Commander of Lafayette Post, No. 140, Department of New York. Reelected December, 1896, for a second term. 6. The California Pioneer Society of New York City, 1849–50. An ex-President of the society, 1893–94. 7. The New England Society in the city of New York. Life member. 8. The American Catholic Society of Philadelphia. 9. The Christ Church Historical Society of Philadelphia. 10. The National Geographical Society of Washington, D. C. 11. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York City. A Vice-President of the society. 12. The Navy Mutual Aid Society. An ex-President, having held the office five years. 13. The Society of Graduates of the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Class of 1850. Admiral Meade is also a lineal descendant of John Benjamin (gentleman), who came over from Wales, England, with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and settled at Cambridge, Mass. His son John removed to Connecticut. Admiral Meade’s great-great-grandfather, Col. John Benjamin, of Stratford, served in the War of Independence and received a British musket ball in his shoulder at the battle of Ridgefield. His brother, Col. Aaron Benjamin, of Stratford, was with Montgomery in the expedition to Quebec, and in the battles of White Plains, Princeton, Monmouth, Germantown, Fort Mifflin, Stony Point, and at Valley Forge. He was more than one hundred times under fire. At Stony Point, it is said, he was the second man to enter the fort. He was lieutenant and adjutant during the greater part of his service. The Admiral is also a lineal descendant of John Hopkins, of Hartford, Conn., who came to America in 1630. This John Hopkins is now alleged to have been one of the children (by first wife) of Stephen Hopkins, who came over in the _Mayflower_, 1620, and was the fourteenth signer of the compact of the Plymouth colonists. It is alleged (see the _Signers of Mayflower Compact_, by A. A. Haxtun) that John Hopkins (of Hartford) having a harsh stepmother, was left behind with his dead mother’s relatives in England, but followed his father to America in 1630, being then only seventeen years of age. Another line of descent is through Thomas Coates, who came over with William Penn in 1682. The descendant of this Thomas Coates was William Coates, of Philadelphia (a colonel in the Revolution), and the great-great-grandfather of the admiral. * * * * * Summing up the various strains of blood, here is the result: _Irish._—Meade, Butler. _English._—Meigs, Willard, Hopkins, Austin, Worsam, Stretch, Hosmer, Hamlin, Wilcox, Judd, Fry, Backus, Beckley, Sharpe, and Bronson. _Welsh._—Benjamin. _French._—Jacques. * * * * * _Religions._ _Catholic._—Meade. _Church of England._—Worsam, Butler, Austin, Richard Willard. _Non-Conformist or Puritan._—Meigs, Simon Willard, Hopkins, Hosmer, Benjamin, Wilcox, Hamlin, Judd, Fry, Backus, Beckley, Bronson, and Sharpe. _Quaker._—Coates.