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This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (1 C, 2 P) National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1 C, 50 P) Native plant societies based in the United States (14 P)
American Association for State and Local History (2002), Directory of historical organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.), Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, ISBN 9780759100022 – via archive.org; 2022 National Census of History Organizations, American Association for State and Local History
Prior to HSC, efforts to index the aggregate data related to American lineage societies included Bailey Banks and Biddle's (1917) American Orders & Societies and Their Decorations, [13] John Griffin Richardson Rountree's (1970–1983) publication, The Hereditary Register, [14] as well as a brief publication in the 1990s, The Hereditary Society ...
American Physical Society 20 May 1899: College Park: American Political Science Association 1903: Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association Jul 1892: Washington, D.C. American Psychology–Law Society 1968: San Francisco: American Society of Church History 1888: American Society of Criminology 1941: American Society of Questioned ...
Founded by German religious separatists who wanted religious freedom in America. Old Economy Village: Pennsylvania George Rapp: 1824 1906 A Harmonites Village. The Harmony Society is a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785. Nashoba: Tennessee Frances Wright: 1825 1828 An abolitionist, free-love community ...
Secret societies in the United States (including those founded in the United States that later spread to other countries, and those founded/inspired elsewhere that came to the United States). Subcategories
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]