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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2026
DESCRIPTION:On June 4\, 2026\, members and guests attended the Order’s 115th annual meeting\, held at the 3 West Club in midtown Manhattan. The meeting featured the life and times of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett\, the Dame of The Manor of Greenwich. \nElizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett’s colorful life began at Groton Manor\, Suffolk County\, England in 1610\, and ended in 1673 at the Bowne House\, home of her daughter Hannah Feake Bowne in Flushing\, New York. The intervening 63 years of Elizabeth’s controversial life were as storied as any modern soap opera. Anya Seton described Elizabeth in her 1958 historical novel entitled “The Winthrop Woman” as independent woman unmatched in courage and vitality. Another author states: “Elizabeth’s reputation has not fared well”\, but history has proven that otherwise. \nElizabeth was born to the sister of John Winthrop\, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony\, and first defied convention in 1629 by marrying her ill fated cousin\, Henry Winthrop only to lose her young husband a year later in a drowning accident. The sudden loss placed Elizabeth and her baby Martha\, under the guardianship of her uncle/father-in-law. \nElizabeth and her baby sailed on the “Lyon” to Massachusetts in 1631\, where by 1632 she found herself married off to a wealthy landowner named Lt. Robert Feake\, in a union arranged by her uncle-father-in-law. The Feakes removed to what would become Greenwich Connecticut where they bought land in 1640 including Elizabeth’s Neck purchased in her own name. They had five children\, Elizabeth (born 1633)\, Hannah (born 1637)\, John (born 1639)\, Robert (born 1642) and Sarah (born before 1647). \nIn 1642\, the Dutch claimed Greenwich and\, fearful of not being protected by the New Haven Colony\, the English settlers agreed to become part of the colony of New Netherland. This gave the Feakes and their partner\, Captain Daniel Patrick the opportunity to turn Greenwich into a “manor” making them “patroons of the manor”. During this time\, Lt. Feake began to suffer from mental illness and Elizabeth had to become co-administrator of the new manor. The act of submission to the Dutch\, dated April 9\, 1642\, was signed by Capt. Daniel Patrick and by Elizabeth Feake. By 1647\, Lt. Feake had abandoned the family and sailed back to England\, leaving Elizabeth alone to take care of her six children. According to Dutch law\, this made Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake free to remarry if she chose to do so. Greenwich officially remained a part of the Dutch colony until 1650. \nBy 1648\, Elizabeth was involved with William Hallett\, and they were officially married in a service officiated by her cousin John Winthrop\, Jr. in 1650. The Halletts had two children. William (born c. 1648) and Samuel (born c. 1650). The circumstances of the abandonment and Dutch laws regarding remarriage made life difficult for the Halletts to remain in the New Haven/Massachusetts Bay Colony so they removed to what is now Flushing\, New York within the colony of Nieuw Amsterdam where they settled in what became known as Hallett’s Cove. \nElizabeth died in 1673\, at 63 years of age. Her spirit and perseverance was an inspiration to many generations of her descendants and to lovers of history. The fascinating story of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett has been turned into a PBS film and three books\, the first of which was the international best seller by Anya Seaton\, (1904-1990)\, entitled The Winthrop Woman\, published in 1958. This was followed by An Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665 released in 2012. The third book is the recently published Elizabeth Fones Winthrop and the Great Puritan Migration—a True Story of Trouble\, Misfortune\, and Perseverance in England\, New England and New Netherlands\, by William S. Stob. \nElizabeth’s house (The Manor of Greenwich) still exists in Greenwich\, Connecticut. Preserved by the Greenwich Point Conservancy\, it forms part of a private home in Greenwich Point\, containing what remains of what was Elizabeth’s vast property on the water in Greenwich Point. The wing which encompasses the original 17th c. structure is open to the public once a year. Original deeds exist which show purchases of additional land from native American tribes\, forming a vast holding acquired in a series of transactions. The records show the names of the respective native Americans\, and their marks. \nOur speakers for the evening included: \n\nRosemary Vietor\, the vice president of the board of trustees of the Bowne House Historical Society\, and a descendant of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett.\nMissy Wolfe\, an author\, an historian\, and also a descendant. She is the author of Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America\, a biography of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett\, which received the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.\nCharlotte Jackson\, a Bowne House trustee and its archivist. She spoke about the final days of Elizabeth Hallett at the Bowne House\, the home of Elizabeth’s daughter Hannah and her husband John Bowne\, located in Flushing\, Queens\, N.Y.