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Registration for Fall Meeting is Open!

Join us in beautiful Lancaster, Penn., for our Fall Meeting on October 13 and 14. We will have a Welcome Dinner (business casual dress) on Friday night at the host hotel, and then on Saturday, (casual attire) we will head…

Photos: Spring Meeting in Edenton, NC

Fifty DSDI members, spouses and guests enjoyed a wonderful weekend April 21-22 in Edenton, N.C., a place full of colonial and revolutionary history.

Photos: Fall Meeting in Southern Maryland

Our Fall meeting in Southern Maryland at the Solomons Inn Resort & Marina Sept. 23-25, 2022, was a delightful success with perfect autumn weather to explore the region. Fifty-six descendants and guests gathered for the weekend from eight states and…

Boy Scout Recognition

Past President Bruce Laubach presented DSDI certificates of recognition Oct. 9 to four Eagle Scouts from BSA Troop 103 of Williamsburg, Virginia. The Boy Scouts use the closing words of the Declaration of Independence when awarding Scouting’s highest honor the…

Commemorating Yorktown Day

DSDI members Andy Keller, Bruce Laubach, Anne Page and Thomas Page Nelson at the grave of Governor Thomas Nelson. On Oct. 19, 241 years ago, Thomas Nelson Jr., Signer of the Declaration of Independence and sitting Governor of Virginia, led…

DSDI Donates Historical Hart Family Portrait to Hopewell Museum

The Society has donated a portrait of Major John Polhemus, the husband of Susannah Hart, daughter of Deborah and John Hart, to the Hopewell Museum in New Jersey. The Hopewell Museum was delighted to receive this contribution to their collection…

Reenactment of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty” Speech

I was invited recently by St. John’s Church Foundation to attend at a private country manor the reenactment of Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty or give me death speech” from the Second Virginia Convention held at St. John’s Church…

The Harrison Family: Vincennes to the White House

By Shirley Hunter Smith, Ph.D | Second Vice President-General, DSDI The contributions and sacrifices made by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence are, of course, well-known, but less familiar are stories of descendants who carried on the founders’ legacy. …

Thinking about DSDI’s future

What a happy celebration as we met in Princeton in October for our Fall Meeting! Thanks to hostess Nancy Wark and her husband Ray, many members with families and friends enjoyed each other. We met to eat and drink, travel…

DSDI gathers in historic Princeton

DSDI gathers in historic Princeton As the old saying goes, “three is the charm.” After two previous plans were derailed by the pandemic, DSDI members enjoyed gathering in person Oct. 8-9, 2021 in Princeton, NJ for our fall meeting. Our…