“Parade with us my brave fellows*”…Join the Jersies!

The New Jersey Society welcomes Dual Membership for compatriots whose patriot ancestors lived or fought in New Jersey

You may live anywhere, but did any of your patriot ancestors live, fight, or die in New Jersey? Honor your patriot, get updates on activities and events in the Crossroads of the Revolution…then do something revolutionary… come visit where the tides turned at Trenton, and where privateers launched hundreds of raids against His Majesty's Royal Navy.  

During the American Revolution, more than seven hundred and thirty battles and skirmishes were fought in New Jersey. General George Washington spent more time in New Jersey than in any other state during the war. Continentals and militia units from all states fought and died in the “Jersies” at Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Connecticut Farms, and Springfield. While Valley Forge garners near-mythic status on the national story, there were three winter encampments in New Jersey; one at Jockey Hollow and two at Middlebrook. The citizens of the “Garden State” suffered the ravages of foraging from the Continentals and American militia units, the British, and their Hessians Auxiliaries.

A compatriot may establish membership in more than one state society by applying to the additional state society for Dual Membership. He must be a full, dues-paying active member in his home state to hold dual membership in other state societies but will continue to pay his national, state, and chapter dues in his home state. He will pay the state and chapter dues only as a dual member in other states and will not be reported to the National Society as a member on their rosters. He is eligible to be a delegate from his dual state or home state, but not in both societies.

You can choose your chapter, click here - or become a member of the Elizabethtown Chapter - the first SAR established on March 7, 1889.

*According to the historical record, General George Washington yelled this rallying cry when leading the counterattack on the morning of January 3, 1777, on the Quaker farm of William Clarke against LT Colonel Charles Mawhood and the British 17th Reg. of Foot in an action that became known as the Battle of Princeton.