Excerpt from The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: Tenth Biennial Council Historians Address Her reports* have been of inestimable value to me. They have helped me at every turn. Her method of presentation as well as collation of a great and almost bewildering mass of facts of value, has been so admirable that I can only follow in her footsteps. What deviation I may make will be made because of changes in the aims or in the conduct of the Society. Those of us who have come to these our Councils and thus felt the pulse of our National Society life, must realize the steady widening of our interests and the inevitable concurrent increase in the complexity of our mechanism. Already we are a Society of greater power and importance than our Founders planned; and we are informed with a missionary zeal which however they may now approve, did not belong to the original scheme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.