The membership of this society shall be limited to direct lineal descendants, male and female, of the founders of the New Haven Colony. A founder of the New Haven Colony is defined as one of the free planters who assented to the Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639
The list of the free planters who assented to the Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639, can be found in the Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven from 1638 to 1649, edited by Charles J. Hoadly, Hartford, Conn.: Case, Tiffany & Co., 1857, pages 11-18.