Associated Daughters of Early American Witches

[Dana Jean]

Just a public service announcement I find interesting and I may be alone.

This is an actual lineage society in America for women.

If you had a relative tried, imprisoned, executed, or accused of witchcraft prior to December 31, 1699 -- you are a recognized ancestor. Here is their web site and a list of recognized names of the above people. I have some last names there that are in my family tree so I'm going to do some research. I can't tell you how cool I think it would be to be recognized in this group.

Are you the ancestor of a persecuted "witch?"

Associated Daughters of Early American Witches

Here are some other organizations you can become members of through ancestors or career. Like the National League of American Pen Writers. skimom and all you other published women or women who work in the listed writing type careers.

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[GNTLGNT]

...obviously I'm the wrong gender but this is fascinating....

 

[Dana Jean]

There are some guys named on the ancestor list as witches too, so I bet they have a men's chapter, just like Sons of the American Revolution.

The only person in my tree that I see connected to this group is a Witchfinder General, and not even sure if he is or isn't an ancestor. I haven't established the lineage. He himself never married and there are no children listed for him, but he did have siblings and I have found a trail through a brother, but it is strictly speculation at this point. I wonder if a witch society would recognize the relatives of the douchebag who was the one wiping them out?

Seriously, I have a line of hillbillies who I'm positive prayed to toads and surely one of them got stoned to death. jk.

I'll give a better link to the organizations. The one I gave above was where you buy their recognition pins.

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Those Colonial Dames of the 17th Century are snooty broads. You can only be one of them by invitation only.

 

[Dana Jean]

My sister and I are proving our Daughters of the American Revolution status. My sister has done this already. She has her national number and will be inducted into her local chapter in October.

Now, I could piggyback off the same patriot, but, I wanted to prove another line. So, my application and proof is now in the hands of the genealogists in Washington, D.C. and keeping my fingers crossed we have everything they need to prove our line of descent to this guy. We have like 11 more we can do -- and the DAR organization likes to prove as many as they can for national records.

Anyway, once my guy gets approved, then I will add her guy to my list and she will add my guy to her list, and we are going to pick another line to follow. Just an ongoing thing for fun.

So, I wanted to do something special for my sister when she gets inducted into her chapter. Soooo, I wrote my congressman and paid to have an American flag flown over the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to commemorate her induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution through our patriot. I just got it today! It comes with this really nice certificate with all the information I gave about our Patriot and the state he fought for -- and it's beautiful! I'm so excited. Now, I need to keep it a secret, but I'm just dying to show her!

 

[Spideyman]

My sister and I are proving our Daughters of the American Revolution status. My sister has done this already. She has her national number and will be inducted into her local chapter in October.

Now, I could piggyback off the same patriot, but, I wanted to prove another line. So, my application and proof is now in the hands of the genealogists in Washington, D.C. and keeping my fingers crossed we have everything they need to prove our line of descent to this guy. We have like 11 more we can do -- and the DAR organization likes to prove as many as they can for national records.

Anyway, once my guy gets approved, then I will add her guy to my list and she will add my guy to her list, and we are going to pick another line to follow. Just an ongoing thing for fun.

So, I wanted to do something special for my sister when she gets inducted into her chapter. Soooo, I wrote my congressman and paid to have an American flag flown over the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to commemorate her induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution through our patriot. I just got it today! It comes with this really nice certificate with all the information I gave about our Patriot and the state he fought for -- and it's beautiful! I'm so excited. Now, I need to keep it a secret, but I'm just dying to show her!

 

[Scratch]

Even though I know these women were simply victims of greedy land grabbing bastards who called themselves Christian I would never the less have found their descendants wickedly hot in my youth because... witches. I mean come on. I love bad girls. I found three last names in my tree, Powell, Fowler, and Wilson but the chances are slim. Nearly all of mine are southern through Virginia.

