The Most Distinguished Pilgrim Award is bestowed upon Pennsylvania Society members for their exceptional service to the State Society.

The Katharine F. Little Distinguished Mayflower Scholarship Award is a national award given to those individuals who are not members of the State Society in recognition of their meritorious work in enhancing understanding of the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims’ contributions to American life.

Most Distinguished Pilgrim Award
Robert M. Bartlett		1990
Charles B. Barclay		1991
Marion M. Greene		1992
George H. Soule		1993
Katharine F. Little		1996
Peter B. Hill		1998
Lois E. Masterson		1999
Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr.		2000
Barbara Brock Kidder		2001
William Brewster		2002
John M. Hunt, Jr.		2003
Edward A. Parker, IV		2004
Betty Persons		2005
Patricia A. G. Hill		2006
Constance F. Lagerman		2007
Stacy B. C. Wood Jr.		2008
Joseph H. Wood		2009
Winchell S. Carroll		2010
The Katharine F. Little Distinguished Mayflower Scholarship Award
Caroline Lewis Kardell - 1999 Historian General, General Society
Robert Charles Anderson, CG, FASG - 2000 Director, Great Migration Project
Dr. Jeremy Dupertius Bangs - 2001 Director, Leiden-American Pilgrim Museum
James W. Baker, Jr. - 2002 Former Senior Historian, Plimoth Plantation
Rev. Gary L. Marks - 2003 Pastor, Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, MA Author, "Pilgrims Then and Now"
Alice C. Teal, Editor - 2004 General Society, The Mayflower Quarterly
Nancy W. Bauer - 2005 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Edith Bates Thomas - 2006 Director, GSMD Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Project
Nathaniel Philbrick - 2007 Author, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Peggy M. Baker – 2008 Director & Librarian, Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum
Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG – 2009 Genealogist and Major Pilgrim Research Facilitator
Peter Arenstam – 2010 Head, Maritime Artisans Department/Captain Mayflower II, Plimoth Plantation
Jill M. Hall – 2011 Former Colonial Wardrobe Department Head, Plimoth Plantation
Vicki A. Oman and Christopher Messier – 2012 Plimoth Plantation Museum Teachers
Emeritus Members (Members for 50 or more years)
Ann Boswell		1958
John L. Bruch, Jr.		1961
Virginia Clark		1959
Mary N. Cleary		1953
William W. Collins		1955
D. Weston Darby, Jr.		1955
Rev. E. Bradford Davis		1951
Norman J. Greene, Jr.		1953
James L. Gross III		1951
Dorothy B. Hansell		1950
Elva B. Hazlehurst		1945
David V. Hillman		1961
Ann W. Johnson		1947
Helen M. Justi		1957
Henry K. Justi		1957
Mary W. Kurtz		1943
Martha G. Lewis		1953
Alma C. Pearson		1961
Diane D. Quillman		1955
Susan C. Rakestraw		1936
Pamela M. Roberts		1962
H. Hansell Ritter		1953
Philip O. Ritter		1953
William B. Ritter		1951
Joyce P. Smith		1949
Nancy Spaeth		1960
Julia W. Stowe		1954
Alma D. Struble		1955
Helen J. Wallace		1957
Helen L. White		1961
Harriet Williams		1962
Margaret W. H. Wolcott		1956
Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr.		1956