\, which is now open to the public.\n\nThe Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award for 2026 was accepted on behalf of the Greenwich Point Conservancy by Christopher P. Franco\, the Chairman of the board. \nAfter the lecture program\, the members and guest enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on the club’s terrace overlooking the Rockefeller Center rooftop gardens and Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. At the ticketed dinner\, Christopher P. Franco of The Greenwich Point Conservancy\, gave a talk on the restoration of the Feake Ferris House in Greenwich. \nPresident Leighton Coleman presents the Timothy Field Beard award to Chris Franco of the Greenwich Point Conservancy\n  \nMissy Wolfe addresses the meeting\n  \nAttendees enjoy the reception overlooking Midtown Manhattan\n  \nRachel and Chris Franco with Missy and Scott Wolfe overlooking St. Patrick’s Cathedral\n  \nPresident Coleman flanked by new members Jeff Murrie (L) and Frank Spano (R)\n  \nChris Franco addresses the ticketed dinner after the reception\n  \nAttendees enjoy a ticketed dinner following the meeting and reception\n 
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2025
DESCRIPTION:Members attended the Order’s 114th annual meeting\, held at the 3 West Club in midtown Manhattan. The meeting was devoted to exploring the Seigneuries of New France\, and our speaker was John Petrie\, OBE\, who represents two 17th century Canadian Seigneuries\, both new to the order: \n1. Michel Messier\, the Sieur de St. Michel (1640–1725) whose Seigneurie was granted in 1668.\n2. Mathieu Amyot de Villeneuve\, the Sieur de Bonsecours (1627/9–1688) whose Seigneurie was granted in 1672. \nJohn Petrie\nMr. Petrie is Windsor Herald at the College of Arms\, which is the official heraldic authority for most of the Commonwealth realms. He runs an independent heraldic and genealogical practice acting for private clients and organizations wishing to obtain new coats of arms or establish a right to existing arms and crests. He and his staff undertake heraldic and genealogical research for a wide variety of clients in the College’s historic records and elsewhere\, including in Canada and the United States\, and they specialize in cases dealing with the succession of British dignities and noble titles. He\, along with fellow heralds\, also participate in great ceremonies of state. \nMr. Petrie is an adviser to the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda and volunteer for the Order of St. John (also known as the St. John Ambulance)\, for which he serves as Director of Ceremonies in Wales. Mr. Petrie was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for services to Antigua and Barbuda and is a Commander of the Order of St. John (CStJ) in 2023. He is also a member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey\, as well as being a Liveryman of the Drapers’ Company and a Freeman of the International Bankers’ Company. His interests lie in late medieval history and genealogy\, the European colonization of North America and the American Revolutionary War. \nThe winner of the Timothy Field Beard award was announced at the meeting. Sutherland McColley is retiring this year as the Genealogist for the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America. From organizing materials after the untimely death of our late president Timothy Field Beard\, to managing the enormous project of digitizing the extensive archive of applications\, he was always on hand to guide the board with his historic expertise\, wisdom\, and advice. \nBefore he became a major force in the world of Hereditary Societies\, Mr. McColley enjoyed an extensive artistic career\, managing art collections for major museums and private galleries including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington\, D.C. and M. Knoedler & Co. in New York City. He was Curator of Art at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers N.Y.\, as well as the Director of the Dulin Gallery of Art\, now the Knoxville Museum of Art. \nLater in life\, Mr. McColley became a much sought-after landscape and garden designer on Long Island and Connecticut\, and is considered the founding father of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons. He was also an original board member of the Hamptons Festival of Music. \nMr. McColley has received numerous accolades from\, among others\, the City of Knoxville\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nIn addition to being on the board of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America\, Mr. McColley is a member of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York\, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York\, and the Order of First Families of Virginia. He is also a member of the Pilgrims of the United States and the University Club of New York\, and a board member of the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2025/
