Virginia Society Participates in Crossing of the Dan Ceremony

Pictured at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony of the Crossing of the Dan are representatives of the Virginia Society and the National Order (left to right): Dr. Mike Weyler, VAOFPA Genealogist; Dr. Dan Warren, OFPA Governor General; Zander Sheffield, VAOFPA Associate; J. Shane Newcombe, VAOFPA Governor; Walter J. Sheffield, VAOFPA Lt. Governor. J. Shane Newcombe is a resident of Scuffletown, Virginia.

RANDOLPH – The Virginia Society of the Founders & Patriots of America (VAOFPA) recently participated in the wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the 237th Commemoration of the Crossing of the Dan held at The Prizery and Boyd’s Ferry in South Boston, Virginia on Saturday, February 17, 2018.  More than twenty hereditary organizations throughout the Commonwealth were present to pay tribute to the patriotic event that took place on February 14, 1781.  The Crossing of the Dan has been described as a “masterful military maneuver” that would mark the beginning of the defeat of the British by the American Patriots.

The VAOFPA is a hereditary society dating back to 1896.  Membership in the Order is open to any man 18 years or older who is of good moral character and reputation, a citizen of the United States, and lineally descended in the male line of either parent from an ancestor who settled prior to May 13, 1657, in any of the colonies now included in the United States of America; and one or all of whose intermediate ancestors in the same line lived in the period of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783 and adhered as patriots to the cause of the colonies. Members are called Associates.  More information may be obtained by visiting www.founderspatriots.org.