little James. While these societies were formed distinctively inhonor of the Pilgrims, the New England societies, whichhave had an honorable place among the organizations of. 4 SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS the land, honored Pilgrims, Puritans, and all other found-ers, as well as all citizens who have added to the gloryof New England. The New England Society, having adopted as its dayfor annual celebration the date of the landing of the Pil-grims on Plymouth Rock, we were compelled to chooseanother day, for it was becoming that nothing should in-terfere with what already existed in honor of the Pil-grims, especially as all who would come into our mem-bership were either enrolled or interested there. The Society of Mayflower Descendants was not in-tended so much to honor the individuals or their leadersas to commemorate the sentiment, 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 Mayflozver,while in Cape Cod Harbor, November ii (o, s.) 1620,before they landed, was the expression of this fa
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