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America held its 113th annual meeting at the 3 West Club in midtown Manhattan. Three new members were inducted at the lively meeting\, and the attendees enjoyed an informative talk\, with slides of historic Maryland manors\, by Frank Locke\, the Registrar of the National Society of Descendants of Lords of the Maryland Manors\, followed by a punch reception up on the 9th floor terrace overlooking St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the iconic rooftop gardens of Rockefeller Center. \nAnnouncement was made at the meeting that the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America will be merging with the National Society of Descendants of Lords of the Maryland Manors\, welcoming all of the Society’s current members as members of the Order. Additionally\, the Order will begin accepting applications for membership from descendants of the 17th-century Seigneuries of New France (now Canada). Formerly\, only the descendants of the Seigneurie of Alainville were eligible\, as the borders of the United States shifted after the War of 1812\, incorporating it into New York State. \nAt the seated dinner following the reception\, the Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award was presented (virtually) by Colonial Lords’ board member D. Brenton Simons\, OBE to Robert Charles Anderson\, FASG\, the Director of the Great Migration Study Project at American Ancestors / New England Historic Genealogical Society.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2024/
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2023
DESCRIPTION:The 112th annual meeting of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America was held at the 3 West Club. At the meeting\, Colonial Lords President\, Leighton Coleman presented The Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award to Henry C. Pitts\, the President of the Manor Conservancy\, in recognition of the conservancy’s dedication in the preservation of over 4\,000 acres of land that was once part of Maryland’s “My Lady’s Manor” for the continued benefit of the public and the enjoyment of future generations. \nis a non-for-profit organization that preserves over 4\,000 acres of land that was once part of Maryland’s My Lady’s Manor. In 1713\, Charles Calvert\, 3rd Lord Baltimore\, gave his fourth wife\, Margaret Charleton of Hexham\, the gift of 10\,000 acres in what is now Baltimore and Harford County. These 10\,000 acres\, known as My Lady’s Manor\, were eventually transferred from ownership of the Calvert Family and rule of the British Crown to the veterans of the Revolutionary War and to former tenants at auction. My Lady’s Manor is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is recognized for its continued identity as a rural\, agricultural\, and historical treasure. \nAfter the award ceremony and a lecture program on the storied history of My Lady’s Manor given by Henry Pitts\, the membership and guests attended a punch reception on the terrace that commands views of the rooftop gardens of Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s gothic spires. At the seated dinner\, which was held in the club’s library\, Henry Pitts related an amusing story about a rare 18th century mis-measurement in surveying My Lady’s Manor and its neighboring manor\, creating a “wedge” of 140 acres of unclaimed land\, that two enterprising 19th century farmers seized. The evening concluded with deep admiration of the dedication that the officers of The Manor Conservancy have in preserving the rural landscape of their community.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2023/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2022
DESCRIPTION:Stacy Schiff\nMembers attended the Order’s annual meeting\, held virtually via Zoom. Our featured manor this year was the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum\, and our guest Speaker was Carswell Rush Berlin\, noted expert on American Classical Furniture and Decorative Arts as well as a board member of the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum. \nThe Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award for Excellence was awarded to Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff\, author most recently of The Witches: Salem\, 1692\, and currently featured in the Ken Burns mini-series Benjamin Franklin\, airing on PBS.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2022/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2021
DESCRIPTION:Members attended the Order’s annual meeting\, featuring Lloyd Manor. Lloyd Manor of Lloyd Harbor\, Suffolk County\, New York was originally known as the Manor of Queens Village\, a 3\,000-acre provisioning plantation founded in 1660 on Lloyd’s Neck on the former ancestral lands of the Matinecock Nation. This property and surrounding area was purchased by Peter Wright\, Samuel Mayo\, and Reverend William Leverege in 1653 from Chief Mohannes\, also known as Assiapum/Assiapumor. \nNathaniel Sylvester\, Latimer Sampson\, and Thomas Hart later bought the land for £450. Nathaniel Sylvester\, Lord of Sylvester Manor on Long Island’s Shelter Island\, was the father of Grissel Sylvester\, the fiancée of Latimer Sampson\, his business partner. Sampson died shortly before they were to be married\, and left her his interest in the property. She then married James Lloyd and together they bought out the rest of the partners of the property. In 1685\, James Lloyd was granted “The Lordship of Queens Village” by Thomas Dongan\, the Governor of New York and the Second Earl of