Boxes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 are restricted. See General Note field below.
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Williamsburg Chapter
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Daughters of the American Revolution, Williamsburg Chapter records, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Original order has been maintained, materials are minimally processed.
Includes chapter history albums and scrapbooks, special reports, Virginia DAR proceedings, Williamsburg DAR regular and executative meeting minutes, awards, commemorative banners.
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Event binders for the following date ranges: 2000-2009; 2010-2015; and 2015-2016. Materials include newspaper clippings, programs, letters, photographs, invitations, event scripts, and other commemorative materials.
Event binders for the following date ranges: 1974-1983; and 1984-1999. Materials include newspaper clippings, programs, letters, photographs, invitations, event scripts, anc other commemorative materials.
Constitution Week scrapbooks for 2010, 2013, and 2014. Material includes programs, photographs, official proclamations, pamphlets and certificates.
Constitution Week Scrapbooks for the following date ranges: 1987-1990; 1990-1994; 1994-2000; 2000-2005; 2002; and 2005-2009.
Materials include 2017-2019 Memorial Book (containing obituaries for chapter members); 2015-2016 Commemorative Events Committee; 2016 National Park Service 100 Anniversary; 2015 Commemorative Events Report; 2015 National Program Winner; 2014 Vietnam War Certificate; Vietnam War Commemoration Materials; 2012 State of Membership report; 2011 Flag of the United States report
Chapter History 2009-2010 Chapter History 1925-1998
Chapter History, 2014-2015 Chapter History, 2014-2016 Chapter History, 2014-2017
Chapter and State Awards, 1980-1988, 2002-2013 State Awards and Certificates, 2014-2015 Commemorative Event Binders, 2011, 2013, 2016 Cedar Grove Cemetery The Cemeteries of Colonial Williamsburg and Cedar Grove Cemetery, Part II Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendents, Vol. II Historical Sketch of Bruton Church, Williamsburg Virginia, by W.A.R. Goodwin (autographed copy), Franklin Press, Petersburg, Virginia, 1903 Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine A Century of Service to the Nation, 1890-1990 (2 copies) Letters, documents and pictures from 1971-present Personal Account of San Franscisco earthquake Accounting of DAR items in Swem Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine July 1921 and February 1922 State and City Proclamations for Constitution Week
Naturalizations, 1973-2018; Jamestown Youth Ceremony, 2012-2018; 4th of July Ceremony, 1971-2018
Virginia DAR Yearbook and Proceedings of Annual State Conferences, 1990, 1993, 1996-2016
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Four boxes of microfilm, 1931-1983
Four discs of regular meeting minutes, 2005-2013; executive board minutes, 2006-2011
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Regular meeting minutes are restricted for 20 years except to current members in good standing of the Williamsburg chapter. Permission for current members in good standing to access minutes from the last 20 years must be granted in advance in writing or email to spcoll@wm.edu by the current Regent or Recording Secretary. A current roster of Board members shall be provided by the Regent to the library at the change of each office term or when updates occur.
Executive Board Minutes may only be accessed by the current Regent or Recording Secretary.
The current chapter Regent may make a written request to borrow material from the Williamsburg DAR collection two (2) times in a calendar year and/or at the new officer's induction meeting. Requests for a private viewing of materials in the Special Collections area of the library for special chapter events may be made in writing by the chapter regent to the Director of the Special Collections Research Center.
Framed charter of the Williamsburg Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution, includes 26 names of original charter members. The National Society of the DAR approved the Williamsburg Chapter on April 24, 1925; framed charter document signed on April 18, 1927.
Yearbooks are restricted from the public. Please refer to William & Mary Special Collections Research Center Staff at spcoll@wm.edu for more information.
This series includes applications, a certificate of recognition signed by former Virginia governor (2018-2022), Ralph Northam and a proclamation signed by Williamsburg Mayor Paul T. Freiling. Other papers include correspondence and brochures related to the Youth Citizenship ceremony, Virginia Thanksgiving festival, as well as the naturalization ceremony and the July wreath laying ceremony. Reports on Americanism are also included. Yearbooks in this series are restricted from the public.
2 albums containing application records and 1 folder containing certificate and proclamation
Contains 4 legal size folders of correspondence and reports related to various DAR ceremonies.
Yearbooks are restricted from the public. Please refer to William & Mary Special Collections Research Center Staff at spcoll@wm.edu for more information.
four binders