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
Society were New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
The General Society is a federation of 52 Independant 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.
1. To perpetuate to a remote posterity 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 spots made memorable by Pilgrim
association.
