Welcome to the Virginia Mayflower Society!

The Virginia Mayflower Society was founded in 1950 and operates as a non-profit, educational, charitable, hereditary organization. Since then, more than 2,000 direct lineal descendants of the 102 passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower have become Virginia Mayflower Society members as well as members of the prestigious General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) headquartered in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A significant number of our Virginia members have served the General Society in a variety of roles and responsibilities over the years, including Miss Mildred Ramos, the only Virginian elected Governor General of the General Society.

At the present time, the Virginia Mayflower Society has more than 895 regular members and more than 370 Junior members.  Additional information about regular and junior membership can be found on the Membership page.

Every third year, a Virginia delegation (one delegate for each 50 members) joins delegates from the 54 Member Societies representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Europe and Australia at the General Congress held in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In addition, some of our members also attend Pilgrim-family gatherings held in conjunction with each triennial Congress, such as the Pilgrim John Howland Society, the Elder William Brewster Society, the Governor William Bradford Compact, the Alden Kindred of America, the Soule Kindred in America, and the Fuller Society.

Our Mildred Ramos 1620 Early American History Award in the amount of $3,240 ($1620 x 2) is presented to a master's degree candidate whose research and academic work of early American is judged by William & Mary’s History faculty to be the most outstanding and consistent with the Virginia Society of Mayflower Descendants’ program objectives.

Nancy Quigley Saul
Governor, Virginia Society of Mayflower Descendants