During the summer of 2017, 8 women met and shared their desire to create a new DAR chapter in Chesterfield County, Virginia. They envisioned naming the chapter Chesterfield Courthouse in honor of the 1749 Chesterfield Courthouse Continental Training Depot and General Rendez-Vous—a vital site for recruiting, training, and furnishing supplies to patriots who helped win the Revolutionary War. On May 5, 2018, the Chesterfield Courthouse Chapter, NSDAR, was established with 18 organizing members. With 78 chapter members and 10 associate members, we begin our 2025-2026 year.
The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded by Mary Desha, Eugenia Washington, Ellen Hardin Walworth, and Mary Smith Lockwood on October 11, 1890, in Washington, D.C., and was incorporated by an act of the United States Congress in 1896.
Chesterfield Courthouse image circa 1900 courtesy of Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia.
For more information, please see “The Continental Training Depot and General Rendez-Vous at Chesterfield Courthouse, Virginia 1780-1781,” written by Bettie Woodson Weaver, Past Regent, Bermuda Hundred Chapter, NSDAR. A copy is available at the DAR Library at DAR Headquarters, the Library of Virginia, the Chesterfield County Public Library, and the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia.
Chesterfield Courthouse Chapter NSDAR, Inc. 