MINUTES AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION,, 1897-1916

Summary: State Minutes: scattered minutes and officers' reports, 1897-1900, 1904-1905 and 1909-1910. The amount of information is very incomplete. This series also includes blank Historical Statement Forms that were used by potential members to document their lineage for the membership application process.

Of interest in this series is a biographical sketch of and the Historical Statement Form for William Raymond Weeks, who was a member of the New Jersey Society from June 30, 1896, until his resignation on December 20, 1902.

National Minutes: minutes of annual meetings of the General Court of the OFPA, 1902-1909 and 1911-1916. This subseries also includes the text of addresses by several dignitaries at the annual meeting of the General Court held in Philadelphia in 1907. Among the addresses is one by the then Mayor of Philadelphia, John H. Reyburn.