Membership is offered to women age 18 and over who can prove lineal descent from those men and women who were actual residents of America when it was under foreign government as colonies and who served prior to July 4, 1776 in any of the following capacities prior to July 4, 1776:
- 1. In battle under colonial authority
- 2. Under the banner of Great Britain in North America in any of the wars in which the colonists participated
- 3. All military and naval service of the colonies
- 4. Furnished troops or funds
- 5. Filled office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Deputy Governor
- 6. Member or Delegate to Council or Assembly
- 7. Member of House of Burgesses
- 8. Deputy or Representative to the General Court
- 9. Commissioner of the United Colonies, of Boundaries or Treaties, of Import or Excise, to the French or Indians
- 10. Secretary, Magistrate, Selectman, Justice, Judge of any Court of Law or Equity, Attorney, Advocate, Solicitor, Juryman, Sheriff, Constable, or other forms of civil service
- 11.Founder or Trustee of any College in North America
- 12. Minister of the Gospel or Commissary of the Bishop of London
- 13. Member of the Committee of Safety of the Continental Congress, 1774 and 1775
- 14. Member of the Council of Safety of 1689
- 15. Signers of the Mayflower Compact and documented Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth and resided in the colonies
- 16. Speaker of the House of Deputies
- 17. Physician or Surgeon
- 18. Member of the Provincial Congress
- 19.Signer of the Declaration of Independence
- 20. Huguenot Refugee
- 21.Signer of the Oath of Allegiance to Great Britain
- 22. Original Land Owner, not inheritor
- 23. Member of the London, Plymouth or Virginia Companies who actually came to the colonies, or the first immigrant descendant of any member of these companies who resided in the colonies
- 24. Palatine Settler
- 25. Convenanter from Scotland who actually came to the Colonies or the first immigrant descendant of a Convenanter from Scotland
- 26. Saltzburger of Georgia
- 27. Participant in the Regulator Movement of 1765-1771 in North Carolina or in the Regulator Movement of 1767-1769 in South Carolina