The meeting was held at the home of Miss Mary McKeen, who was afterward made honorary organizing regent. The chapter was named after Moorestown, New Jersey, which is in Burlington County. Moorestown is filled with Revolutionary War sites and history with its involvement in the American Revolution. The Isaac Burroughs Chapter was conceived on 13 March 1937 at an organizational meeting at the home o
f Mrs. On 20 November 1937 the Isaac Burroughs Chapter was chartered and the ceremonies took place at the Walt Whitman Hotel in Camden, New Jersey. Isaac Burroughs was the name chosen as he contributed to the American cause for Independence. The Burroughs family had emigrated from England to Long Island and later came to West Jersey in 1693. Circa 1762 Isaac settled in Newton Township in the area that is now Audubon. He was reared a Quaker and at the outbreak of the Revolution was about fifty years old. Since General Washington had called all able-bodied men from sixteen to sixty, it is traditionally claimed that Isaac Burroughs gave generously to the American Army. He housed and fed the soldiers on his plantation. In the terrible years of 1776 to 1778 when the area near Haddonfield was feeling the brunt of this disastrous struggle for freedom and the territory was overrun with refugees, British and Hessian, it is said that Isaac Burroughs joined the First Regiment under Colonel Joseph Ellis. The two chapters were combined, and the chapter Moorestown-Isaac Burroughs Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was named in April 2009. In 2017, the Chapter voted unanimously to change the name back to Moorestown Chapter NJDAR. The Isaac Burroughs history and legacy will always be honored by the Moorestown Chapter.