Limerick. \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nJames Lloyd and his wife Grissel never resided on the Manor of Queens Village\, but lived in Boston. Their son Henry Lloyd built the original manor house in 1711\, a red saltbox now located on the grounds of Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve. The second Lloyd house\, a white Georgian structure known as the Joseph Lloyd manor house\, was built between 1766 and 1767\, and is currently managed by Preservation Long Island. \nThe manor’s most famous resident was Jupiter Hammon (1711 – ca. 1806). Born into slavery\, he became the first African-American poet published in North America (1761)\, and a founder of African-American literature. \nThe Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon are available at the website of Preservation Long Island. \nLauren Brincat discussed Jupiter Hammon’s significance and how Joseph Lloyd Manor became a Literary Landmark. She is the curator of Preservation Long Island where she oversees a collection of over 3\,000 objects\, 185 cubic feet of archival materials\, and three historic houses. Lauren has worked in museums and historical societies for over a decade\, specializing in curation\, exhibition and program development\, and collections management. She has held positions at the Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society\, where she co-curated the redesigned Luce Center for the Study of American Culture. Lauren holds a B.A. in History and Anthropology from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in American Material Culture with a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware. \nAlexandra Parsons Wolfe\, Executive Director of Preservation Long Island\, will talk on the recent gift of a group of important early American portraits from descendants of the Nelson and Lloyd families of Boston and Long Island and how these will be contextualized with the storied history of the Joseph Lloyd Manor house. Preservation Long Island is a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding\, preserving\, and celebrating Long Island’s cultural heritage. Ms. Wolfe has a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation and a Bachelor’s from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Previously Alexandra Wolfe was the Executive Director of the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx\, New York and as an independent preservation consultant. \nDavid Hackett Fischer\, the winner of the 2021 Timothy Field Beard Award for Historical Excellence\, is the Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University and author of numerous award winning books: “Washington’s Crossing\,” which earned him his Pulitzer in 2005; “Champlain’s Dream”; “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America”; “Liberty and Freedom”; and “Fairness and Freedom.” Fischer received the 2006 Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute and In 2015 he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Fischer won the 1990 Carnegie Prize as Massachusetts Professor of the Year and the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is an honorary member of The Society of the Cincinnati\, and a member of the board of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor\, Maine. \n 
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2021/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2020
DESCRIPTION:Members attended the Order’s rescheduled annual meeting\, held via Zoom. The guest speaker was Mary Calvi\, Emmy Award winning television journalist and author of Dear George\, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love. The recipient of the Timothy Field Beard memorial award was Morrison Harris Heckscher\, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. \nVideo from CBS New York: Mary Calvi and Alex Denis Tour Philipse Manor\nVideo from CBS This Morning: Mary Calvi on ‘Sunday Morning’ on CBS \n“Love is said to be an involuntary passion\, and it is\, therefore\, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George Washington \nDid unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters\, witness accounts\, and journal entries\, Dear George\, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love\, New York heiress Mary Philipse\, the richest belle in Colonial America. \nFrom elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battlefields\, the novel creates breathtaking scenes and riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of greatness\, using the very words he spoke and wrote\, and his ravishing love\, whose outward beauty and refinement disguise a complex inner struggle. \nDear George\, Dear Mary reveals why George Washington had such bitter resentment toward the Brits\, established nearly two decades before the American Revolution\, and it unveils details of a deception long hidden from the world that led Mary Philipse to be named a traitor\, condemned to death and left with nothing. While that may sound like the end\, ultimately both Mary and George achieve what they always wanted. \n \nMary Calvi\, who holds a 1989 magna cum laude degree in broadcast journalism from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University\, is a ten-time Emmy award-winning journalist and a New York City television news anchor. Calvi spent