The eligibility requirements make this society unique among all patriotic-hereditary societies.
Eligibility requires an unbroken paternal line of either the applicant's father or mother, going back to a FOUNDER who arrived in one of the Colonies between May 13, 1607 and May 13, 1687, and further stipulates that in this unbroken line there be an intermediary PATRIOT ancestor who gave military or civil service in establishing American independence in the period of 1775 to 1784.
