E 202 3 • ** ^ v * n ^ i Efc<«v_ • 4 o c ^ . V . ^ ^^^^w^^- €t@- THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTION GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, AS FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WHICH GAYE INDEPENDENCE TO AMERICA. TOGETHER WITH THE RULES AND BY-LAWS STATE SOCIETY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, AS ADOPTED JULY 4 til, 1848. PUBLISHED BY ORDER, FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. CHARLESTON, S. C. PRINTED BY WALKER AND J A M.E S , ;eis- 1849. sir THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTION GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE W CINCINNATI AS FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WHICH GAVE INDEPENDENCE TO AMERICA. TOGETHER WITH THE RULES AND BY-LAWS OF THE STATE SOCIETY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, AS ADOPTED JIL.Y 4tl», 1848. PUBLISHED BY ORDER, FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. CHARLESTON, S. C. PRINTED BY WALKER AND JAMES. 1849. I •S&3 PROCEEDINGS GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, WITH THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTION OF THE ORDER. CANTONMENT OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, ON HUDSON'S RIVER, 10th MAY, 1783, Proposals for establishing a Society, upon principles therein mentioned, whose members shall be officers of the American Army, having been communicated to the several regiments of the respective lines, they appointed an officer from each, who, in conjunction with the general officers, should take the same into consideration, at their meeting this day, at which the Honorable Major General Baron de Steuben, the senior officer present, was pleased to preside. The proposals being read, iully considered, paragraph by paragraph, and the amendments agreed to, Major-General Knox, Brigadier-General Hand, Brigadier-General Huntingdon, and Captain Shaw, were chosen to revise the same, and prepare a copy to be laid before this Assembly at their next meeting, to be holden at Major-General Baron de Steuben's quarters, on Tuesday, the 13th instant. Tuesday, 13th May, 1783. The representatives of the American Army being assembled, *reeably to adjournment, the plan for establishing a Society, whereof the officers of the American Army are to be members, is accepted, and is as follows, viz: "It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, in the disposition of human affairs, to cause the separation of the colonies of North- America from the domination of Great Britain, and after a bloody conflict of eight years, to establish them free, independent, and sovereign States, connected by alliances founded on reciprocal advantage, with some of the great princes and powers of the earth. " To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this vast event, as the mutual friendships which have been formed under the pressure of common danger, and, in many instances, cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the American Army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, associate, constitute and combine themselves into one Society of Friends, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and, in failure thereof, the collateral branches who may be judged worthy of becoming its supporters and members. " The officers of the American Army having generally been taken from the citizens of America, possess high veneration for the character of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, and being resolved to follow his example, by returning to their citizenship, they think they may with propriety denominate themselves the Society of the Cincinnati. " The following principles shall be immutable, and form the basis of the Society of the Cincinnati. "An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing. "An unalterable determination to promote and cherish between the respective States, that union and national honor so essentially necessary to their happiness, and the future dignity of the American empire. "To render permanent the cordial affection subsisting among the officers: This spirit will dictate brotherly kindness in all tnings, and particularly extend to the most substantial acts of beneficence, according to the ability of the Society, towards those officers and their families, who unfortunately may be under the necessity of receiving it. "The General Society will, for the sake of frequent commu- nications, be divided into State Societies, and these again into such Districts as shall be directed by the State Society. " The Societies of the Districts to meet as often as shall be agreed upon by the State Society, those of the State on the fourth day of July, annually, or oftener, if they shall find it expedient, and the General Society on the first Monday in May, annually, so long as they shall deem it necessary, and afterwards, at least once in every three years. "At each meeting, the principles of the institut.on will be fully considered, and the best measures to promote them adopted. "The State Societies will consist of all the members resident in each State respectively; and any member removing from one State to another, is to be considered in all respects, as belonging to the Society of the Slate in which he shall actually reside. " The State Societies to have a President. Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer, to be chosen annually, by a majority of votes at the State meeting. "Each State meeting shall write annually, or oftener, if necessary, a circular letter, to the other State Societies, noting whatever they may think worthy of observation, respecting the good of the Society, or the general union of the States, and giving information of the officers chosen for the current year: copies of these letters shall be regularly transmitted to the Secretary-General of the Society, who' will record them in a book to be assigned for that purpose. "The State Society will regulate every thing respecting itself and the Societies of its districts consistent with the general maxims of the Cincinnati, judge of the qualifications of the members who may be proposed, and expel any member, who, by a conduct inconsistent with a gentleman and a man of honor; or by an opposition to the interests of the community in general, or the Society in particular, may render himself unworthy to continue a member. "In order to form funds which may be respectable, and assist the unfortunate, each officer shall deliver to the Treasurer of the State Society, one month's pay, which shall remain for ever to the use of the State Society; the interest only of which, if necessary, to be appropriated to the relief of the unfortunate. "Donations may be made by persons not of the Society, and by members of the Society, for the express purpose of forming permanent funds for the use of the State Society, and the in- terests of these donations appropriated in the same manner as that of the month's pay. " Monies, at the pleasure of each member, may be subscribed in the Societies of the Districts, or the State Societies, for the relief of the unfortunate members, or their widows and orphans, to be appropriated by the State Society only. " The meeting of the General Society shall consist of its officers and a representation from each State Society, in number not exceeding five, whose expenses shall be borne by their respective State Societies. "In the general meeting, the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer Generals, shall be chosen to serve until the next meeting. " The circular letters which have been written by the respective State Societies to each other, and their particular laws, shall be read and considered, and all measures concerted which may conduce to the general intendment of the Society. " It is probable that some persons may make donations to the General Society, for the purpose of establishing funds for the further comfort of the unfortunate, in which case, such donations must be placed in the hands of the Treasurer General, the interests only of which to be disposed of, if necessary, by the general meeting. " All the officers of the American Army, as well those who have resigned with honor, after three years service in the capacity of officers, or who have been deranged by the resolutions of Congress, upon the several reforms of the Army, as those who shall have continued to the end of the war, have the right to become parties to this institution; provided that they subscribe one month's pay, and sign their names to the general rules, in their respective State Societies, those who are present with the Army immediately, and others within six months after the army shall be disbanded, extraordinary cases excepted; the rank, time of service, resolution of Congress by which any have been deranged, and place of residence, must be added to each name, and as a testimony of affection to the memory and the offspring of such officers as have died in the service, their eldest male branches shall have the same right of becoming members, as the children of the -actual members of the Societ) r . " Those officers who are foreigners, not resident in any of the States, will have their names enrolled by the Secretary General, and are to be considered as members in the Societies of any of the States in which they may happen to be. "And as there are, and will at all times be, men in the respective States eminent for their abilities and patriotism, whose views may be directed to the same laudable objects with those of the Cincinnati, it shall be a rule to admit such characters, as honorary members of the Society, for their own lives only: Provided always, that the number of honorary members, in each State, does not exceed a ratio of one to four of the officers or their descendants. "Each State Society shall obtain a list of its members, and at the first annual meeting, the State Secretary shall have engrossed, on parchment, two copies of the institution of the Society, which every member present shall sign, and the Sec- retary shall endeavor to procure the signature of every absent member; one of those lists to be transmitted to the Secretary- General, to be kept in the archives of the Society, and the other to remain in the hands of the State Secretary. From the State lists, the Secretary-General must make out, at the first general meeting, a complete list of the whole Society, with a copy of which he will furnish each State Secretary. "The Society shall have an Order, by which its members shall be known and distinguished, which shall be a medal of* gold, of a proper size to receive the emblems, and suspended by a deep blue ribbon two inches wide, edged with white, descriptive of the union of France and America, viz: THE PRINCIPAL FIGURE CI NCINN ATUS, THREE SENATORS PRESENTING HIM WITH A SWORD AND OTHER MILITARY ENSIGNS— ON A FIELD IN THE BACK GROUND, HIS WIFE STANDING AT THE DOOR OF THEffi COTTAGE— NEAR IT A PLOUGH AND INSTRUMENTS OF HUSBANDRY, ROUND