years wondering about the Philipse heiress who lived in the grand manor in her hometown of Yonkers\, New York. Curiosity propelled Calvi to do extensive research that spanned several years and this debut novel is based on what she uncovered. Mary Calvi\, who is also First Lady of the City of Yonkers\, a board member of the Hudson River Museum. She has three children with her husband\, Mike Spano\, who was elected mayor in 2011. They reside in Yonkers\, New York. \nCharles Casimiro\, Philipse Manor State Historic Site Assistant\, will talk about the daily life and the care of the historic manor house. Philipse Manor Hall sits on a site originally inhabited by the Lenape Indians. In 1646\, Adriaen Van der Donck purchased this property and built a saw mill on the Nepperhan\, now Saw Mill\, River. Frederick Philipse I purchased the property in 1672 and built the oldest part of the Manor Hall ten years later. His grandson\, Frederick Philipse II\, expanded the building into an elegant country seat. Frederick Philipse III inherited the estate in 1752 and continued to embellish the house. The Manor servedas the seat of the Manor of Philipsborough until the American Revolution\, when the Loyalist Philipse family lost its propertyand position and left for England. The building became the Village Hall of Yonkers in 1868 and the first City Hall of Yonkers in 1872\, housing city government until 1911. In 1912\, the Manor Hall opened to the public as a museum. \nToday\, Philipse Manor Hall offers standards-based education programs that encourage students to analyze history using primary sources\, including place\, objects\, and photographs. Students of all ages use the Manor Hall and its rich history to develop an enthusiasm for the past and a greater understanding of important movements and turning points in history. \nMorrison Heckscher\nThe Board of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America congratulates Morrison Harris Heckscher\, the Curator Emeritus of The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, as the of the 2020 Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award for Excellence. Mr. Heckscher served as The Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of The American Wing from 2001–2014 and enjoyed a 48 year distinguished curatorial career at the Metropolitan Museum. \nMr. Heckscher joined the Museum in 1966 as a Chester Dale Fellow in the Prints Department. From 1968 to 1978\, he was an Assistant Curator\, Associate Curator\, and Curator in The American Wing; from 1978 to 1998\, he was Curator of American Decorative Arts. In 1998\, he was appointed the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts\, and assumed chairmanship of The American Wing in 2001. As chairman\, he conceived and initiated the redesign and reinstallation of the entire Wing. He became Curator Emeritus of The American Wing on July 1 2014. \nMr. Heckscher’s list of important exhibitions include: The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt (1986)\, American Rococo: Elegance in Ornament\, 1750–1775 (with Leslie Greene Bowman\, 1992)\, The Architecture of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995); Central Park—A Sesquicentennial Celebration (2003)\, and John Townsend\, Newport Cabinetmaker (2005). \nOf interest to the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America\, Mr. Heckscher helped the Metropolitan Museum acquire noteworthy examples of American furniture\, such as a mahogany chest-on-chest made in 1778 by Thomas Townsend of Newport\, Rhode Island for the Gardiner family of Long Island\, and a carved mahogany armchair made around 1765 by Thomas Affleck of Philadelphia for John Penn\, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2019
DESCRIPTION:On May 30th\, the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America held its 108th annual meeting at the townhouse headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. In attendance were Mrs. M. P. Naud\, President of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York; Ms. Alexandra Hoyle of The Social Register Association; Mrs. Rosemary Vietor\, President of the Bowne House; Mr. John W. Ingraham\, Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York; Mr. Robert A. Naud\, President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York; and Ms. Deborah Spaeder McWilliams\, Executive Director of the Colonial Dames of America. \nAfter the induction of our newest member\, Robb Aley Allan\, representing the Manor of Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard created by his ancestor Thomas Mayhew\, the program featured a lecture on the storied history of the Manor of Saint George on Long Island\, presented by Barbara Russell\, the historian of the town of Brookhaven. This enormous manor\, and in particular its 18th-century châtelaine\, Anna Smith Strong (a Revolutionary War spy) were recently made internationally famous by the television series\, Turn. The Manor of Saint George was a vast manorial tract of 60\,000 acres bordered by Long Island Sound to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Its founder\, Colonel William “Tangier” Smith\, a shrewd and dynamic character and his wife\, Madame Martha Tunstall Smith were the progenitors of the Tangier Smith family. Ms. Russell