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Excerpt from Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Revolution: Historical Memoranda, With Lists of Members and Their Revolutionary Ancestors Section I. Any man shall be eligible to membership in this Society who, being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and rendered actual service in the cause of American Independence, either as an officer, soldier, Seaman, marine, militia-man, or minute man in the armed forces of the Continental Congress, or of any one of the several Colonies or States; or as a Signer of the Decla ration of Independence; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence; or as a member of any Continental, Provin cial, or Colonial Congress or Legislature; or as a civil officer, either of one of the Colonies or States or of the national govem ment; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain. Sect. 2. Applications for membership shall be made to any State Society, in duplicate, upon blank forms prescribed by the General Board of Managers, and shall in each case set forth the name, occupation, and residence of the applicant, his line of de scent, and the name, residence, and services of his ancestor or ancestors in the Revolution, from Whom he derives eligibility. The applicant shall make oath that the statements of his applica tion are true, to the best of his knowledge and belief. Upon the approval of an application by the State Society, to which it is made, one Copy shall be transmitted to the registrar-general of the National Society, who shall examine further the eligibility of the applicant. If satisfied that the member is not eligible, he shall return the application for correction. No election of a new member Shall be valid, unless his eligibility Shall be approved by the registrar-general and in case of such return the State Society shall, in failure to satisfy the registrar-general of the eligibility of such applicant, drop his name from membership. Sect. 3. The official designation of the members of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Shall be Compatriots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.