Jamestowne Society

Membership is open to men or women who are:

• direct descendants of a person who owned land or had domicile on Jamestown Island before 1700,
• residents of Virginia at the time of the 1624/25 Muster, or
• direct descendants of a stockholder in the London Company or Virginia Company.

Governors, secretaries of state, treasurers, attorneys general and auditors general of the colony, clerks and deputy clerks of the general court, members of the Governor’s Council, and members of the House of Burgesses before 1700 are presumed to have had domiciles at Jamestown during their terms of office and are suitable for qualification for the membership of their descendants.