The State Challenge encourages the fullest participation of SAR's membership to support the funding required to complete the Center for Advancing America's Heritage. Every State Society is challenged to have at least 20 percent of its membership contribute and reach the goal of an average gift of $250. The State Challenge Campaign has been led since its inception by Compatriot Lindsey Brock and Compatriot George Thurmond and is part of the Capital Campaign chaired by Compatriot Samuel Powell.
Happy Anniversary!
The SAR commemorates the 1783 Treaty of Paris 230th Anniversary, September 3, 2013.
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties. Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries.
Peace negotiations began in April of 1782, involving American representatives Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams. The British representatives present were David Hartley and Richard Oswald.
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