EARLY AMERICAN GOVERNORS GROUP’S $2K DONATION (SPRING 2026)

 


A recently founded lineage group open to membership from descendants of important historical figures, including Roger Conant, has chosen the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) to receive a donation of $2,000. 

 The board of Descendants of Early American Governors (DEAG) voted in favour of the donation, and at the Annual Meeting last November over 50 members confirmed this choice. 

 Founded in 1791, the MHS is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. The $2,000 donation will be used for digitization of the Thomas Prince Papers. 

 Thomas Prince was a Boston clergyman and historian. He served as minister at Boston's Old South (Third) Church from 1718 until his death in 1758. His published works included the multi-volume A Chronological History of New-England, in the Form of Annals. 

 His papers in the MHS collection include an astronomical diary containing brief, intermittent entries on phases of the moon, and positioning of the planets in 1701-1702; the sermon he delivered at his ordination as pastor of the Old South (Third) Church of Boston and a sermon on the death of his son Thomas Prince, Jr., 9 October 1748. 

 There are many membership-based groups in the USA for descendants of specific historical figures or groups, requiring applicants to prove a bloodline connection to a qualifying ancestor. Examples include the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War for Civil War service. 

 The DEAG was founded on 26 October 2023. It is open to membership from men and women,18 years of age or older, who are direct lineal descendants of an ancestor who was appointed or elected to serve as the chief executive officer of the Colony, State, Commonwealth or Territory as a Governor, Acting Governor, President, Deputy Governor or Lt. Governor within the boundaries of present-day United States of America between 1607 and 1860. Currently the DEAG has well over 300 members. Click on https://www.earlygovernors.org/ to find out more.

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