Jamestowne Society Membership Requirements
Membership in the Jamestowne
Society is by invitation and in accordance with the Society's bylaws. Begin the
application process by contacting a member of the Jamestowne
Society or the Jamestowne Society Company
most convenient to you, and expressing your interest in becoming a member.
Prospective members must demonstrate descent from a Qualifying Jamestowne Ancestor to the satisfaction
of the Society genealogist.
Upon your receipt of an invitation from
the Society to apply for membership, and your acceptance of the invitation, you
will be sent a preliminary application to complete. This form has a space for
you to indicate your qualifying Jamestowne ancestor.
The preliminary application also serves as an order form for the Jamestowne Society Application Software. All
applications must be completed using the Society's computer software.
After review of your preliminary
application, if it appears that you are a candidate for Society membership, you
will be sent the application software on your choice of either a CD or a floppy
disk. E-mail your completed
application to Bonnie Hofmeyer, Office Manager, at jamestowne.society@verizon.net, and mail two copies of your
application to her at Jamestowne Society, POB 6845,
Richmond, Virginia 23230. The lifetime membership fee for new members is $400.
Members may submit supplemental applications on additional ancestors with a fee
of $125 for each submitted.
The following criteria are used to
determine whether an early settler may be included as a qualifying ancestor for
purposes of membership in the Jamestowne Society. The
individual (1) was a stockholder in the London Company or the Virginia Company;
(2) owned land on Jamestown Island or lived on the Island prior to 1700 (owning
land in a neighboring area or neighboring county does NOT of itself qualify an
individual; (3) was a resident in Virginia at the time of the 1624/25 Muster; or (4) served as Governor, Secretary of State,
Treasurer, Attorney General, Clerk of the General Court, Member of the Council
or House of Burgesses prior to 1700; these persons shall be conclusively
presumed to have had their domiciles on Jamestown Island during their terms of
office.
The Jamestowne
Society will consider adding an individual as a qualifying ancestor upon
receipt of a completed application for membership, accompanied by acceptable
proof of the ancestor's service in any one of the above mentioned categories.
The proof must be in the form of copies of primary source (original record)
documents, such as court records, wills, census records, or the like, that
conclusively establish the individual's eligibility as a qualifying ancestor.
Not all early Virginians who might meet
one of the above criteria are in the Jamestowne Society's
roster of qualifying ancestors. If we believe descent cannot be proven from an
individual, we may omit him or her to prevent people from applying through this
line and subsequently being rejected. Likewise, some early settlers who were on
our list in the past have been removed because new evidence either disqualifies
them outright or we believe that successfully proving their line would be
extremely unlikely.
Membership
Application Information
Potential Supplementals
in the future:
* John Catlett (right
family, may be the wrong John Catlett: there are multiple in family)
* Sir
William Lovelace, II (easy – just apply, info in initial application)
* James
Aucher (relatively easy: info from first application
and AP&P)
* Richard
Bennett
* Richard
Cocke
* Thomas
Harris, Captain
* Francis
Milner, Captain
* Thomas
Milner, Colonel
* Thomas
Ligon, Colonel
* Henry
Lee, Dr.
Contacts:
Anne
Stokes Moore: willing to sponsor, maryannex2@aol.com (helpful, in Kentucky),
William Carrell, II: wclonlisk@earthlink.net (helpful, in
Kentucky),
Phyllis Kinzle:
fccjamestownmembership@gmail.com,
Michael Phelps, Governor, Northern California
Company, phelps@alumni.princeton.edu
The softlinks are
to documentation for each generation on domain www.teamjennings.net
(for password access
of the links below, please contact Bill Jennings: bill@teamjennings.net)