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Mrs. Harry
Clark Boden, IV
(Marguerite du Pont de Villiers-Ortiz)
1907 - 1977
Marguerite du Pont de Villiers-Ortiz, the daughter of
Julien de Villiers-Ortiz and Alice Engénie du Pont, was
born on July 31, 1907 at "Valmy",
Greenville,
Delaware. Her education began at the
Ogontz
School and was completed at the
University
of Pennsylvania. She first married Forrester Holmes
Scott, with whom she had two children: Eve Hermine du Pont
Scott, and Zoe Zenger du Pont Scott. Her second marriage
was to Harry Clark Boden, IV and their child was Kip Kelso
Boden. Mrs. Boden died on
July 23, 1977
in Delaware.
Memberships
* Order of the Three Crusades 1096-1192 (former
President General)
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Honorary
President
General)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
(Honorary President General)
* Order of the Crown in America (former First Vice
President General)
* Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624 (former
Burgess from
Delaware)
* National Gavel Society (Founding Vice President;
Honorary President)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Hereditary Order Descendants of Colonial Governors
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former
Councilor of the
Delaware Society)
* Society of The Ark and The Dove
* Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
* National Huguenot Society (former Vice President of the
Delaware
Society)
* Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II
* National Society Dames of the Court of Honor
* National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former Advisor to
the Museum)
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812
* Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States
* Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
(former member of the
Executive Council)
* Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
* Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
* Swedish Colonial Society of Delaware (former Councilor)
* Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware (former President)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
* National Society of New England Women
* National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth
Century
* Society of the Founders of Norwich, Connecticut
* Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
* National Society Women Descendants of the Ancient and
Honorable
Artillery Company
* National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
(former Chaplain)
* National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
* Flagon and Trencher
The Hereditary Register of the United States of America, (member of the Editorial Committee, 1972,
1973 and 1974)
Chivalric
*
Most Venerable Order of the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem
(Associate
Officer)
Other Notes
As a philanthropist, benefactor, author and leader, Mrs.
Boden's gifts to the hereditary community and historic
preservation were substantial. She bequeathed
Mount Harmon Plantation, her sixteenth century
Georgian country estate, to the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. It was later transferred to Friends of Mount
Harmon, which currently oversees its preservation and
operation. The plantation began in 1651 as a land grant of
350 acres to Godfrey Harmon by Caecilius Calvert, the
second Lord Baltimore. The manor house, which has been
thoroughly restored, is furnished with American, English,
Irish and Scottish antiques dating from the 1760 - 1810
period. The estate, which is located on the Sassafras
River in Cecil County, Maryland, is now open to the
public.
Mrs.
Boden was an Honorary Life Member of the
Vineland,
New Jersey
Historical Society; a trustee of the Delaware Historical
Society; a Pilgrim Tercentenary Member of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society; and a Pennsylvania Patriot
of the Historical Foundation of Pennsylvania. She also
belonged to The Historical Society of Delaware; Cecil
County Historical Society; Kent County Historical Society;
The Maryland Historical Society; Cumberland County
Historical Society; Huguenot Historical Society of New
Paltz, New York; Historical Society of New York County;
Virginia Historical Society; The Historical Society of
Pennsylvania; Revolutionary War Bi-Centennial Resources
Committee for 1976; and Duck Creek Historical Society.
Mrs.
Boden also held memberships in The National Genealogical
Society; The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; Society
of Architectural Historians; Delaware Society for the
Preservation of Antiquities; Wilmington Society of the
Fine Arts; National Society of Arts and Letters,
Washington Chapter; Kenmore Association; Friends of
Winterthur; Friends of the American Museum in Britain; and
The National Trust for Historic Preservation. She served
as the Honorary Chairman of the British American Society
of America and La Foundation Internationale de Delaware.
She was also a member of the Executive Council of the
Friends of Lafayette and served as Vice President of the
Alliance Francaise of Wilmington.
In
addition to being a co-founder of the Governor William
Bradford Family Compact and a Duzine member of the Le
Fevre Family Association, she belonged to a number of
family associations including the Doane Family
Association; du Bois Family Association; Edward Bates
Family Association; and Governor Thomas Dudley Family
Association.
Mrs.
Boden was also a member of the Mt. Vernon Club of
Baltimore, Maryland; Rose Tree Hunt Club of Delaware;
Greenville Country Club; Wilmington Country Club; Club of
Colonial Dames and The Army Navy Club of Washington, D. C. |
