Nathan Perry Chapter, NSDAR
Lorain County, Ohio
Who We Are
Chartered in 1918, the Nathan Perry Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is based in Grafton, Ohio. NSDAR is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, women’s volunteer service organization dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education, and patriotism.
Christmas 2021, Chapter Sock Photo
Who is Nathan Perry?
The chapter is named after Nathan Perry, Sr. He is listed in the Ohio State History of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as being a soldier from Rutland, Vermont. He achieved the rank of major. After the Revolutionary War, he married and settled in Connecticut. When Moses Cleveland brought his surveying party to the Ohio Territory in 1796, Major Perry (as he was known as) came as a trader and served as quartermaster for the party. He traded with the Indigenous people and supplied the group with fresh meats and goods. Major Perry recognized the value to investing in the land in this territory. He bought 1,000 acres in Lake County, 100 acres in Cleveland, and several acres at the mouth of the Black River in Lorain County. Major Perry returned to Connecticut and relocated his family to Ohio.
Service
The chapter provides annual awards and scholarships to local students and JROTC cadets and has adopted a local preschool classroom. It participates in naturalization ceremonies, commemoration ceremonies for Vietnam veterans. Local veterans’ groups, like Valor Home, are supported as well as the Lorain women’s organizations.
Members donate more than a thousand service hours throughout the county. Nathan Perry Chapter, NSDAR, participates in Wreaths Across America and recently made 1,300 facemasks for veterans, shelters, hospitals, and preschool children. The chapter is assisting in the preservation of the historic Grafton School, and supports both DAR schools and Indigenous persons schools.
Throughout the years, Nathan Perry Chapter, NSDAR, continues to support local, state, and national projects which embody the DAR mission.
Meetings are held September through December, and March through June on the second Saturday of the month at a variety of locations.
Please contact our Regent if you would like to attend a meeting.
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