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Scheduled Meetings:

 

Our next meeting will be held at the Cranbury Inn in historic Cranbury, New Jersey on Saturday April 24, 2010 and begin at 11:00 AM.

 

Program:

Maureen O'Connor Leach, the executive director National Society of Colonial Dames of America in New Jersey, will describe the Peachfield Plantation in Westhampton, New Jersey.
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Meetings are held twice per year; the Founders' Day Meeting is held on the first Saturday of November, the Annual Meeting, usually held on a Saturday of in late April or early May.

 

Exact details on times and places of events are announced by the Executive Committee, with notices sent to each member at least six weeks before each meeting. 

 

Election of officers occurs bi-annually at the Annual Meeting in spring.

 

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Previous Meetings:

 

November 2009

Speaker:

Cate Litvack, Executive Director Crossroads of the American Revolution National and State Heritage Area. Director Litvack discussedt “1784:  When Trenton Was the Capital of the United States."  

 

April 2008

Speaker:
Richard F. Veit, Ph.D., RA
Associate Professor of History, Monmouth University
Program:

Joseph Bonaparte at Pointe Breeze New Jersey.

Dr. Veit discussed the Bordentown site of Joseph Bonaparte’s estate in America from 1816 to 1844. Joseph, the former King of Spain, Naples, and Sicily, and older brother of Napoleon lived in New Jersey from 1816 until 1839. Students from Dr. Veit’s anthropology class have unearthed the remains of Bonaparte’s palatial house and more than 14,000 artifacts.

 

November 2007
Speaker:
Mrs. Anne Taylor
Program:

Guided tour of historic First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury

 

May 2007
Speaker:
David Lent Church
Program:
An American Story: Catoneras and Cornelis Jansen Van Tassel