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Emily Nelson Chapter
Washington, DC Chapter meetings are held the second Saturday of every month at 12:30. Everyone, prospective members and guests, are most welcome. Please contact us for further information or questions. Email: Emily Nelson Chapter.
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Our Chapter Emily Nelson will proudly celebrated our 100th year anniversary February 2, 2007! Emily Nelson has 66 members, two Life Members, four venerable members--one who is 100+ years old, one who has been a member 78 years, one 73 year member and one 71 year member, and five Associate Members. Chapter Accomplishments
History of Chapter Name
The Emily Nelson
Chapter was named in honor of Emily Nelson, grandmother of Mrs.
Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean, fifth President General, NSDAR. Emily
Nelson, Grandmother of Mrs. McLean, was the daughter of General
Roger Nelson who fought in the Revolutionary War, and his wife,
Betty Harrison Nelson.
General Roger Nelson was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in June 1759. At age 16, while a student at William and Mary College, Virginia, he entered military service with a South Carolina horse troop, commanded by Commander Augustine Washington, defending the city of Charlottesville, South Carolina. The troops were defeated by General Clinton and Roger Nelson was taken prisoner and imprisoned on a British ship. When he was exchanged, he again entered military service with the Maryland Line and was commissioned Lieutenant, August 15, 1780. He fought in Battles of Eutaw, Guilford, and Camden and was again taken prisoner. Exchanged the second time, he rejoined the Maryland line as Captain and fought through the war, receiving 16 wounds. He was present at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered, later receiving the rank of Brigadier General. He returned to Frederick, Maryland after the war, where he resided until his death on June 7, 1815. In 1835, Emily Nelson, daughter of General Nelson and Betty Harrison Nelson, married William Pickney Maulsby, who became Chief Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit of Maryland. Of this union, eight children were born, five of whom died in childhood. Their son, William Pickney Maulsby, Jr., married Henrietta Pigman. The second child, Emily Nelson Maulsby, married Henry Kimball of Kanosha, Wisconsin. The third child, Betty Harrison Maulsby, married Judge John Ritchie. Mrs. Ritchie became a member of NSDAR, May 25, 1892. She served as Regent of the Frederick, Maryland, Chapter, State Regent of Maryland, and as Vice President General, NSDAR. Her mother, Mrs. William P. Maulsby, died in 1867, a member of the Episcopal Church, and is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery near Frederick, Maryland. The eldest daughter of Judge Ritchie and Betty Harrison Maulsby, Emily Nelson Ritchie, married Donald McLean of New York. She was a charter member of NSDAR and a charter member of the New York City Chapter, serving as its Regent from 1895 to 1905. In 1905, she was elected President General, NSDAR, serving two terms 1905-1907 and 1907-1909. The new Chapter formed on January 11, 1907, was named Emily Nelson in her honor, and in honor of her grandmother.
Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter (merged with Emily Nelson Chapter in September 2003) Abigail Hartman Rice was born September 4, 1742. Twenty-one children were born of her marriage to Zachariah Rice. Their farm was situated not far from Valley Forge, PA. Zachariah Rice, with others, aided in the building of the hospital, Yellow Springs, for the caring of the sick and wounded of General Washington's Army, during its encampment during that bitter winter at Valley Forge. One of the most frequent visitors to this hospital was Mrs. Rice, who carried food and delicacies prepared by her at home, and who spent many hours in nursing the sick and wounded soldiers. During these visits she contracted the dreaded typhus fever, from the effects of which she died on November 6, 1789, aged 47 years. Seventeen children walked in the procession to her grave.
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