discussed Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge’s 1780 raid on Fort St. George; the still-existing properties of the Longwood Estate and Manor of Saint George; the brave great-granddaughter Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong\, the revolutionary patriot; the name change from Smith’s Neck to Strong’s Neck\, and the important donation of property in Mastic to the Poosepatuck Indian Tribe. \nMr. Michael J. Grillo\, the Living Historian and Museum Educator at the Van Cortlandt House Museum\, was given the Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award\, in recognition of his nineteen years of dedication\, bringing the past to life via his hand-tailored period costumes. Mr. Grillo wore the uniform of a General of The Back Watch (42nd Regiment of Foot). \nAttendees then gathered in the downstairs dining room overlooking the walled terrace garden for a punch reception hosted by Mrs. M. P. Naud and Mrs. Caroline Brown\, fellow officers of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. Later\, a buffet dinner was served in the upstairs Withdrawing Room to honor the speaker and the 2019 award recipient.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2019/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180531T180000
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2018
DESCRIPTION:On May 31st 2018\, the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors In America met at the historic town house of The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York to hear a program on the Livingstons and Livingston Manor by Geoff Benton\, author\, historian and curator\, who explored how Robert Livingston\, an immigrant from Scotland\, rapidly became one of the largest land holders in the colony of New York\, and how his descendants became the most powerful family in the colony and as well as leaders in the fight for American independence. In their rise\, the Livingstons married and feuded with many prominent families in the colony including the Van Rensselaers\, the Schuylers\, the Jays and the Morris family. Geoff also discussed how successive generations of the Livingstons created some of the most architectural significant homes on the Hudson River including Clermont\, the forefather of all the Hudson Valley great estates. \nThe 2018 recipient of The Timothy Field Beard Memorial Award for Excellence was the noted archaeologist\, author and filmmaker Dr. Gaynell Stone\, the executive director of the Suffolk County Archaeological Association\, for her in-depth 6 two hours long DVD set entitled “The Manors of Long Island” which documents 13 manors on New York’s Long Island and environs. \n 
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2018/
LOCATION:The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New Yor
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170602
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2017
DESCRIPTION:The Order of Colonial Lords of The Manor in America held its Annual Meeting\, Reception\, and Dinner on Thursday\, June 2\, 2017 at The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York’s headquarters at 215 East 71st Street\, New York City. \nIn addition to researching seventeenth-century colonial manors\, The Order of Colonial Lords of The Manor in America also supports historic preservation. \nThe 2017 Guest Speaker was architectural historian Michael W. Rayhill\, who gave a presentation entitled the “Colonnade Row; Birth of the Gilded Age”\, on the forgotten history of a remarkable set of neo-classical town houses located at present-day Lafayette Street in New York City where several founding families of the Gilded Age resided. Rayhill detailed how they all came to be neighbours on Colonnade Row and eventually intertwined through marriages. \nMr. Rayhill’s slides illustrated this unique period of New York City’s architectural history by showing what the streetscape and surrounding neighbourhood looked like at the time\, and poignantly identified many magnificent buildings that\, sadly\, have since been demolished. \nAfter Mr. Rayhill’s fascinating lecture\, Mr. Lawrence Pistell\, President of the Order\, inducted two new members: Mrs. William M. Evarts (formerly Helen R. Coleman) a descendent of Dr. Luke Barber of Warburton Manor\, once located on the shore of Piscataway Bay\, Maryland\, and Mr. Charles Felix\, a descendant of Frederick Philipse\, of the Manor of Philipseborough\, which was once located in parts of Westchester and Bronx in New York. \nFollowing the induction\, the members and their guests attended a lively punch reception hosted by The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York in their beautiful reception room and outdoor terrace at East 71st Street\, followed by a candlelight dinner at the same address. Among the guests were Laura Carpenter Myers\, Director of the Van Cortlandt House Museum; Mr. John Krawcunuk\, Executive Diretor of Historic House Trust; and Mr. William P. Johns\, former Director of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. \nThe dinner\, which included toasts\, stories\, and merriment\, ended at 9:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.coloniallords.org/event/annual-meeting-2017/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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