THE WHOLE, OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REMPUBLICAM. ON THE REVERSE, SUN RISING— A CITY WITH OPEN GATES AND VESSELS ENTERING THE PORT— FAME CROWNING CINCINNATUS WITH A WREATH INSCRIBED VIRTUTIS PRiEMIUM. BELOW, HANDS JOINED, SUPPORTING A HEART; WITH THE MOTTO, ESTO PERPETUA. ROUND THE WHOLE, SOCIETAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA. A. D. 1783. The society, deeply impressed with a sense of the generous assistance this country has received from France and desirous of perpetuating the friendships which have been formed, and so happily subsisted, between the officers of the allied forces, in the prosecution of the war; direct that the President 9 general transmit, as soon as may be, to each of the characters hereafternamed,a medal containing the Order of the society,viz. •His Excpllency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary , His Excellency the Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipoten- tiary, Their Excellencies the Count de Estaing, the Count de Grasse, the Count de Barras, the Chevalier de Touches, Admirals and Commanders in the Nam/. His Excellency the Count de Rociiambeau, Commander-in- Chief, And the Generals and Colonels of his army; and acquaint them, that the society does itself the honor to consider them members. Resoloed, That a copy of the aforegoing institution be given to the senior officer of each state line, and that the officers of the respective state lines sign their names to the same, in manner and form following, viz. "We the subscribers, officers of the American Army, do hereby voluntarily become parties to the foregoing institution, and do bind ourselves to observe, and be governed by the principles therein contained. For the performance whereof we do solemnly pledge to each other our sacred honor. Hone in the Cantonment on Hudson's River, in the year, 1783." That the members of the society, at the time of subscribing their names to the institution, do also sign a draft on the pay- master-general, in the following terms (the regiments to do it regimentally, and the generals and other officers not belong- ing to regiments, each for himself, individually) viz. "7o John Pierce, Esquire, Pay-Master-General to the Army of the United States, Sir, — Please to pay to treasurer for the state association of the Cincinnati, or his 2 10 order, one month's pay of our several grades respectively, and deduct the same from the balance which shall be found due to us on the final liquidation of our accounts : for which this shall be your warrant." That the members of the several state societies assemble as soon as may be, for the choice of their president and other officers — and that the Presidents correspond together, and appoint a meeting of the officers who may be chosen for each state, in order to pursue such further measures as may be judged necessary. That the general officers, and the officers delegated, to represent the several corps of the army, subscribe to the institution of the general society, for themselves and their constituents, in the manner and form before prescribed. That General Heath, General Baron de Steuben, and General Knox, be a committee to wait on His Excellency the Commander- in-chief, with a copy of the institution, and request him to honor the society by placing his name at the head of it. That major general Heath, second in command in this army, be, and he hereby is, desired to transmit copies of the institution, with the proceedings thereon, to the commanding officer of the Southern Army, the senior officer in each state, from Pennsylvania to Georgia, inclusive, and to the comman- ding officer of the Rhode Island line, requesting them to com- municate the same to the officers under their several com- mands, and to take such measures as may appear to them ne- cessary for expediting the establishment of their state societies, and sending a delegation to represent them in the first general meeting to be holden on the first Monday in May, 1784. The meeting then adjourned without day. Cantonment of the American Army, 19th of June, 1783. At a meeting of the general officers, and the gentlemen delegated by the respective regiments, as a convention for establishing the society of the Cincinnati, held by the request of the president, at which were present — 11 Major -General Baron de Steuben, President. Major-Genei al Howe, Major-General Knox, Brigadier-General Patterson, Brigadier-General Hand, Brigadier-General Huntingdon. Brigadier-General Putnam, Colonel Webb, Lieutenant- Colonel Huntingdon, Major Pettengjll, Lieutenant Whiting, Colonel H. Jackson, Captain Shaw, Lieutenant-Colonel Hull, Lieutenant- Colonel Maxwell, Colonel Cortlandt. General baron de Steuben, acquainted the convention that he had, agreeably to their request, at the last meeting, transmitted to His Excellency the chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary from the court of France, a copy of the institution of the society of the Cincinnati, with their vote respecting his excellency, and the other characters therein mentioned ; and that his excellency had returned an answer declaring his acceptance of the same, and expressing the grateful sense he entertains of the honor conferred on himself, and the other gentlemen of the French nation, by this act of the convention. Resolved, That the letter of the chevalier de la Luzerne be recorded in the proceedings of this day, and deposited in the archives of the society, as a testimony of