NORFOLK CHAPTER • VIRGINIA SOCIETY • SAR
"Virginia's Premier Chapter"

Serving Virginia Society Compatriots in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Isle of Wight and Virginia's Eastern Shore... from border to border and "sea to sea..." to North Carolina in the south, Maryland in the north and eastward from the reaches of the Chesapeake Bay.

We are the Sons of the American Revolution in the history-rich geographic region of Tidewater Virginia, historic home to the Adam Thoroughgood House, the Battle of the Capes, the Battle of Great Bridge, the Battle of Kemps Landing, the Burning of Norfolk, the Francis Land House, the Lynnhaven House and Saint Paul's Episcopal Church ("the church by the mall with the ball in the wall"), the only remaining structure to survive the burning by its residents and the coordinated bombardment of Lord Dunmore's Fleet on New Year's Day 1776.
In a letter to compatriots residing in Tidewater who were members of other chapters, the Honorable William Moultrie Guerry, Judge of Norfolk's Circuit Court and President of our Chapter from 1994 to 1998, wrote "Ours is the Premier Chapter of the Virginia Society, having been first chartered on April 20, 1906 as 'Tidewater Chapter, No. 1' (VASSAR).  We are proud that a former member, Compatriot A. H. Foreman [after whom Old Dominion University's football field was named], was the first Virginian to serve the National Society as President General." †

 To date, the Norfolk Chapter has produced two Presidents General; the second, Reon G. Hillegass, Jr., who passed away in July 2011, was remembered on a plaque our Chapter dedicated with the Culpeper Minutemen Chapter on December 3, 2011 to memorialize both Thomas Marshall and his son John, both of whom were at the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9, 1775; the latter, having later served our country as the 4th (and longest-termed) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

For more information about joining our Chapter and its distinguished membership, please visit our "Welcome (Home)" links in the drop down menu of the navigation pane.  There is only one requirement - you must prove you descend from a Patriot who served the American cause during the approved period of the Revolutionary War. 


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Norfolk Chapter SAR
Mark S. Brennan, Sr., President
 Virginia Society SAR
Lawrence E. McKinley, Vice President General
 Mid-Atlantic District SAR
Larry J. Magerkurth, President General
 National Society SAR
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 The Norfolk Chapter and the National Society
resolved in 2010 to endorse legislation introduced
by U. S. Congressman Randy Forbes in support
of the symbolic Honor and Remember flag.

 
December 3rd 2011: Founder George Lutz displays the Honor and Remember flag during the Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Ceremony in Norfolk (left), and National Society SAR Vice President General Larry McKinley speaking at the NSSAR Inauguration of the Battle of Great Bridge in Chesapeake (right).


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The Norfolk Chapter Supports
 The Whitehurst-Buffington House Foundation

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Norfolk Chapter Perpetual Calendar
(In the order in which the months appear during the calendar year.)
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Norfolk Chapter SAR
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