Major Hugh Moss Chapter, NSDAR

Modesto, California

Welcome

Major Hugh Moss Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), is located in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. Meetings are usually held on the second Saturday of the month from January through May and September through December. For information about chapter meetings and membership, please contact our chapter Regent.

Objectives & Goals

History: Assist in lineage research, contribute books and records to the DAR Library, hold historic and American heritage programs, and identify and mark area historic sites and graves.

Education: Send labels and monetary support to NSDAR schools, give scholarship awards to high school seniors, sponsor DAR Good Citizens awards, donate books to local elementary school libraries, and award elementary school students through the American History Essay Contest.

Patriotism: Present DAR Youth Citizenship awards to eighth-graders, contribute personal items and needs to Modesto veterans, display flags on national holidays, attend veteran memorials, and give scholarships and medals to local Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) units.

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About Us

Organizing Regent Dora Myers Hanna met with the ladies to form a new chapter. On October 6, 1917, the chapter officially became Major Hugh Moss Chapter, NSDAR, in honor of the regent’s American Revolutionary War ancestor, Hugh Moss.

Hugh Moss was first commissioned Captain of the Goochland County Militia of Virginia in 1760, and commissioned Major in 1770. He served at Valley Forge and the Battles of Germantown and Brandywine, and died in 1780 of exposure and wounds received at the Battle of Brandywine.

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