United States. A Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Badge in Gold, Anna Van Wie Mosher

14K Gold with silvering and navy blue enamels, weighing 11.3 grams inclusive of its ribbon and clasps, maker marked ""CALDWELL & CO"" marked ""14 K"" (Gold), name engraved ""Anna Van Wie Mosher"" and number engraved ""94513"" on the reverse, measuring 27 mm (w) x 38.5 mm (h), two clasps on its original ribbon, the clasps inscribed ""SERGT. ABEL HINCKLEY"" and ""CAPT. JOHN A. VAN WIE"" respectively, crazing and chipping evident in the navy blue enamels on the inscribed ring, very fine.

Footnote: The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence. A non-profit group, they work to promote historic preservation, education, and patriotism. The organization's membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the Revolutionary period who aided the cause of independence; applicants must have reached eighteen years of age and are reviewed at the chapter level for admission. It currently has approximately 185,000 members in the United States and in several other countries. Its motto is ""God, Home, and Country."" Since the late 20th Century, following the civil rights movement and changes in historic scholarship, the organization has expanded its membership, recognizing minority contributions and expanding the definition of those whose work is considered to have aided the Revolution, and recognizing more ways in which women and other people served. In 1889, the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration was celebrated, and Americans looked for additional ways to recognize their past. Out of the renewed interest in United States history, numerous patriotic and preservation societies were founded. On July 13, 1890, after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to allow women to join their group, Mary Smith Lockwood published the story of patriot Hannah White Arnett in the Washington Post, asking, ""Where will the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution place Hannah Arnett?"" On July 21st of that year, William O. McDowell, a great-grandson of Hannah White Arnett, published an article in the Washington Post offering to help form a society to be known as the Daughters of the American Revolution. The first meeting of the society was held August 9, 1890. Sergeant Abel Hinckley was born on April 10, 1743 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, the son of Samuel Hinckley and Mary Hinckley. He was also the husband of Sarah Hubbard Hobart. He died on March 20, 1818 in Stonington, at the age of 74. Captain John A. Van Wie was in the Regiment of Militia of the State of New York, commanded by Colonel John Quackenbush in 1778. He was subsequently named Captain in the military service of the United States after the Revolution. He was married to Alida Van Wie and died in 1797. Anna Van Wie Mosher was born in 1866 and was a descendant of Hinckley and Van Wie. She died in March 1952, at the age of 86. She is buried in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville, Saratoga County, New York, Plot I 13.

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