******************************************************************************* News & Events 2022 November 19, 2022 Our Compact Day
Commemoration and SMDAL 70th Anniversary Celebration The
American Village Trust in Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama, on
Saturday, November 19, 2022, beginning at 11:30. a.m. -- $25.00
per person.
We will
have a State Society business meeting, a sumptuous buffet lunch,
and an update from Dr. Erin Kate Scheopner, GSMD Director of
Genealogy and Research Services. Our featured on-site speaker
will be Robert Scott Davis. Bob is well known for his
genealogical publications and classes on genealogy at Wallace
State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama. Robert S. Davis
has been a senior professor of History and director of the
Genealogy Program of Wallace State Community College,
Hanceville, Alabama.
He
helped to build one of the South's most extensive genealogical
collections. Bob teaches a college-level genealogy course and
several continuing education courses on genealogy and research,
particularly in Alabama and Georgia. His many publications
include several articles and books such as Tracing Your Alabama
Past; Research In Georgia; Andersonville Civil War Prison; The
1833 Land Lottery of Georgia; Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of
the American Revolution; and Troy Insurgents: The Loyalists.
Send no money yet but, PLEASE R.S.V.P your intent to attend.
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 11:00 a.m. American Village in
Montevallo, Alabama Please join us for this meeting as we will
have as our Speaker: Governor General Jane Hurt The American Village in
Montevallo, Alabama 3727 Highway 119, Montevallo, AL 35115
Phone: 205-665-353
Capital Colony Meeting August 17th 2019
Capital Colony Meeting April 6th 2019
Gulf Coast Colony Meeting
Next Meeting
Alabama State Meeting
April 28, 2018
at the Huntsville Country Club,
2601 Oakwood Avenue, Huntsville AL
Guest speaker will be the GSMD
Governor General George Garmony
Board
of Assistants Meeting – 9:30 a.m.
Meeting - 11:00 am
Capital Colony Meeting February
17, 2018
Place: Montgomery Country Club in the Beauvoir Room. Date:
Saturday February 17, 2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. business meeting Meal:
12:00 Noon Program after the meal
Our speaker will be Miss
Haley Aaron Manuscripts Archivist of the Alabama Department of
Archives and History
Alabama State Meeting
October 28, 2017
State Society of Mayflower Descendants in Alabama Compact Day Meeting
and Luncheon The Club, Birmingham, Alabama Board of Assistants Meeting
-- 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m., Compact Day Meeting & Luncheon: Glen Iris Room
1 Robert S. Smith Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35209-1263 (205-323-5821)
Menu: Chicken Cordon Bleu topped with Chicken
Veloute’ sauce, paired with Southern Green Beans and Roasted New
Potatoes. Dessert alternatives: Banana Pudding Parfait & Chocolate Pecan
Tart
Alabama State Meeting
April 29, 2017
The next State meeting will be Saturday April 29, 2017 at
Wynlakes Country Club. We will have a Board of Assistants
meeting at 9:30 with the business meeting at 11:30 am.
Lunch at 12:00 Noon.
Our Guest Speaker – “Historian of Montgomery” Mary Ann Neeley
Cahaba River Colony Meeting
February 4, 2017
The next colony meeting will be Saturday February 4, 2017 at Montgomery
Country Club in the Beauvoir Room. We will have a short business meeting at 11:00 am. Lunch
at 12:00 Noon.
Our speaker will be
Mr. William Dean. Mr. Dean is currently
the Associate Professor of Comparative Military Studies, at the Air
Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL and also serves as the
Adjunct professor Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), at
Hurlburt Field, FL near Fort Walton Beach Florida. He attended the
University of the South and received his MA and PHD from the University
of Chicago. He served as the Coordinator of Peace War and Diplomacy
Studies, Norwich University in Northfield VT and was a Lecturer at De
Paul University, Roosevelt Univ., and Lyndon State College. He also
received Grants and Fellowships to attend Chateaubriand (French Govt.)
and the Air University Foundation Research Grant.
Our Meal will consist of Mediterranean Chicken served with Roasted Red
Potatoes and Frenched Green Beans and Dessert of Key Lime Pie.
The cost will be $28.00 per person.
RESERVATIONS: Call/E-Mail
Alan M. Davis by Wednesday February 1, 2017
E-Mail address:
amd7thcedar@charter.net Telephone No. 334-207-4884 (Cell) or
334-270-8657 (Home) Please leave message if not home.