the high sense this convention entertains of the ho'nor done to the society by his becoming a member thereof. The letter is as follows : PhiladelpJiie, le 3 Jimj,1783. "Monsieur le Baron, "J'ai recti avec be.aucoup de reconnoissance les statuts de l'orrde respectable que messieurs les officiers de la'mee Americaine vienn- 12 ent de fonder: si le courage, la patience & toutes les vertus que cette brave arraee a si souvent deployees dans le cours de cette guerre, pouvoient jamais etre oublies, ce monument seul les rapelleroit. "J'ose vous assurer, monsieur, que tous les officers de ma nation, que vous avez bien voulu admettre dans votre societe, en seront infiniment honores ; je vous prie d'etre bien persuade que je sens, en mon particulier, bien vivement l'honneur que m'ont fait messieurs les officiers de l'armee en daignant penser a moi dans cette occasion. Je compte aller rendre mes devoirs a son excellence le general Washington, aussitot que le traite definitif sera signe, et j'aurais 1' honneur de les assurer de vive voix de ma respectueuse reconnois- sance. "Je saisis avec un grand empressement cette occasion de vous renouveller les sentiments du tres paifait et ties respectueux attach- ment avec lesquels j'ai l'honneur d'etre, Monsieur le Baron, votre Ires humble, & tres obeissant serviteur, Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron de Steuben, Major-ge'nc'ral au service des Etals Unis, au Qitarlier General." Philadelphia, 3d June, 1783. SIR, "I have received, with much gratitude, the institution of the respectable order that the officers of the American Army have founded ; if courage, patience, and all the virtues that this brave army have so often displayed in the course of this war could ever be forgotten, this monument alone should recal them. I dare assure you, sir, that all the officers of my nation, that you have been pleased to admit in your society, will be infinitely honored by it. I pray you to be fully persuaded I feel, for my part, in the most lively manner, the honor the officers of the army have done me, in deigning to think of me upon this occasion. I expect to pay my respects to his excellency General Washington, as soon as the definitive treaty shall be signed, 13 and I shall have the honor of assuring them, personally, of my respectful acknowledgment. I seize with great eagerness, this occasion of expressing to you the sentiments of the most perfect and most respectful attachment with which I have the honor to be, Sir, your very humble, and very obedient servant, Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. To Baron de Steuben, Major-General in the service of the United States, Head Quarters " The Baron having also communicated a letter from major l'Enfant, enclosing a design for the medal and order, contain- ing the emblems of the institution. Resolved, That the bald eagle, carrying the emblem on its breast, be established as the order of the society; and that the ideas of major l'Enfant, respecting it and the manner of its being worn by the members, be adopted. That the order be of the same size, and in every other respect conformable to the said design, which for that purpose, is certified by the Baron de Steuben, president of this convention, and to be deposited in the archives of the society, as the original, from which all copies are to be made. Also that silver medals, not exceeding the size of a Spanish milled dollar, with the emblems, as designed by major l'Enfant, and certified by the president, be given to each and every member of the society, together with a diploma, on parchment, whereon shall be impressed the exact figures of the order and medal, as above mentioned, any thing in the original institution, respecting gold medals, to the contrary notwithstanding. Major l'Enfant's letter is as follows : "Philadelphie, le 10 Juin, 1763. Mon General, Aussitot apres la reception de votre lettre en date du 20 Mai, la- quelle ne m'est parvenu que le 7, ayant ete par hazard a la poste, je me suis occupe des projets de la medaille. Je vous envoie les desseins de deux faces, que j'ai faits, en grand, a fin qu'on puisse 14 mieux juger de l'ensemble. Lors de l'execution on ]a reduira a la grandeur convenable, qui pour peu que l'on exige de precision dansle dessein, ne doit pas etre plus petite qu'un dollar, le sujet se trouvant trop complique pour que les details puissent etre apercus sous une plus petite dimension. Je ne l'ai point faite ovale, ainsi que vous me le demandez, vu que cette forme est peu propre a une medaille ; d'ailleurs, on pourra toujours la faire au moment de l'execution, si on persiste absolument a vouloir porter I'ordre sous cette forme, a laquelle je crois que tout autre seroit preferable; ainsi que je crois et espere que vous en serez bien persuade, & ferez en sorte d'en convaincre les personnes qui composent le comite relatif a cette institution, auxquelles je vous prie de communiquer les observations suivantes. La medaille, ronde ou ovale, n'est considered dans les differents etats de l'Europe que comme une recompense d'artiste, d'artisan, ou comme une signe de communaute de fabriquants ou societe religieuse — en outre, l'usage abusif que Ton en fait, particulierement en Allemagne & en Ilalie, d'ou il arrive en Fiance, des baladins, des musiciens, decores de cette maniere, rend necessaire de distinguer cet ordre par une forme qui lui soit particuliere, et puisse, en honorant celui qui en sera decore, remplir le double object de se faire respecter