Hereditary Societies Listed
by Chronology of Years Founded
1637 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
of Massachusetts
1643 Ancient Heraldic and
Chivalric Order of Albion
1716 National Order of the Knights
of the Golden Horseshoe
1729 Welsh Society of Philadelphia
1729 Saint Andrew's Society of Charleston
1747 Saint Andrew's Society of Philadelphia
1756 Saint Andrew's Society of the State
of New York
1760 Saint Andrew's Society of Washington,
D.C.
1770 Saint George's Society of New York
1771 Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint
Patrick of Philadelphia
1772 Society of the Sons of Saint George
of Philadelphia
1783 Society of the Cincinnati
1783 Society of the Friendly
Sons of Saint Patrick of the City of New York
1790
Veteran Corps of Artillery State
of New York
1805 New England Society in the City of
New York
1814 Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland
1816 La Société
Française de Bienfaisance
1826 Military Society of the War of 1812
1835 Saint David's Society of the State
of New York
1835 Saint Nicholas Society of the City
of New York
1847 Aztec Club of 1847
1850 Society of California
Pioneers
1854 General Society of the War of 1812
1863 Society of the Order of the Southern
Cross
1865 Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States
1865 Society of the Army of the Tennessee
1867 Sovereign Colonial Society Americans
of Royal Descent
1868 Morgan's Men Association
1876 General Society Sons of the Revolution
1881 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War
1883 Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans
of the Civil War
1883 Huguenot Society of America
1884 Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers
1885 Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War 1861-1865
1885 Holland Society of New York
1885 Huguenot Society of
South Carolina
1885 Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
1889 National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution
1889 Scotch-Irish Society of the United
States of America
1890 Colonial Order of the Crown
1890 Legion of Valor of the United States
of America
1890 Colonial Dames of America
1890 National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution
1890 Naval Order of the United States
1891 Daughters of the Republic of Texas
1891 National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America
1892 National Society United States
Daughters of 1812
1892 Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
1893 Sons of the Republic of Texas
1893 General Society of Colonial Wars
1894 Colonial Order of the Acorn
1894 Daughters of the Cincinnati
1894 Military Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States
1894 Royal Society of Saint George
1894 United Daughters of the Confederacy
1895
National Society Children of the American Revolution
1895 National Society of New England Women
1895
Order of Washington
1895 Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
1895 Society of Daughters of Holland
Dames
1895 Pioneer Association of the State of
Washington
1896 Order of Indian Wars of the United
States
1896 Sons of Confederate Veterans
1896 National Society Colonial Daughters
of the Seventeenth Century
1896 Order of the Founders and Patriots
of America
1896 Children of the Confederacy
1896 Hereditary Order of Descendants of
Colonial Governors
1897 General Society of Mayflower Descendants
1897 Minnesota Territorial Pioneers
1897 Pilgrim John Howland Society
1898 Order of the Crown in America
1898 National Society Daughters of Founders
and Patriots of America
1898 Baronial Order of Magna Charta
1899 Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United
States
1900 Military Order of the Carabao
1901 International Society Daughters of
Utah Pioneers
1901 Sons and Daughters of
Oregon
Pioneers
1902 Plantagenet Society
1903 Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
1903 Daughters of Hawaii
1903 Sons of Veterans Reserve
1905
Oklahoma
1889er Society
1905 Piscataqua Pioneers
1906 Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
1906 Alden Kindred of America
1907 Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration
of Independence
1908 Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers
1908 National Society Americans of Royal
Descent
1908 National Society Sons and Daughters
of the Pilgrims
1909 National Society Magna Charta Dames
1909 Swedish Colonial Society
1910 National Society of Old
Plymouth
Colony Descendants
1910 Society of the Ark
and Dove
1911 Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in
America
1912 Order of First Families of
Virginia
1912 National Society Daughters of the Union
1861-1865, Inc.
1913 Monticello Association
1914 Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign
Wars
1914 United Empire Loyalists' Association
of Canada
1915 National Society Colonial Dames XVII
Century
1916 Society of Indiana
Pioneers
1917 Louisiana Colonials
1919 Military Order of the World Wars
1920 National Society Daughters of the
British Empire in the USA
1920 Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian
Exiles
1920 Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington
1921 National Society Daughters of the American
Colonists
1921 National Society of the Dames of the
Court of Honor
1921 National Society Daughters of the Barons
of Runnemede
1922 Huguenot Society of the Founders of
Manakin in the Colony of Virginia
1924 Dutch Settlers Society of
Albany
1925
Georgia Salzburger Society
1927 Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers
of Newbury Massachusetts
1927 Sons of Spanish American War Veterans
1927 National Society Women Descendants
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.
