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The organization was founded in 1891, shortly after the founding of a similar society, the Colonial Dames of America (CDA), which was created to have a centrally organized structure under the control of the parent Society in New York City. The NSCDA was intended as a federation of State Societies in which each unit had a degree of autonomy. [1]
The house is now owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames in New Hampshire, and is open to the public. Horse chestnut tree. Among the contents are Whipple's sword and other personal items, along with a portrait of him. Outside is a horse chestnut tree that Whipple planted in 1776 with seeds that he brought back from Philadelphia. [3]
The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization comprising women who descend from one or more ancestors who lived in British North America between 1607 and 1775, and who aided the colonies in public office, in military service, or in another acceptable capacity.
She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. [9] In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago. [6] She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880. [6]
Owned since 1984 by the Colonial Dames of Wilmington, North Carolina. [8] He had two early students that went on to become well known artists: James Claypoole, Jr. (ca 1743–1822), and Matthew Pratt (1734–1805). He served as High Sheriff of Philadelphia from 1777–1780.
She was the president of the Colonial Dames for many years, as well as president of the Women’s Permanent Emergency Association of Germantown, which was founded more than 60 years earlier by her grandmother, and revived during World War II. She accepted honorary degrees from Ursinus College in 1933 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1941.
Dumbarton House, headquarters of National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, was purchased iby the NSCDA in 1928, and is NRHP-listed. General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters, Washington, D.C., built 1875, has served as headquarters of the GWFC since 1922, NRHP-listed. Sulgrave Club, Washington, D.C., NRHP-listed.
In 1895 to 1896, Mason restored the Senate Chamber in Congress Hall in Philadelphia, an initiative launched by The Colonial Dames of America. He died in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in 1924. [10] He is buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.