Editing George Bancroft (section)

==Personal life==
===Family===
His first wife was Sarah Dwight, of a rich family in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]]; they married in 1827 and had two sons. She died in 1837.  He formed a second marriage with Mrs Elizabeth Davis Bliss, a widow with two children. Together they had a daughter.

In his later years Bancroft lived in [[Washington, D.C.]], summering at ''Rose Cliff'', [[Newport, Rhode Island]], the site where [[Rosecliff]] was later built.

===Organizations===
Bancroft was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1838, and also served as its Secretary of Domestic Correspondence from 1877 to 1880.<ref>Dunbar, B. (1987). ''Members and Officers of the American Antiquarian Society''. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society.</ref>

In 1841, Bancroft was elected as a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1841&year-max=1841&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-09|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

In New York, Bancroft was a founding member of the [[American Geographical Society]] and served as the society's first president for nearly three years (February 21, 1852 – December 7, 1854).<ref name="VCH4">Wright, John Kirtland 'The Years of Henry Grinnell', ''Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851–1951'' (1952) p. 17–18. — George Grady Press</ref>

Bancroft was elected an Associate Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1863.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 17, 2011}}</ref>

Bancroft served as the President of the American Historical Association, 1885-1886.<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Bancroft |url=https://www.historians.org/person/george-bancroft/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |publisher=American Historical Association |language=en-US}}</ref>