Qualifications:
Membership in the General
Society comes from membership in a State Society. For a specific State Society’s membership eligibility requirements
and application procedures interested parties should contact the State
Secretary. In general, here are
the eligibility requirements:
Any male
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:
1. Who served as a military or naval
officer, or as a soldier, sailor, or marine, or as a privateers man, 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 in any wars in 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
2. Who held office in any of the
Colonies between the dates above mentioned, as:
(a) Director General, Vice Director General, or
member of the Council, or legislative body, in the Colony of the New
Netherlands;
(b) 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, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, or
Delaware;
(c) Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy Governor, or
member of the Council, or of the legislative body in Maryland, the Carolinas,
or Georgia;
(d) 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.
(e) Justice, Judge, Justice of the Peace or other judicial officer.