• Cherish and maintain the memory of the lives and works of colonial clergy of America
• Perpetuate their spirit and the religious freedom which they sought in the New World
• Keep in remembrance the churches which they served
• Promote the fitting celebration of anniversaries, both of colonial ecclesiastical bodies and churches and events in the lives of their clergy.
• Collect and preserve documents, histories, biographical sketches and memorials pertaining to the colonial clergy of America and the parishes which they served
• Promote friendship and the descendants of colonial clergy.

The Society has published Pedigrees of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, which is updated at intervals. It has authorized the publication of a series of books on the colonial clergy, written by the late Frederick Lewis Weiss.