par son simple aspect, de ceux memes qui ne seront pas apurtee d'en detailler les differents empreintes. Ce n'est pas que je croie qu'une forme, ou une autre changera l'opinion d'un peuple republicain accoutume a penser, mais je dis, que dans une institution pareille, le premier but doit etre de se rendre respectable a tons les peuples du mon r 'e # ; et que ce n'est qu' en parlant aux yeu\ qu'on attire l'attention du vulgaire, qu'il y a des prejujjes d'habitude qui ne peuvent etre detruits — qu'un homme qualifies et deji decore en Europe ne portera pas une meJaille, ou, si flaite de recevoir une marque de distinction d'une societe respec. table, il la portait, ce seroit d'une maniere peu propre a faire accrediter la valeur de I'ordre. Qu'au contraire, en lui donnant une forme nouvelle en particulier, ce sera ajouter a sa valeur reelle, celle de la rendre recommendable, en engageant ceux qui en seront decores a. en faire parade de pair avec les autres ordres militaire, ce qui est le plus sur moyen de la mettre d'abord de niveau avec eux. Le bald aigle qui est particulier a ce continent et qui se distingue a celui des autres climats, par sa tete et sa queue blanche, m'a paru meriter de l'attention. 15 Je vous envoie deux essais que j'ai faits ; je desire que Pun des deux puisse etre adoptc au lieu et place de la medaille, Datis l'un, je fais l'aigle supportant une etoile, ;\ treize pointes, dans le centre de la quelle est renfermee la figure de la medaille avec les inscrip- tions, tant sur la face que sur le revers. On pourroit ajouter une legende dans les series et autour du col de l'aigle, avec une inscription particuliere, ou bien y transferer celle du contour de la medaille. Dans l'autre, j'ai fait l'aigle simplement portant sur sa poitr . la figure de la medaille, avdc une legende dans ses serres et autour du col, laquelle lui repasse par derriere le dos pour soutenir le revers. Je prelererois le dernier, en ce qu'il n'a rapport a aucun ordre et porte avec lui un characture distinctif et ne seroit pas fort dispendieux a faire executer. Le premier menee, quoique plus complique ne revieneroit pas aussi cher qu'on pourroit ie penser, toute fois qu'on en chargeroit des personnes capables de 1'exeeuter ; ce qui ne peut avoir lieu non plus que relativement a la medaille qu' en l'envoyant en Europe ce qui n'exigeroit pas beaucoup de terns, et ne seroit pas si dispendieux, que d'en confier l'cxecution a des personnes incapables. Une medaille est une monument qui passe a la posterite, rt par consequent il est necessaire qu'elle suit poitce au dogrC- de perfection possible dans le siocle ou elle est frappee. Or, bien frapper une medaille est une chose qui demande de Thabitude et un bon coin, or il n'y a ici ni balancier propre a cette besogne ni gens capables de faire un bon coin, je me chargerois volontiers de recornmender 1'execution de la medaille, de l'aigle ou ordre, a gens capables de 1'execution a Paris. Bien loin que je propose de changer la medaille ovale en un aigle sur lequel seroit empreint cette medaille, je ne pretends pas dire qu, ils ne savent pas frapper des medailles. Au conlraire, voici qu'elle est mon idee a ce sujet. " On pourroit faire frapper ici des medailles d'argent aux frais communs de la societe, et en distribuer une a chacun de ses membres comme une titreadapte a la patente de parchemiri, sur laquelle il sera aussi apropos de graver la figure de la medaille, la forme de l'ai°-]e ou de l'etoile, avec sa plus grande dimension, detaillant les couleurs en soignant de s'y conformer, laissant la liberte aux chevaliers que s'en pourvoyeront a leurs depens, de la faire de tel metal, et aussi petite que possible, sans alteration d'aucun des emblemes. II ne me paroit pas non plus a propos que les chevaliers honoraires portassent 16 1'ordre pareil aux chevaliers do droit. II faudroit qu'on signifat qu'ils portassent la medaille, ou l'etoile, ou l'aigle en sautoir, et les chevaliers a la 3;tie. boutoniere. Mnn general, ces sont les remarques que je vous prie ds faire traduire, et de les soummetre a I'opinion generale. Je vous serais oblige de me faire savoir quelle issue cette lettre aura & quelle sera la decision qu'on en donnera. J'ai, &c. &c. &c. L'ENFANT. M N. B. La tete et la queue de l'aigle seroient d'argent ou emaillees en blanc, le coips et les ailes d'or, la medaille sur sa poitrine et sur son dos, emaillee en couleur de meine que la legende. On pourroit y ajouter des branches de laurier et de chene dans les ailes, pour lors qu'on emailleroit en vert: Petoile du medaillbn seroit pointee en or, ou emaillee bleu et blanc, ceux qui voudroient faire le depense pour- raient avoir en diamant tout ce qui est blanc. Le ruban seroit moire connne celui de tout les autres ordres. "Philadelphia, 10th June, 1783. My General, Immediately on receiving your letter of the 20th May, which I met by accident at the Post-Office, on the 7th inst., I set my- self about the plan of the medal. I send you both faces of the design, which I have made large so that you may better judge of them. In the execution they can be reduced to a convenient size, which, on account of the precision required in the design ought not to be less than a dollar, the subject being too complex to admit of its being properly detailed in a smaller compass. " I have not made it oval, agreeably to your desire, as such a form is not proper for a medal; besides, it can be done in the execution, if the idea should be persisted in of having the order in that form, to which, however, I think any other preferable. I also believe and hope that you will be persuaded of this, and endeavor to convince the gentlemen of it, who compose the committee for forming the institution, and to whom, I beg you to communicate the following observations. 