Please donate to one or more of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Kansas funds.

Your generosity helps to support the Society and further the memory and mission of our Pilgrim ancestors.

All gifts and donations made to the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Kansas are tax deductible under the 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Code.

The General Fund

Your donation will contribute to the Kansas Society’s General Fund. Your contribution will be allocated to the area of greatest need for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Kansas. To make a donation, please navigate to the donation form and select “The General Fund.” 

Scholarship Fund

Your gift to the Sayler Barbour Scholarship Fund will contribute to the expansion of the Society’s perpetual Scholarship Trust Fund, thereby increasing the availability of scholarships to eligible candidates. To make a donation, kindly navigate to the donation form and select “The Scholarship Fund.”

Lifetime Member Fund

Lifetime Members, your donation will contribute to the Life Membership Fund of the Society. To make a donation, please scroll down to the donation form and select “Lifetime Member Fund.”

Meetinghouse History

The Mayflower Pilgrims’ first Meetinghouse was built at the top of Leyden Street in Plymouth in 1622.  Records of the Pilgrim ancestors were stored there and passed on from congregation to congregation through the years. This is the fifth spiritual structure built in this location, to honor and memorialize the Mayflower Pilgrims. 

The current Meetinghouse was built in 1897, the same year that the General Society of Mayflower Descendants was founded.  Thenceforth, families of descendants, historians and tourists from around the world have made regular pilgrimages to this very spot. In fact, our Mayflower descendants have helped to furnish this structure with Tiffany stained-glass windows from the New York and New Jersey Societies, objects in the sanctuary from the Fuller Society, as well as many other contributions through the years.

In 2014, the Meetinghouse was added to both the National Register of Historic Places and the List of Massachusetts’ Most Endangered Resources.

Then In 2018, the First Parish Church congregation, the former owners of the Meetinghouse, decided to donate the Meetinghouse to The Mayflower Society, in order to save and preserve the building.    

Today the General Society of Mayflower Descendants is in the process of a complete restoration and upgrade of the Mayflower Meetinghouse.