Document Archive

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Constitution & Bylaws

Title	Published	Link
Extracts from Initial OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	1897	View
OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	10-Apr-1900	View
OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	Nov-1906	View
New York Society OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	01-Nov-1906	View
Connecticut Society OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	Jun-1907	View
OFPA Constitution & Bylaws	Sep-1958	View

Registers

Title	Published	Link
OFPA Register 1902	1902	View
List of officers and members of the New York Society	15-Nov-1907	View
OFPA Register: 1911; Rev. and completed to May 13, 1911	1911	View

Speeches, Addresses and Events

Title	Published	Link
The date of the settlement of the colony of New York; an address by George Rogers Howell before the New York Society of the OFPA	18-Mar-1897	View
The battle of Lexington as looked at in London before Chief-Justice Mansfield and a jury in the trial of John Horne, esq., for libel on the British government;	13-May-1897	View
Why remember the fathers : an address at a meeting of the Connecticut Society of the OFPA by the Rev. John Gaylord Davenport, D.D.	06-Aug-1898	View
Stephen Decatur and the suppression of piracy in the Mediterranean; an address by Charles Henry Smith, LL.D. before the Connecticut society of the OFPA	19-Apr-1900	View
A forgotten Connecticut patriot : an address by Col. Edward Everett Sill before the Connecticut Society of the OFPA	20-Sep-1900	View
James Gates Percival and his friends; an address by Frederick Hull Cogswell, Esq. before the Connecticut Society of the OFPA	19-Apr-1902	View
Anti-slavery before Garrison; an address at a meeting of the Connecticut society of the OFPA	19-Sep-1902	View
George Clinton : some of his colonial, revolutionary and post-revolutionary services; An address by Colonel Ralph Earl Prime delivered before the New York socie	15-Dec-1902	View
Washington--Lincoln and Grant; an address by General James Grant Wilson delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	06-Apr-1903	View
Early New York; an address by Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt delivered before the New York society of the OFPA	15-Jan-1904	View
Thomas Hooker, the first American Democrat an address by Walter Seth Logan, delivered before the New York society of the OFPA	19-Feb-1904	View
Early Long Island; an address by Hon. William Winton Goodrich delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	16-Mar-1904	View
Banquet Addresses at the Eighth Annual Banquet of the New York society of the OFPA	13-May-1904	View
The Philippines and the Filipinos : an address by Brig.-General Frederick Dent Grant, delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	10-Dec-1904	View
Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days; an address by Herman Vandenburg Ames Ph. D. before the Pennsylvania Society of the OFPA	14-Jan-1905	View
Some social theories of the Revolution, our present day retrogressions, the steps back; an address by Theodore Gilman, Esq., delivered before the New York Socie	31-Jan-1905	View
The Friendly Relations of the Indians and Early Dutch Settlers of the Upper Hudson; an address by Rev. Dr. Edward Payson Johnson before the Connecticut Society	31-Jan-1906	View
Distinctive traits of a Dutchman an address by Col. John W. Vrooman delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	23-Feb-1906	View
Some municipal problems that vexed the founders; an address by Rev. William Reed Eastman, delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	14-Dec-1906	View
A vanished race of aboriginal founders; an address by Brig. General Henry Stuart Turrill ... delivered before the New York society of the OFPA	14-Feb-1907	View
The Hudson Valley in the Revolution a lecture by Francis Whiting Halsey before the New York Society of the OFPA	13-Dec-1907	View
Publications of the New York Society of the OFPA No.5-20 (1904-07) [Includes many of items above]	1908	View
Proceedings on the dedication of the tablet erected by the New York Society of the OFPA, on the site of Fort Amsterdam, at the US Custom House, NYC	29-Sep-1909	View
Medicine in the colonies; a paper presented by William Scott Wadsworth, M.D. before the Pennsylvania Society of the OFPA	14-Jan-1910	View
The origin, rise and downfall of the state of Franklin, under her first and only governor, John Sevier... an address by William Edward Fitch...delivered before	11-Mar-1910	View
Some aspects of the Constitution. Charta maxima lux liberatis preclara; An address by Joseph Culbertson Clayton, Esq., delivered before the New York Society of	14-Dec-1910	View
The Rev. Jonas Clark, Pastor at Lexington, Leader in revolutionary thought; an address by Theodore Gilman, Esq., delivered before the New York Society of the OF	19-Oct-1911	View
The founders of America an address by Winchester Fitch ... delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	10-Jan-1912	View
The Huguenots as founders and patriots; an address by Theodore Gilman, Esq., delivered before the New York Society of the OFPA	27-Mar-1913	View
The first founders in America, with facts to prove that Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony was not lost. By William Edward Fitch, delivered before the New York So	29-Oct-1913	View
The league of the Iroquois; an address by Rev. Edward Payson Johnson, D.D. before the New York society of the OFPA	16-Feb-1914	View
Publications of the New York Society of the OFPA No.21-36 (1908-14) [Includes many of items above]	1914	View
The birth of our flag, and flag etiquette; an address by Louis Barcroft Runk delivered before the Pennsylvania Society of the OFPA	02-Nov-1920	View

Other Publications

Title	Published	Link
Some neglected history of North Carolina, being an account of the revolution of the regulators and of the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American R	1914	View
Vital records of New Haven (Conn.), 1649-1850 by the Connecticut Society of the OFPA	1917	View
An account of the life and military services of Zibeon Hooker by Clarence Augustus Wiswall (Mass. OFPA Associate)	1918	View
Massachusetts and her Royal charter granted March 4, 1628-29 -- Published by Mass. Society OFPA	1924	View
Vital Records of Saybrook, Connecticut 1647-1834 by the Conn. Society of the OFPA and Conn. Historical Society	1952	View
Checklist of the Founder Ancestors of the Present and Former Members of the OFPA	1963	View