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The Virginia Mayflower ~ our Virginia Society Newsletter

Our Virginia Society newsletter, The Virginia Mayflower, is published twice a year. Each issue features details of our next luncheon meeting, directions, and a luncheon reservations form which must be mailed back by the stated deadline by members who wish to attend the luncheon meeting.

We encourage our members who use computers to provide us with their current email addresses so that we may deliver our newsletter to them electronically in color, saving the time and cost of printing and mailing the black-and-white “hardcopy” version of the newsletter.

Online Special: Click here to read "Calvinism and Colonial Native American Religious Worldviews" by Professor Robert J. King, an award-winning article we did not have space to include in our newsletter.

Click the thumbnail images below to view the full-size newsletters of your choice:


  • Keynote Speaker  for the 2026 Spring Luncheon  - Martin W. "Marty" Beerman, GSMD Secretary General
  • Governor's Message
  • Compact Day 2025 Meeting Summary and Memories
  • Sally Hobert Whiting, author
  • Genealogy at the Library of Congress
  • America 250: Patriots to Passenger Project in Virginia
  • Visit to the Jabez Howland House
  • In the Steps of My Texas Ancestors
  • John Copenhaver honored
  • Historian Report


  • Keynote Speakers  for the 2025 Compact Day Meeting - Jason Madre
  • Happy Semiquincentennial - America 250, 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
  • 2025 Mildred Ramos Scholarship Winner - Robert Cole Deaso
  • Luncheon Registration Information can be found on page 11
  • Since our last newsletter, 24 new Members and 12 supplemental Application have been approved
  • 2025 Spring Memeber Luncheon Meeting Minutes
  • Zoom Presentation Recap - "To Walk in all His Ways: John Robinson's Ministry and the Mayflower Compact"


  • Keynote Speakers  for the 2025 Spring Meeting
  •   -  Alexandra “Allie” Shires Golon - Historian General
      -  Chris Schlosser – Member at Large, Technology Committee Chair
  • Summary of the GBOA 2024 held at Asheville, NC
  • Luncheon Registration Information can be found on page 11
  • Happy 75th Anniversary, Virginia Mayflower Society
  • Since our last newsletter, we have welcomed 28 new Members
  • Compact Day Luncheon Meeting Minutes
  • Meg Averett's article on "Flat Charlotte in the Path of the Pilgrims"


  • Nominations for Board of Assistant officer positions from Nominating Committee

  • Speaker - Mary Ann Jung of History Alive! 

  • Spring 2024 Member Luncheon Report

  • Luncheon Registration Information

  • "The Mullins' Family Home in Dorking, England" by Marsha H. Masone
  • "The Long Yarn" by Robin Comfort
  • Fall Historian Report and new membership numbers
  • Maxwell Starr–Recipient of the 2024 Mildred Ramos Scholarship


  • Speaker – Richard Pickering, Deputy Executive Director at Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
  • Luncheon Registration Information can be found on page 11
  • 43rd GSMD Congress Report - attended by Lee Woody, Marsha Masone, Cynthia Carlson, and Karen Pogoloff.
  • Since our last newsletter, we have welcomed 6 new Junior Members
  • Compact Day Luncheon Meeting Minutes
  • Article on Dyeing Fabric on Colonial Days
  • My Visit to Fenstanton, England: John Howland's Birthplace, by Cynthia Edmunds

(Members Only) Newsletter Archives (2023 and prior years

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