Samuel Corp, Robert Barnes, and Joseph Fowler, 

 a committee appointed at a quarterly meeting held 

 in January, 1828, and presented and adopted at a 

 subsequent meeting in April, 1830 : 



" The St. George's Society of New York was es- 

 tablished in the year 1786, immediately after the 

 date of the introduction prefixed. 



" It arose from the congenial feelings of some na- 

 tive English then settled here, who felt, that though 

 this was to be their permanent residence, they could 

 not restrain the gratifying recollections of their 

 native land, or be unmindful of the condition of 

 any who might resort to their vicinity in a state of 

 indigence or distress. 



" They formed a band who should delight in peri- 

 odical meetings, with the view of cherishing social 

 intercourse among themselves, and devising means 

 for the relief and happiness of others. 



" The most prominent character in organizing the 

 Society was Mr. John Wilkes, a true born English- 

 man, with a heart full of kindness and abounding 

 in all the social affections, whose worth, justly ap- 

 preciated as it was by numerous and respectable 

 connections, soon created subscribers to a constitu- 

 tion, and the English of character, finding their 

 way hither, almost without exception became mem- 

 bers, either permanent or honorary, according as 

 their residence was either fixed or transient. 



" Although it is said that this Society was estab- 