1928 North American Manx Association
1929 Society of Descendants of Knights of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter
1931 Society of the Descendants of the Founders
of Hartford
1931 Society of Descendants of Knights of
the Garter
1932 National Society Daughters of Colonial
Wars
1932 Sons of the American Legion
1932 Somerset Chapter Magna Charta Barons
1932 Military Order of the Purple Heart
1933 Society of the Descendants of the Colonial
Clergy
1933 National Society Sons of Utah
Pioneers
1934 Children of the Republic of Texas
1934 Military Order of the Crusades
1934 Order of Daedalians
1936 Jamestowne Society
1936 Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
1938 National Society of the Lords of the
Maryland Manors
1938 Military Order of the Stars and Bars
1938 Russian Nobility Association in America
1939 National Society Children of the American
Colonists
1939 Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in
the United States of America
1941 Knights of the Order of
San Jacinto
1942
American Ex-Prisoners of War
1946 Governor William Bradford Compact
1950 Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons
& Daughters of the Kings of Britain
1951 National Huguenot Society
1954
National Society
of the Washington Family Descendants
1956 National Society of Sons of the American
Colonists
1958 Order of Lafayette
1962 Dutch Colonial Society
1962
National Society Southern Dames of America
1962 Flagon and Trencher
1963 Society of the Founders of the City
of New Orleans
1964 First Families of Ohio
1965 San Jacinto Descendants
1966 Hood's Texas Brigade Association
1967
Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817
1967
Soule Kindred of America
1967 Society of the Descendants of the
Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
1969 Los Californianos
1973 Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists
& Patriots American Revolution
1974 Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians
and Chirurgiens
1974 Descendants of Whaling Masters
1974
Thomas Rogers Society
1975
Son of a Witch
1975 National Guild of Saint Margaret of
Scotland
1976 Society of First Families of
South Carolina
1670-1700
1976 Society of the Descendants of Washington's
Army at Valley Forge
1976 United States Cavalry Association
1978 Elder William Brewster Society
1979 Canary Islands Descendants
Association
1980 National Society Descendants of Early
Quakers
1980 Society of Descendants of Ireland
1980 Society of Descendants of Scotland
1980 Society of Descendants of the
Conquest
1981 Veterans of the
Battle
of the Bulge
1981 Los Pobladores 200
1982 Descendants of Founders of
New Jersey
1982 Society of Kentucky
Pioneers
1982
Pilgrim Edward Doty Society
1983 Descendants of the Founders of Ancient
Windsor
1985 Hereditary Order of the First Families
of Massachusetts
1985 National Society Sons of Colonial
New England
1986 First Families of Georgia
1733-1797
1987 Descendants of Austin's
Old Three Hundred
1987 Associated Daughters of Early American
Witches
1987 Society of the Descendants of the Signers
of the Constitution
1988 Continental Society Daughters of Indian
Wars
1988 First Families of the Twin
Territories
1988 National Society Ladies of the
Thistle
1988 Order of Descendants of the Ancient
& Honorable Artillery Company
1989 Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
1990 National Order of the Blue and Gray
1990 Plymouth Hereditary Society
1990 Menorcan Cultural Society
1991
Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization
1991 Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
1991 Order of the First Families of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations
1991 Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters
1991 Sons and Daughters of the Province
and Republic of West Florida
1992 Order of First Families of North
Carolina
1992 Fuller Society
1993 Order of the First World War
1994 Sons and Daughters of the Colonial
and Antebellum Bench and Bar
1994
La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
1995 Order of the Second World War
1995 Presidential Families of America
1995
Society of Descendants of the Founders of the
New Haven
Colony
1996 Winthrop Society
1996
Noble
Society of Celts
1997 National Society Sons and Daughters
of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
1999 Order of the First Families of
Maryland
2000
Alamo
Defenders' Descendants Association
2000 Los Floridanos Society
2001
Order of
Descendants of Pirates and Privateers
2003
Order of the
First Families of Maine
2003 Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society
2003
Hereditary Order
of the Families of Presidents & First Ladies of America
2004 Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
2004 Guild of Colonial Artisans and
Tradesmen 1607-1783
2004 Hereditary Order of the Signers of the
Bush Declaration
2004 Order of First Families of Connecticut
1633-1662
2005 First Families of Kentucky
2005 Noble Company
of Saint Mary of Walsingham
2005 Registry of Famous and Infamous
Relatives in American Families
2005 Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society
2007 One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood
Royal
2007
National Society
of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.
2007 Bloodlines of Salem
2009 Hereditary Society Daughters of
Founding Fathers of America 1606-1656
2009 Order of the First Families of New
Hampshire 1622-1680
2009 American Descendants of the House of
Burgesses 1619-1699
2009 Descendants of the Honored at Rest in
Arlington National Cemetery
2009
First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley
2010 Order of First Families of Vermont
1609-1791
2010 National Society of Saints and
Sinners
2010 Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables
of Colonial & Antebellum America
2010 Hereditary Society of Teachers
2010 Virginia Huguenot Society
2011
Sons and
Daughters of World War II Veterans
2011
Order of Descendants of the Justiciars
2011 Society of the First Families of New
York
2012 Order of the Founders of North
America 1492-1692
2013 Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
2013
Sons and Daughters of Virginia
Founding Fathers
2013
Order of the Norman Conquest
2014
Order of Alba
2014 Descendants of Fossors
2014 National Society Children of 1812
2015
Order of
American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of
GB
2015
Descendants of
Cape Cod and the Islands
2015 Military Order of Agincourt
2016
Descendants of
Early Postmaster 1607-1900
2017 Order of the Monarchs of Rheims
2017
Order of
Medieval Women: Women of Consequence
2017
Descendants of
Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776
2017 Order of the House of Wessex
2018 Order of the Kings and Queens in the
Holy Lands
2018 Military Order of the Southern Cross
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