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Descendants of French-Canadian and Acadian participants who aided the American cause of Independence, serving in Canadian regiments, providing supplies, or fighting in specific actions like the 1775 Invasion of Quebec, are eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) or Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), provided they can prove direct lineal descent.Many of those veterans came to settle in the Lake Champlain Basin as refugees after the war, and were the anchor of our French-Canadian communities which grew up around the Lake so strongly that by 1850, half of New England’s French Canadians were to be found in just four Vermont counties: Grand Isle, Franklin, Chittenden and Addison, which all front Lake Champlain.
Join Jolene Mullen of the DAR to learn more about our extraordinary ancestors and about the organization that is dedicated to preserving the memory and legacy of our brave forebears.
Jolene Mullen is a professional genealogist and genealogical speaker specializing in lineage research and New England records. A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she has served as national chair of the Lineage Research Committee, national vice chair of the French Task Force, the Cold Cases Committee and the Chapter Development and Revitalization Committee, twice as a CT DAR state officer, and is the state chair of both the State Application Team and the Chapter Development and Revitalization Committee. Her publications on town meeting records during the American Revolution are now standard reference for historians and genealogists.
Class starts at 10:30 a.m. (ET) in-person at the Library.
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57 River Road, Essex Junction, VT, United States, Vermont 05452, 57 River Rd, Essex Junction, VT 05452-3842, United States, Essex
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