17 " A medal, whether round or oval, is considered in the different States of Europe, only as the reward of the laborer and the artist, or as a sign of a manufacturing community, or religious society; besides, the abusive custom prevailing particularly in Germany and Italy, of sending to France, mountebanks, dancers, and musicians, ornamented in this manner, renders it necessary to distinguish this order by a form which shall be peculiar to itself, and which will answer the two-fold purpose of honoring those invested with it, and making itself respected, for its simplicity, by such as may be in a situation, minutely to examine its different parts. "Not that I suppose one form or another will change the opinion of a republican people, accustomed to think; I only say, that in an institution of this sort, the main design should be to render it respectable to every body, and that it is only in appealing to the senses that you can engage the attention of the common people, who have certain habitual prejudices which cannot be destroyed. A gentleman already invested with any European order, would be unwilling to carry a medal, but, if flattered by receiving a mark of distinction from a respectable Society, he should do it, the manner of it would by no means increase the value of the order. On the contrary* giving it a new and particular form will be adding a recom- mendation to its real value, and engage those invested with it to wear it in the same manner as their other military orders, which is the surest means of putting it at once upon a footing with them. "The bald eagle, which is peculiar to this continent, and is distinguished from those of other climates, by its white head and tail, appears to me to deserve attention. I send you two essays which I have made, and desire one of them may be adopted instead of the medal. In one, I make the eagle supporting a star with thirteen points, in the centre of which is the figure of the medal, with its inscriptions, as well in front as on the reverse. A legend might be added in the claws and go round the neck of the Eagle, with a particular inscription, or the contour of the medal transferred 3 18 there. In the other I have made simply the eagle, supporting on its breast the figure of the medal, with a legend in his claws and about the neck, which passes behind and sustains the reverse. I would prefer the latter, as it does not resemble any other order, and bears a distinct character; nor will it be expensive in its execution. The first device, although more complex, would not be so dear as people might imagine, especially if the execution ol it should be committed to skilful persons, which would not be the case any more than with the medal, but by sending it to Europe, where it would not take up a great deal of time, nor be so expensive as to trust the execution of it here to workmen not well acquainted with the business. " A medal is a monument to be transmitted to posterity; and, consequently, it is necessary that it be executed to the highest degree of perfection possible in the age in which ft is struck. Now, to strike a medal well, is a matter that requires practice and a good die; and as there is not here, either a press proper for this work, nor people who can make a good die, I would willingly undertake to recommend the execution of the medal, the eagle, or the order, to such persons in Paris, as are capable of executing it to perfection. "So far from proposing to change the oval medal into an eagle, on which should be impressed the medal, I do not pretend to say medals cannot be made; on the contrary, my idea of the subject is, that silver medals should be struck, at the common expense of the Society, and distributed, one to each member, as an appendage to a diploma of parchment, whereon it would be proper to stamp the figure of the medal, the eagle, or the star, in its full dimensions, and properly colored, enjoining on the members to conform to it, though leaving them the liberty, provided it be at their own expense, of having it made of such metal and as small as they please, without altering any of the emblems. It seems to me by no means proper, that the honorary members should wear the order in the same manner as the original members; it would be necessary that they should wear the medal, the star, or the eagle, round their necks, and the original members at the third button-hole. 19 "These remarks, I beg you, my General, to have translated and submitted to the gentlemen concerned. I shall be obliged to you to let me know the issue of this letter, and their decision upon it. I have, &c. &c. &o. L'ENFANT. ",N. B. The head and tail of the eagle should be silver, or enamelled in white, the body and wings gold, the medal on its breast and back enamelled in the same color as the legend; sprigs of laurel and oak might be added in the wings and enamelled in green; the star should be pointed in gold, or enamelled in blue and white; those who would be at the expense, might, instear of white, have diamonds. The ribband, as is customary in all other orders, should be wav'd. Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be transmitted, by the President, to major L'Evfant, for his care and ingenuity in preparing the aforementioned designs, and that he be acquainted that they cheerfully embrace his offer of assistance, and request a continuance of his attention in carrying the designs into execution, for which purpose the President is desired to correspond with him. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief be requested to officiate as President-General, until the first general meeting, to be held in May next. That a Treasurer-General and a Secretary-General be bal- lotted for, to officiate in like manner. The ballots being taken, Major-General M'Dougall was elected Treasurer-General, and Major-Gencral Knox, Secretary General, who are hereby requested to accept said appointments. Resolved, That all the proceedings of this Convention, including the institution of the Society, be recorded (from the original papers in his possession) by Captain Shaw, who at the first meeting was requested to act as Secretary, and that the same signed by the President and Secretary together with the original papers, be given into the hands of Major-General Knox, Secretary-General to the Society; and that Captain 20 North, Aid-de-Camp to the baron de Steuben, and acting Secretary to him as President, sign the said records. The dissolution of a very considerable part of the army, since the last meeting of this Convention, having rendered the attendance for some of its members impracticable, and the necessity of some temporary arrangements, previous to the first meeting of the General Society, being so strikingly obvious the Convention found itself constrained to make those before mentioned, which they have done with the utmost diffidence of themselves, and relying entirely on the candor of their constituents to make allowance for the measure: The piincipal objects of its appointment being thus accomplished, the mem- bers of this Convention think fit to dissolve the same, and it is hereby dissolved accordingly. EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GBNEEAL SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, HELD IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,' IN MAY, 1800. Tuesday, May 6, 1800. It was moved by Mr. Bingham, and seconded by General Bloomfield, That a respectful testimonial to the memory of General Washington be entered on the records of the General Society of the Cincinnati, which was unanimously agreed to, and Mr. Bingham, Major Pinckney and General Dayton, were appointed a committee to prepare and report the same. Wednesday, May 7. 1800. Mr. Bingham, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported the following testimonial of respect to the memory of General Washington, which was twice read, unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be entered on the records of the Society, as the first act of the present general meeting after its organization. Under the most profound impression of veneration and affection, the Society of the Cincinnati, at a general meeting, are called upon to express the mournful tribute of their sorrow, at that awful dispensation of Providence, which has recently removed from their councils, their much revered and lamented President-General, The arduous, though successful struggle which terminated in establishing the liberties of our country, and in which they fought under his banners, and shared with him the dangers and toils of the field, attached him to this Society by ties of the most intimate and endearing nature. His valor and prudence seemed to control the events of war, led the ' 22 American Armies to victory, and achieved the independence of their country. Whilst mingling their tears with those of their fellow-citizens, they are naturally impelled to pour out the effusions of a deep regret, for the irreparable loss which they have sustained. But it is not only in their relationship to this illustrious character, as soldiers, that the Society of the Cincinnati have cause to deplore his loss. When the storm of war had ceased to rage, and the blessings of peace had been restored, their country was suffering under the weakness of a confederation, which threatened the existence of that union, which their joint efforts in arms had so essentially contributed to establish. With his auspicious co-operation, a constitution was formed calculated by its wisdom and energy, to redeem us from that prostrate state, to which we had been reduced, and to restore that reputation which our country had lost, from the imbecility of the old system. The administration of the government was committed to his care, and his country will ever hold in grateful remembrance, the inflexible virtue and fortitude,with which he conducted its affairs, and saved it from the effects of domestic faction and foreign intrigue. After a second retirement from the active scenes of public life, in which his merits as a statesman, rivalled his fame as a soldier, his country at the approach of danger, again required his services. The crisis was important, and the situation delicate. A nation which had mingled its blood with ours, in the defence of our liberties, had now assumed a hostile appearance. A war from this unexpected quarter threatened the peace of our country. Washington, who never hesitated when urged by a sense of duty, obeyed the call of the government. He again abandoned his beloved retirement, hazarded a reputation, consummate in every point of view, and assumed the command of the armies. His military companions who had frequently witnessed the magnanimity of his conduct in seasons of adversity, as well as of triumph, felt the full force of their country's appeal to arms, whilst Washington was their leader. 