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The Society of Colonial Wars in the
State of North Carolina

Membership Criteria

The General Society of Colonial Wars The first society of Colonial Wars was established in 1892, and became the General Society of Colonial Wars in 1893. The General Society is a tax-exempt organization under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It charters individual State Societies, and it is in one or more of the State Societies that an individual holds membership. The aggregate of State Societies constitutes the General Society. The Society of Colonial Wars exists in thirty States (including all the Thirteen Original Colonies) and the District of Columbia; tentative efforts are being made for new Societies in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Qualification For Membership

Article II of the Bylaws provides;

"Any male person above the age of eighteen years of good moral character and reputation, shall be eligible to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars, provided he be lineally descended in the male or female line from an ancestor:

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 afterward formed the United States, or in the forces of Great Britain which participated with those of the said Colonies which afterward formed the United States, or in the forces of Great Britain which participated with those of the said Colonies in any wars in the 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 mentioned above, as

Director General, Vice-Director General, or member of the Council or legislative
body in the Colony of New Netherlands;

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 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.

A Justice, Judge, Justice of the Peace, or other Judicial officer.

No State Society shall adopt any rule of this eligibility of membership other than that prescribed in this Article.

Membership in the Society shall not be held completed until the application papers relating thereto have been approved by the Registrar General."

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