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Directs the recipient (identified as "Correspondent") to appoint a member of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati from each county to keep the secretary informed of local affairs through regular correspondence. Through such correspondence...

GLC04379.20

[Officers of the Society of Cincinnati, State of South Carolina]

Lists officers and their positions.

GLC04379.21

[Note pertaining to the Society of Cincinnati]

Very briefly indicates that officers in the Continental Army instructed the society, while in cantonment on the Hudson River, 10 May 1783.

GLC04379.22

[Proposal for establishing the Society of Cincinnati and founding records]

Copy of a report on deliberations on "proposals for establishing a Society, upon principals therein mentioned, whose members shall be Officers of the American Army" during the cantonment of the army on the Hudson River. Includes a copy of the...

GLC04379.23

[Ink wash drawing of eagle medal for the Society of Cincinnati]

Ink wash drawing of the eagle medal L'Enfant proposed for the society. In his letter to Baron von Steuben at the founding convention, he described two medals and recommended the one drawn here (see GLC04379.23). The actual medal issued resembles...

GLC04379.24