are eligible for membership, so few have joined our 

 ranks. It must be because they have not learned 

 of the existence of this Society, or having learned 

 of it, have not understood or appreciated the good 

 it is doing, and if a perusal of these pages shall in- 

 duce some of those to join who have hitherto held 

 aloof, our work will not have been in vain. 



In closing this sketch we desire to express our ob- 

 ligations to Mr. William Kilby, Assistant Librarian 

 of the New York Historical Society, and to Mr. 

 Wentworth E. Butler, of the Society Library, for 

 courtesies extended to us in the researches it has 

 been found necessary to make. Also to the New 

 York Evening Post for the permission to examine 

 its files so obligingly granted. 



886. 



The Centennial year of the Society was signalized 

 by the receipt of a letter from Mr. Edward Hill, 

 who had filled the office of President for the two 

 yearsjmmediately preceding, reading as follows : 



New York, 3d February, 1886. 

 To Mr. E. F. Beddall, Chairman, and Gentlemen of 



the St. George's Society of New York, 

 Gentlemen : 



I have for some time had it in my mind to do 



