A SKETCH 



OF THE 



ORIGIN, PROGRESS AND WORK 



OF THE 



ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY 



OF NEW YORK. 



npHE occasion of the approaching celebration of 

 -'■ the one hundredth anniversary of our Society 

 has suggested the appropriateness of reviewing its 

 history and work from the date of its formation, in 

 1786, down to the present time, and at the quarterly 

 meeting held at ^he offices of the Society, No. 13 

 Trinity Place, on October loth, 1885, effect was 

 given to this idea by the adoption of the follow- 

 ing resolution : 



" That a committee of three be appointed to pre- 

 pare a record of the work of the Society since its 

 commencement, to be published during the Centen- 

 nial year of the Society." Whereupon, the Presi- 

 dent appointed Messrs. Robert Waller, E. F. Bed- 

 dal and H. A. Racker as such committee. 



In entering upon the duty thus assigned to us we 



