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Society Objectives

In remembrance of the God-fearing and dauntless Pilgrims who were mostly English settlers in New England, their descendants founded the General Society of Mayflower Descendants on January 12, 1897. The original four (4) State Societies were New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

The General Society is a federation of 52 Independent Societies, consisting of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada. The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Washington was chartered in 1912. Our objectives are:

1. To perpetuate the memory of our Pilgrim Fathers.

2. To maintain and defend the principle of civil and religious liberty set forth in the Compact of the Mayflower.

3. To cherish and maintain the ideals and institutions of American Freedom, and to oppose any theories or actions that threaten that continuity.

4. To transmit the spirit, the purity of purpose and steadfastness of will of the Pilgrim Fathers to those who shall come after us, an undiminished heritage of liberty and law.

5. To promote the interests that are common to all the State Societies of Mayflower Descendants which can best be served by a federal body.

6. To secure united effort to discover and publish original matter in regard to the Pilgrims, together with existing data known only to antiquarians.

7. To authenticate, preserve and mark historical places made memorable by Pilgrim association.