On February 20, 1897, eight local women met to plan for a proposed chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
The NSDAR National Board of Management had appointed Mrs. Daniel F. Wells organizing chapter regent on January 6, 1897. Mrs. Josiah Carpenter of Manchester, New Hampshire, was serving as State Regent of the New Hampshire DAR.
The members of the fledgling chapter considered naming the chapter after Jacob Elliot, the grandfather of the organizing regent. However, it was noted in the minutes of the first meeting that, "if the chapter took the name of some person and hereafter another chapter should be formed, calling itself the 'Exeter,' would not the second, on account of its name, have a certain prestige which would not belong to the first?"
And, since Exeter had been the capital of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War, it was decided to adopt "Exeter" as the name. Thus, Exeter Chapter NSDAR was formally organized on April 13, 1897. The Old Garrison House was the headquarters for a number of years.
The charter was authorized by the National Society in May of 1897, and signed by the members on June 15 of that year.
| Sarah J. J. Wells (Mrs. Daniel F.) | 1897-1898 |
| Evelyn M. Mack (Mrs. William B.) | 1898-1899 |
| Miss Sarah C. Clark | 1899-1902 |
| Miss Katherine L. Morrill | 1902-1903 |
| Emily J. Hooper (Mrs. George) | 1903-1904 |
| Eldora L. H. Walker (Mrs. Noah H.) | 1904-1906 |
| Grace D. Hilliard (Mrs. George W.) | 1906-1908 |
| Alice M. Batchelder (Mrs. James H.) | 1908-1910 |
| Miss Elizabeth H. Baker | 1910-1912 |
| Kate M. Hatch (Mrs. Clinton) | 1912-1914 |
| Mary E. Chase (Mrs. Samuel P.) | 1914-1916 |
| Betsey H. Quimbly (Mrs. David.) | 1916-1918 |
| Dr. Alice M. Chesley-Lambert | 1918-1920 |
| Mary H. Mifflin (Mrs. Charles W.) | 1920-1922 |
| Amy G. N. Selleck (Mrs. George H.) | 1922-1924 |
| Lena S. Day (Mrs. Herbert C.) | 1924-1927 |
| Miss Emily S. Spring | 1927-1929 |
| Dorothy M. Norwell (Mrs. Edward E.) | 1929-1931 |
| Sarah D. Marston (Mrs. N. Dearborn) | 1931-1933 |
| Ethel A. Dana (Mrs. Frank H.) | 1933-1935 |
| Miss Edith Green | 1935-1937 |
| Louise S. Towle (Mrs. Clinton A.) | 1937-1939 |
| Laura G. Wadleigh (Mrs. Laurence E.) | 1939-1941 |
| Eulalie Y. Pearson (Mrs. Oscar W.) | 1941-1943 |
| Maude B. Richards (Mrs. Edward H.) | 1943-1945 |
| Rosalie F. Hatch (Mrs. Albert R.) | 1945-1947 |
| Edith L. Brown (Mrs. Frank E.) | 1947-1949 |
| Mary C. Junkins (Mrs. F. Leroy) | 1949-1951 |
| Ethel A. Dana (Mrs. Frank H.) | 1951-1953 |
| Elizabeth J. Story (Mrs. George W., Jr.) | 1953-1955 |
| Edith L. Brown (Mrs. Frank E.) | 1955-1958 |
| Hester A. H. Jewell (Mrs. Charles E.) | 1958-1962 |
| Miss Martha G. Whitney | 1962-1965 |
| Mildred P. Wood (Mrs. Edward G.) | 1965-1968 |
| Madeline C. Smith (Mrs. Charles O.) | 1968-1971 |
| Katherine M. Bullard (Mrs. Scott A.) | 1971-1974 |
| Shirley B. Thivierge (Mrs. Raymond J.) | 1974-1977 |
| Barbara B. Cooper (Mrs. Robert A.) | 1977-1980 |
| Miss Martha G. Whitney | 1980-1986 |
| Mary P. Swart (Mrs. John W.) | 1986-1989 |
| Katherine M. Bullard (Mrs. Scott A.) | 1989-1992 |
| Bea W. Dalton (Mrs. Michael J.) | 1992-1995 |
| Jeanne G. Higgins (Mrs. John F.) | 1995-1999 |
| Shirley B. Thivierge (Mrs. Raymond J.) | 1999-2001 |
| Ann T. Morton (Mrs. Donald J.) | 2001-2004 |
| Halcyon Hobbs Springer (Mrs. Charles F.) | 2004-2007 |
| Wendy Stanley Jones (Mrs. H. Turner, III) | 2007 -2010 |
| Cyndee O. Anderson (Mrs. Brian J.) | 2010-2013 |
| Susan W. O'Leary (Mrs. Kevin J.) | 2013-2016 |
| Carol A. Welch (Mrs. David A.) | 2016-2016 |
| Linda D. Biagini (Mrs. Peter M.) | 2017-2023 |
| Jane Valpey Dyer (Mrs. John H.) | 2023- |
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