 

[skimom2]

My sister and I are proving our Daughters of the American Revolution status. My sister has done this already. She has her national number and will be inducted into her local chapter in October.

Now, I could piggyback off the same patriot, but, I wanted to prove another line. So, my application and proof is now in the hands of the genealogists in Washington, D.C. and keeping my fingers crossed we have everything they need to prove our line of descent to this guy. We have like 11 more we can do -- and the DAR organization likes to prove as many as they can for national records.

Anyway, once my guy gets approved, then I will add her guy to my list and she will add my guy to her list, and we are going to pick another line to follow. Just an ongoing thing for fun.

So, I wanted to do something special for my sister when she gets inducted into her chapter. Soooo, I wrote my congressman and paid to have an American flag flown over the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to commemorate her induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution through our patriot. I just got it today! It comes with this really nice certificate with all the information I gave about our Patriot and the state he fought for -- and it's beautiful! I'm so excited. Now, I need to keep it a secret, but I'm just dying to show her!

This is interesting! I wonder if a descendant of a Hessian who came over to fight against the Americans but decided he liked it here and changed sides would be considered?

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Thanks so much for posting about this subject which is dear to my heart! My favorite childhood book was Mystery of the Witches' Bridge by Barbee Oliver Carleton, based on the author's own family experience, how troubles her ancestors underwent in the late 1600s affected the family for nearly three hundred years. I read this book at least eight times and traveled across the country to visit the author and see the locations on three separate occasions, also I decorated my kitchen with paintings which remind me of the book and the visits. The author kissing me in my avatar, Ray Bradbury, descends from an accused witch whose friends hid her to save her from execution. Since my family goes back at least as far as the Mayflower and considering my own life experiences, I would be astonished if not crushed not to have at least one ancestor accused of witchcraft.

Common as this was back in the day, the makers of the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates had only ONE subject who had an ancestor tried and executed as a witch, but that was in Germany so would not qualify as an early American witch. Actor Neil Patrick Harris Learns of His Germanna Roots on PBS | Germanna Foundation

 

[Dana Jean]

This is interesting! I wonder if a descendant of a Hessian who came over to fight against the Americans but decided he liked it here and changed sides would be considered?

Yes! As long as you can prove he fought for or contributed to in some way, The American Revolution, then you can be a DAR. I mentioned in another thread that a woman in my sister's chapter had relatives in Canada. One of them stood in his village square and made speeches in favor of American independence. Somehow they found documentation of that and her lineage to him and she got to be a Dar. People didn't have to fight, they could have aided with food, shelter, or taxes to the cause. If you can find the paper trail and prove it, you're in.

 

[skimom2]

Yes! As long as you can prove he fought for or contributed to in some way, The American Revolution, then you can be a DAR. I mentioned in another thread that a woman in my sister's chapter had relatives in Canada. One of them stood in his village square and made speeches in favor of American independence. Somehow they found documentation of that and her lineage to him and she got to be a Dar. People didn't have to fight, they could have aided with food, shelter, or taxes to the cause. If you can find the paper trail and prove it, you're in.

I'll have to look at what my mom has dug up again. I remember seeing an official paper that stated my ancestor was a deserter from the British side, but can't remember if there was documentation for the rest. Very interesting!

 

[Dana Jean]

I'll have to look at what my mom has dug up again. I remember seeing an official paper that stated my ancestor was a deserter from the British side, but can't remember if there was documentation for the rest. Very interesting!

The patriot that we have verified with DAR we think was a hired german mercenary or Hessian.

 

[skimom2]

The patriot that we have verified with DAR we think was a hired german mercenary or Hessian.

Yes! Mine, too!

 

[Dana Jean]

Yes! Mine, too!

We can't prove ours. We have his Revolution record, but it doesn't say on there he was from that group, but it just makes sense that he would be. Coming to America to fight for the British and then deciding to stay.

