Manuscript Group 1170, Daughters of the American Colonists, New Jersey Society Records, 1924 – 1981

 

Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs

 

Manuscript
Group # 1170

 

Daughters
of the American Colonists

 

New
Jersey Society

 

Records,
1924-1981

 

7
linear feet

 

 

 

 

Updated
by S. Sullivan

 

2000

 

 

Scope
and Content Notes:

 

 

 

The
New Jersey State Society of the Daughters of the American
Colonists Records contains records of the society that span the
years 1924-1981.  The New Jersey Society of the Daughters of
the American Colonists was established by a small group of women
in January of 1924.  The group first called itself the
Captain Francis Drake chapter but later changed its name to the
Governor Philip Carteret chapter.  Committee reports,
correspondence, meeting minutes, public relations work book, year
books, lineage book of members, eligibility rules, by-laws, and
information on various commemorative activities of the
organization.

 

 

Provenance:

 

 

The
records were donated as a gift to

Archives

Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs from Harriet Stryker-Rodda in 1982.

 

 

Manuscript
Group # 1170

 

Daughters
of the American Colonists

 

New
Jersey Society

 

Records,
1924-1981

 

 

Container List

 

 

 

Box
Description
Dates

 

 

1
Committee Reports
1933-1960’s

 

 

2
Committee Reports and Correspondence
1945-1979

 

 

3
Minutes/ Reports/ Yearbooks
1928-1968

 

 

4
Regents Books and President’s Files
1941-1963

 

 

5
Miscellaneous MCR
1944-1979

 

 

6
National Organizations Materials

 

 

7
National Organizations Materials

 

 

8
Reports/ Histories. Photos

 

 

9
Scrapbooks

 

 

 

**A
folder level description is contained in an original handwritten
format in the data file.
**

 

 

ADDED
TO COLLECTION:

 

 

The following records of this New Jersey
Chapter were returned to the Chapter sometime during the summer
of 1986 and will be added to the collected records which have
been deposited at the New Jersey Historical Society at 52 Park
Place, Newark, New Jersey:

 

 
State Regents’ Files

 

Some
contain copies of reports and all contain various miscellaneous
items.  Files are marked:

 

 

Regent’s
Book 1943-1944

 

Regent’s
Book and Reports 1952-1953

 

Regent’s
Book and Official Reports 1952-1961

 

Annual
Reports 1953-1958

 

Regent’s
Book (President’s file 1961-1962)

 

Regent’s
Book (President’s file 1962-1963)

 

History
of the State Regents 1944-1954

 

 
State Historians’ Books of Reports

 

Book
I, 1824-1949

 

Book
II, 1941-1858

 

Records
of Meetings, Accomplishments, and Biographies, 1924-1958

 
Contains certificates of incorporation and other legal matters

 

 
Historian’s Historical Scrapbooks

 

1
– 1934-1944

 

1
– 1959-1964

 

1
– Correct Use of the Flag, Scrapbook by Evelyn L. Ogden,
Chairman of the

 
committee, 1943-1946

 

 

1
-4×6 file of cards: World War II, Family War Service Data

 
(War Service of the sons and husbands of DAC NJ State members)

 

 

These
items were added to Manuscript Group 1170 in 1986.

 

 

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