Upcoming Meetings and Events
September 18, 2010 - Board of Managers meeting 9am, MESSAR Member Event 11:00am. Ground Round near Augusta Civic Center,
110 Community Drive, Augusta, ME 04330 - (207) 623-0022
Click ,here to download the meeting notice
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WELCOME!
Welcome to the website and welcome to our
organization. I hope that our presence on the website has been or will be of
some benefit to all of you. We are open to applications for membership. See the
section on membership for some suggestions on how to get started. Anyone who has
started an application is considered to be a candidate and is welcome at our
general membership meetings. If you have specific knowledge of soldiers from
Maine who served in the American Revolution, please
write to me. If you have thoughts of activities that the organization might
pursue or how we might improve what we are already doing, please
get in touch with me. Don't be shy! -
W. Dayton Salisbury
The Maine Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution (MESSAR) is the state affiliate for the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR). It was organized in
Portland in 1891. The preliminary meeting was held February 21; a proposed
Constitution and By-Laws were presented for consideration February 28, and were
adopted March 14. The election of officers followed March 28.
 Any
man shall be eligible for membership in the Maine Society Sons of the American
Revolution who: Being of the age of eighteen years or over
and a citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of an
ancestor who was at all times unfailing in loyalty to and rendered active
service in, the cause of American independence, either as an: officer, soldier,
seaman, marine, militiaman or Minuteman, in the armed forces of the Continental
Congress, or of any one of the several Colonies or States; or as a Signer of the
Declaration of Independence, or as a member of a Committee of Safety or
Correspondence; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial
Congress or Legislature; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual service
by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain.
The memorial above was
placed at Valley Forge by the Maine Sons of the American Revolution in the early
part of the 20th century.
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Maine In 1776-
At the time of the American Revolution,
Maine, not a State until 1820, was part of Massachusetts. Because of Maine's
remoteness from the authorities in Boston and the Continental Congress in
Philadelphia, the inhabitants received little military support despite the
proximity of the British across the border in Canada and constant pressure from
the Royal Navy along the coast. Apart from Benedict Arnold's ill-fated
expedition to Quebec through the wilderness of western Maine, most military
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Help Is Needed
From MESSAR Members
Your MESSAR Webmaster, Bryan, is working to build the
largest online database of
Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in
Maine. In order to do this, we need your help. Please scout your local
cemeteries and historical societies to learn the location of a Revolutionary War
grave in Maine. When you find the grave, take a picture of it, document it's
location, and then e-mail the photo to the webmaster so we can add it to the
database.
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Colour Guard News
Visit the Colour Guard website (http://mysite.verizon.net/cemcgill/index.htm) for information on the Colour Guard, how to join, and upcoming events.
Visit the website.
 Knox's
Artillery
Colonel Knox's Artillery Regiment, Inc. is a group of living
history interpreters who participate in battle demonstrations for the public on
historic sites as well as in cities & towns along the East Coast of the United
States & Canada. Visit their website.
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