 

[Scratch]

Thanks so much for posting about this subject which is dear to my heart! My favorite childhood book was Mystery of the Witches' Bridge by Barbee Oliver Carleton, based on the author's own family experience, how troubles her ancestors underwent in the late 1600s affected the family for nearly three hundred years.

Woah. I haven't thought about this book since I was a kid. I got it out of the back of a Weekly Reader at school. Remember those? We could order their selection every week and I got a couple every time. A good story for sure. Kids today need something similar. Yet another thing we have in common Cori.

I have several ancestors I can trace to revolutionary war status through birth records. Is that all it takes? One of them, a Chilcoat, died on a prison ship in New York harbor after Washington was defeated in his first battle there.

 

[Dana Jean]

Woah. I haven't thought about this book since I was a kid. I got it out of the back of a Weekly Reader at school. Remember those? We could order their selection every week and I got a couple every time. A good story for sure. Kids today need something similar. Yet another thing we have in common Cori.

I have several ancestors I can trace to revolutionary war status through birth records. Is that all it takes? One of them, a Chilcoat, died on a prison ship in New York harbor after Washington was defeated in his first battle there.

Birth records are great! Death, wills, deeds, census, govt. documents, baptism records -- they will use all sorts of things to establish a line. But if there is any doubt, they will not accept the lineage. So yes, you could be a Son of the American Revolution.

 

[Scratch]

Hmmm. Mostly it is traced through the census records of children listed. I did my geneology before the internet. There are some court records on some. Not sure what they would call doubt. Maybe I will try it some day.

 

[Dana Jean]

Hmmm. Mostly it is traced through the census records of children listed. I did my geneology before the internet. There are some court records on some. Not sure what they would call doubt. Maybe I will try it some day.

You would be amazed at what the Washington DC genealogists can find and have access to. Plus, the organization, if you contact them, have chapter presidents that will help you find most of what you need. In fact, for the patriot I am now trying to prove, I ONLY had to order her a copy of my grandparents death certificates, -- she found all the other old stuff through their record collections.

 

[Dana Jean]

This was the very first book I picked out and bought through a Scholastic book order when I was little. I still have it.

 

[Scratch]

This was my favorite. Funny how we all liked the scary stuff, even back then.

I have waked past the DAR on my way to the Lincoln memorial and thought about going inside but did not. I'm hardly a daughter afterall. Still it would have been interesting. My family isn't always as adventurous as I am though.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Woah. I haven't thought about this book since I was a kid. I got it out of the back of a Weekly Reader at school. Remember those? We could order their selection every week and I got a couple every time. A good story for sure. Kids today need something similar. Yet another thing we have in common Cori.

I have several ancestors I can trace to revolutionary war status through birth records. Is that all it takes? One of them, a Chilcoat, died on a prison ship in New York harbor after Washington was defeated in his first battle there.

Yeah, I just leafed through Mystery of the Witches' Bridge again after dreaming about it. On our first visit, Mrs. Carleton told me of working on a sequel. I later asked and she said she dropped work on it after it was rejected. I don't know how much of the sequel may have been written, but (not a spoiler for the unpublished sequel but for those who haven't read the original book)

Spoiler

the sequel concerned the wedding of Dan's Uncle Julian Pride to Ann Bishop Cole. In my dream I wondered if their children would take precedence over Dan in inheriting Pride's Point. Drove myself crazy over it till I had to get the book and leaf through it, and find on page 38, sure enough, Julian was the older son, and his children would be in direct line for inheritance before Dan no matter how much younger they were than Dan. Considering, though, that Julian and Ann would never have gotten together if not for Dan and that he was Ann's children's best friend, hopefully property distribution was handled fairly.

Can you believe having that detailed a dream based on a book you only heard of which was never actually published? There were also things I thought I remembered from the Witches' Bridge, which weren't in it, causing me to have to leaf through another book to try to figure what I may have imagined, and what I may have remembered from one or more other books.