HEREDITARY SOCIETIES
HEREDITARY SOCIETIES
The following societies are listed in the Hereditary Society Blue Book. For further information on any society, please consult a copy of the Hereditary Society Blue Book at your local public library, or
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YEAR FOUNDED HEREDITARY SOCIETY NAME
1600
1637 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
1673 Ancient and Honourable Order of the Jersey Blues
1700
1729 Welsh Society of Philadelphia
1747 Saint Andrew's Society of Philadelphia
1756 Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
1770 Saint George's Society of New York
1771 Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia
1772 Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia
1783 Society of the Cincinnati
1790 Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York
1800
1805 New England Society in the City of New York
1814 Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland
1826 Military Society of the War of 1812
1835 Saint David's Society of the State of New York
1835 The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
1837 Cleveland Grays
1850 Society of California Pioneers
1865 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
1867 Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
1876 General Society Sons of the Revolution
1881 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
1883 Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
1883 The Huguenot Society of America
1885 Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865
1885 Holland Society of New York
1885 Huguenot Society of South Carolina
1885 Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
1889 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
1889 Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America
1890 Colonial Order of the Crown
1890 Legion of Valor of the United States of America
1890 The Colonial Dames of America
1890 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
1890 Naval Order of the United States
1891 Daughters of the Republic of Texas
1891 The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America
1892 National Society United States Daughters of 1812
1892 Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
1893 Sons of the Republic of Texas
1893 General Society of Colonial Wars
1894 General Society of the War of 1812
1894 Colonial Order of the Acorn
1894 Daughters of the Cincinnati
1894 Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
1894 Royal Society of Saint George
1894 United Daughters of the Confederacy
1894 Sons and Daughters of Nantucket
1895 National Society Children of the American Revolution
1895 National Society of New England Women
1895 Order of Washington
1895 The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
1895 Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
1896 Order of Indian Wars of the United States
1896 Sons of Confederate Veterans
1896 National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
1896 Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
1896 Children of the Confederacy
1896 Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
1897 General Society of Mayflower Descendants
1897 Minnesota Territorial Pioneers
1898 Order of the Crown in America
1898 National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
1898 Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
1899 Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States
1900
1900 Military Order of the Carabao
1901 International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
1901 Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers
1902 Plantagenet Society
1903 Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
1903 Daughters of Hawaii
1905 The 1889ER Society
1905 Piscataqua Pioneers
1906 The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
1907 Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
1908 National Society Americans of Royal Descent
1908 National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
1909 The National Society Magna Charta Dames
1910 National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
1910 Society of the Ark and Dove
1911 Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
1912 Order of First Families of Virginia
1912 National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865, Inc.
1914 Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars
1914 United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
1915 National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
1916 Society of Indiana Pioneers
1917 Louisiana Colonials
1919 Military Order of the World Wars
1920 National Society Daughters of the British Empire in the USA
1920 Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles
1920 Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington
1921 National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
1921 National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
1921 National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
1922 Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia
1924 The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany
1927 Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts
1927 Sons of Spanish American War Veterans
1927 National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.
1928 North American Manx Association
1929 Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
1931 Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
1931 Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter
1932 National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
1932 Military Order of the Purple Heart
1932 Sons of the American Legion
1932 Somerset Chapter Magna Charta Barons
1933 Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
1933 National Society Sons of Utah Pioneers
1934 Children of the Republic of Texas
1934 Military Order of the Crusades
1936 Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
1938 National Society of the Lords of the Maryland Manors
1938 Military Order of the Stars and Bars
1939 National Society Children of the American Colonists
1939 Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
1940 Descendants of the Jersey Settlers of Adams County Mississippi
1941 Knights of the Order of San Jacinto
1942 American Ex-Prisoners of War
1950 Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain
1951 National Huguenot Society
1956 National Society of Sons of the American Colonists
1958 Order of Lafayette
1962 National Society Southern Dames of America
1962 Flagon and Trencher
1963 Society of the Founders of the City of New Orleans
1964 First Families of Ohio
1965 San Jacinto Descendants
1966 Hood's Texas Brigade Association
1967 Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817
1969 Los Californianos
1973 Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
1974 Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
1974 Descendants of Whaling Masters
1975 Society of Boonesborough
1975 The Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
1976 First Families of South Carolina
1976 Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
1976 United States Cavalty Association
1980 National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
1980 The Founders of Natchitoches
1981 Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
1981 Los Pobladores 200
1982 Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
1982 Society of Kentucky Pioneers
1983 Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
1985 The Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts
1985 National Society Sons of Colonial New England
1986 First Families of Georgia 1733-1797
1987 Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars
1987 Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred
1987 Associated Daughters of Early American Witches
1987 Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution
1988 Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
1988 First Families of the Twin Territories
1988 The National Society Ladies of the Thistle
1988 Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company
1989 Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
1990 Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization
1990 National Society First Families of Minnesota
1990 National Order of the Blue and Gray
1990 Plymouth Hereditary Society
1991 Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
1991 Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1991 Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters
1991 Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida
1992 International Military Order of the Southern Cross
1992 Saint George's Society of Los Angeles
1993 Order of the First World War
1994 Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
1995 Order of the Second World War
1995 Presidential Families of America
1995 Founders of the New Haven Colony
1995 National Society of First Families of Delmarva
1996 Society of Descendants of the Alamo