Room 1A

Executive Papers, A Publication of The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America. Issue 3, Summer 2006.
Issue includes:
- Message from President
- Officer Reports
- Propositi for Membership (see Issue 1)
- Ahnentafels for Susan G. Haskell (wife of William Brown Ide, President of the Republic of California); Hannah Este (wife of David Gouverneur Burnet, 1st President of the Republic of Texas); Maragret Moffett Lea (wife of Samuel Rutherford Houston, 2nd and 4th President of the Republic of Texas); Mary (Smith) McCrery (wife of Anson Jones, 5th President of the Republic of Texas); Varina Ann Banks Howell (wife of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America); Martha (Dandridge) Custis (wife of George Washington); Abigail Smith (wife of John Adams); Martha Jefferson Randolph (White House hostess, daughter of Thomas Jefferson); Dolley (Payne) Todd (wife of James Madison); Elizabeth Forthright (wife of James Monroe); Louisa Catherine Johnson (wife of John Quincy Adams).
- Presidential Trivia
- Revisions to prior issues
- Several pages of diagrams showing how featured Presidents and First Ladies are related to other Presidents and First Ladies
- Ahnentafels on Fulwar Skipwith, President of the Republic of West Florida; David g. Burnet, 1st President of the Republic of Texas; Samuel R. Houston, 2nd and 4th President of the Republic of Texas; Mirabeau B. Lamar, 3rd President of the Republic of Texas; Anson Jones, 5th President of the Republic of Texas; William Brown Ide, President of the Republic of California; Jefferson David, President of the Confederate States of America; George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Herbert Hoover.
- History Lesson in Brief: The Jefferson Memorial
-Editor’s essay: Political satire in political cartoons, free speech, civility, and responsible reporting
- Presidential Trivia
- Rhode Island’s Connection to Eleven Presidents and Three First Ladies: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William Howard Taft, Franklin Roosevelt, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush., and first ladies Barbara Pierce Bush, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, and Frances Folsom Cleveland.
- Minutes of meetings of Order and 3rd Annual White House Dinner held at Sherwood Forest, home of President John Tyler. Articles on Sherwood Forest, Indian Fields Tavern (located on John Tyler Memorial Highway) and Berkeley Plantation (claims to fame - built by Benjamin Harrison in1726, “Taps” was composed at Berkeley in 1862 and President William Henry Harrison called Berkeley “home.”
- List of member - one of which is Lois Goldsbury Macy with ties to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, William Howard Taft, Geroge Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush, (John) Calvin Coolidge, Richard Milhous Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Nancy Davis Reagan, Elizabeth Wallace Truman, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore.
- Necrology of Order
- Several supplementary applications

Large looseleaf album compiled by Lois Macy, who was generation 10 from the subject of this book, Seth Sweetser. Sweetser was born 1606 in Tring, England and died in Charlestown, MA in 1662. Copies of town records with references to Seth and his future generations are included, letters, etc.

Executive Papers, A Publication of The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America. Issue 2, Summer 2005.
Issue includes:
- Message from the President of the Order
- Officer Reports
- Membership Qualifications (refer to Issue 1)
- Ahnentafels for first ladies Elizabeth Harrison (Mrs. Peyton Randolph), Dorothy Quincy (Mrs. John Hancock), Sarah VanBrugh Livingston (Mrs. John Jay), Martha Devotion (Mrs. Samuel Huntington), Sarah Armitage (Mrs. Thomas McKean), Jane Contee (Mrs. John Hanson), Hannah Stockton (Mrs. Elias Boudinot), Sarah Morris (Mrs. Thomas Mifflin), Anne Gaskins (Mrs. Richard Henry Lee), Rebecca Call (Mrs. Nathaniel Gorham), Phoebe Bayard (Mrs. Arthur St.Clair), Christhena Stuart (Mrs. Cyrus Griffin).
- Corrections to prior issues
- History Lesson - was David Rice Atchison President of the U.S. for one day?
- Ahnentafels of Peyton Randolph 1st President of the Continental Congress of the United Colonies of America; Henry Middlton, 2nd President of the Continental Congress of the United Colonies of America; John Hancock 3rd President of the Continental Congress of the United Colonies of America, 1st President of the Continental Congress of the United States of America, and 7th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Henry Laurens, 2nd President of the Continental Congress of the United States of America; John Jay 3rd President of the Continental Congress of the United States of America, Samuel Hutington 4th President of the Continental Congress of the United States of America and 1st President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Thomas McKean, 2nd President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; John Hanson, 3rd President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Elias Boudinot, 4th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Thomas Mifflin, 5th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Richard Henry Lee, 6th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Arthur St. Clair, 9th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled; Cyrus Griffin, 10th President of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.
- Several pages of charts showing kinships between Pre-and Post-Constitutional Presidents and First Ladies.
- Presidential Trivia
- Philately and the Pre-Constitutional Presidents
- Minutes of meetings of Order and 2nd Annual White House Dinner with focus on President James Buchanan and his home “Wheatland”
- List of members (included in list is Lois Goldsbury Macy with ties to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, William Howard Taft, George Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush, (John) Calvin Coolidge, Richard Milhous Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Necrology of Order
- Short essay on the date October 13, 1792 when the cornerstone of the White House was laid.

Executive Papers, A Publication of The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America. Issue 1, Summer 2004.
- The Hereditary Order was organized on April 6, 2003 by a group of thirteen individuals who could each prove kinship to either an American President or First Lady. Those eligible for membership include those with documented kinship to Presidents and First Ladies of The Continental Congress of the United Colonies of America, The Continental Congress of the United States of America, The United States of America in Congress Assembled, The United States of America under the Constitution of the United States, The Republic of West Florida, The Republic of Texas, The Republic of California, and The Confederate States of America.
The first issue includes:
- A message from the President of the Order
- A short biography on each of the founders of the Order
- First Ladies vs. White House Hostess
- Ahnentafels (ancestral listing) of Frances (Folsum) Cleveland and George Herbert Walker Bush
- Folsum and Bush kinship diagram
- Essay on the question of whether Edith Wilson was in fact America’s first female President
- A brief history of the Republic of West Florida (whose President was Fulwar Skipwith, the republic was in existence 74 days and its flag was “the Bonnie Blue Flag.”)
- Presidential Trivia
- Minutes of the Order’s meetings and of the Order’s first annual White House dinner held at the Gadsby’s Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia
- Listing of Order members (one of which is Lois Goldsbury Macy with ties to John Adams and John Quincy Adams
- Necrology of Order
- Tribute to Ronald Reagan.

Maas, David E. compiler and editor; Divided Hearts - Massachusetts Loyalists 1765-1790, a Biographical Directory, The New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, 1980.
On page 65 Goldsbury, Samuel

Book is located left unit, wooden cabinet, room 1a

A large blue binder collecton about Cpt. James Goldsbury and his time in Warwick. Extensive material includes photos, letters, news clips, genealogy, birth records, and much more.

A large blue binder containing extensive information (genealogical charts, news clips, photographs, letters, origin of the name Goldsbury, and much more)

Sanborn, Melinde Ludz; Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore. 1991.

Book located left unit, wooden cabinet, rm 1a

Torrey, Clarence Almon with an introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts; New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Prepared for Publication by Elizabeth P. Bentley. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1987.

Book located left unit, wooden cabinet, rm 1a

The three ring binder contains correspondence from Lois Macy about her ancestor Samuel Goldsbury, loyalist. It contains a register of burials in the Parish of Trinity, NY.-Volume I, p. 151, p.157, Volume II, p. 171, p.262;p.267