You can
pay when you get there and please make the checks payable to the Cahaba River
Colony.
State
Compact Day Meeting Oct 29, 2016 at The Club in Birmingham
AL
Board of Assistants meeting at 10:00 am with the meeting starting at
11:00 am.
Guest Speaker—Elder William Brewster
(1566-1644)
(introduction by
Michel Marcoux)
Plimoth
Colony, circa 1633
“Why
we sailed on the Mayflower and colonized Plimoth.”
Cahaba River Colony Meeting
August 6, 2016
The next colony meeting will be Saturday August 6th 2016 at Montgomery
Country Club. We will have a short business meeting at 11:00 am. Lunch
at 12:00 Noon.
Our speaker will be Ret. Col. Jeffrey Benton
who will speak on how our ancestors traveled along the Federal Road to
come to Alabama and Westward.
Our Meal
will consist of Chicken stuffed with Goat Cheese, Apricot and Sage
served with Roasted Red Potatoes and French Green Beans Fresh Rolls and
Butter.
The cost
will be $20.00 per person.
RESERVATIONS: Call/E-Mail
Alan M. Davis by Tuesday August 2nd, 2016
E-Mail
address:
amd7thcedar@charter.net
Telephone No.
334-207-4884 (Cell) or 334-270-8657 (Home) Please leave message if
not home.
You can pay
when you get there and please
make the checks payable to the
Cahaba River Colony.
Cahaba River Colony Meeting
March 12, 2016
The next colony meeting will be Saturday March 12th 2016 at
Wynlakes Country Club. We will have a short business meeting at 11:30 am.
Lunch at 12:00 Noon.
Our speaker will be Mr. William Dean
He
is currently the Associate Professor of Comparative Military Studies, at
the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL and also serves as
the Adjunct professor Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), at
Hurlburt Field, FL near Fort Walton Beach Florida.
He attended the University of the
South and received his MA and PHD from the University of Chicago.
He served as the Coordinator of
Peace War and Diplomacy Studies, Norwich University in Northfield VT and
was a Lecturer at De Paul University, Roosevelt Univ., and Lyndon State
College. He also received Grants
and Fellowships to attend Chateaubriand (French Govt.) and the Air
University Foundation Research Grant.
State
Compact Day Meeting May 7, 2016 - 11:30 am at Heron Lakes
Country Club, Heron Nest Room 3851 Government Blvd West (Hwy 90 West,
Exit 1 off I65) Mobile, Alabama
Guest Speaker: Mr. Michael Bailey Executive Director, Fort Morgan
Historical Site “Fort Bowyer and its Place in the War of 1812”
Guests Are Welcome! $26 for Buffet: two Entrees, three vegetables,
rolls, desert, coffee, tea RSVP and mail checks by 29 April to Dr.
Jack Dwyer, 12655 Dominion Dr., Fairhope AL 36532; email RSVP to
cmdwyer843@earthlink.net or call 251-929-0517. Checks payable to
SMDAL or pay at door
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Gulf Coast Colony Compact Day Meeting October 25, 2014
State
Compact Day Meeting Nov 1, 2014 at The Club in Birmingham
AL
Board of Assistants meeting at 10:00 am with the meeting starting at
11:00 am.
Guest Speaker –
Dr. Jeffrey Engler,
Jamestowne Society
Cahaba River Colony Meeting
Feb 1, 2014
The next colony meeting will be Saturday February 1st, 2014 at Wynlakes
Country Club. We will try to have a short business meeting at 11:30 am.
Lunch at 12:00 Noon.
Our
Speaker will be Mr. Bill Stone who has one of the original copies of the
Articles of Confederation on loan from a friend to present it to us.
Please put the word out and invite all of your family and friends. This
is a once in a life time opportunity to see something like this.
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The State Society meeting in Birmingham at The Club, Nov. 23, 2013 at
11:00 am. Board of assistants met at 10:00 am.
Our speaker was Governor
General Bruce MacGunnigle.
He is our
32nd Governor General of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Governor General MacGunnigle has been a member for 40 years,
joining the Rhode Island Society at the young age of 24, the first in
his family to do so.
Governor General MacGunnigle is a descendant of William Brewster, James
Chilton, Francis Cooke, Edward Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas Rogers,
and Richard Warren; and has twelve lines of descent to seven of the
twenty-three families on the Mayflower
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