23 In this momentous crisis of our affairs, by the inscrutable decrees of heaven, he was snatched from America and the world. Under this pressure of calamity, which more peculiarly operates upon the sensibilities of this Society, their only consolation is derived from the animating reflection, that although he is summoned to the enjoyment of the happy destinies of a future state, the bright example of his virtues and talents will still survive, and the inheritance of his name prove a future incentive to heroes and legislators, who will strive to emulate his fame, and merit the glory he has acquired. OFFICERS of the General Society of the Cincinnati, elected at the first meeting of delegates from the several state societies, held at philadelphia, in MAY, 1784. His Excellency Gen. G. WASHINGTON, Maj. Gen. HORATIO GATES, Maj. Gen. HENRY KNOX, Brig. Gen. O. H. WILLIAMS, President General. Vice-President General. Secretary General. Assistant Secretary General. OFFICERS ELECTED AT AN ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, IN MAY,1800, AFTER THE DEMISE OF His EXCELLENCY, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. Maj. Gen. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Maj. Gen C. C PINCKNEY, Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON, Doctor NATHAN DORSEY, Brig. Gen. W. M'PHERSON, President General. Vice-President General. Secretary General. Assistant Secretary General. Treasurer General. OFFICERS ELECTED AT THE LAST TRIENNIAL MEETING, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, IN MAY, 1805, AFTER THE DEMISE OF MaJOR GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Maj. Gen. C. C. PINCKNEY, Maj. Gen. HENRY KNOX, Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON, Maj. WILLIAM D. BELL. Brig. Gen. W. M'PHERSON, President General. Vies- President General. Secretary General. Assistant Secretary General- Treasurer General. 25 EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, AT A QUARTERLY MEETING, HELD ON MONDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1805. Resolved unanimously, That this Society do highly approve of the Eulogy on the character of the late Major-General Moultrie, voluntarily presented by a member, through the Secretary, and read before them; and that the same be entered on the Journals, as a mark of respect due from this Society, to their late venerable President. EULOGY. "The twenty-seventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and five, will long be remembered with interest by every virtuous citizen of South-Carolina. On that day, deeply regretted by every individual who had sense to appre- ciate, and gratitude to acknowledge the pre-eminence of his patriotic virtues, died in the seventy-fifth year of his age, the venerable Major General William Moultrie, who by uniform suffrage, had presided over this Society, from its first institu- tion. As a revolutionary character, his steadiness in principle, his valor in the field, were particularly conspicuous. As a soldier, it was his fortune to check with an effect that paral- ized every subsequent exertion, the first efforts of a powerful and inveterate foe, for the subjugation of his country. Bold as Leonidas, he defended the straight committed to his charge, against a superiority of force, that had been deemed irresistible, and more fortunate than the Spartan hero, lived in honorable old age under the shade of his laurels, to share with a grate- ful nation, the liberty his successful exertions had so happily contributed to establish. As a patriot it was equally his 4 26 glory, disdainfully to reject the bribes of a nation, who re- peatedly foiled by his valor, hoped with better success to^ corrupt his integrity, and like another Fabricius, to show to the admiring world, how insignificant the power of gold, to shake the principles of a heart, warmed with the genuine glow of heaven-born liberty. In private life, his disposition was frank, liberal, sincere; his manners simple and conciliating. Duplicity and disguise, were odious to a nature fixed on the firmest basis of candor and truth. As a husband, father, master, he was kind, gentle, most indulgent; in short, as has been said of a great statesman and distinguished patriot, he was every thing to his family, but what he gave up to his country. "When in future ages, men shall seek examples of distin- guished worth and excellence, fame with delight shall tell the unshaken faith, and gallant deeds of Moultrie. " While as brother soldiers we offer this sincere, though inadequate tribute of respect to his memory, it is with pleasure we reflect, that the Artillery, Cavalry and several volunteer corps of the city, together with a considerable concourse of the most respectable and patriotic of our citizens, attended his body to the grave, testifying their high respect for his virtues, and unfeigned sorrow, for the event which deprived his country of one of its most distinguished and estimable public characters." OFFICERS OF THE SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, ELECTED AT THEIR FIRST MEETING AT CHARLESTON, ON THE 29TH AUGUST, 1783. Major General WILLIAM MOULTRIE, Brigadier General ISAAC HUGER, Major THOMAS PINCKNEY, Captain CHARLES LINING, Lieutenant JAMES KENNEDY, Lieutenant SAMUEL BEEKMAN, ) JOHN SANDFORD DART, Esq., J' President. Vice-President. Secretary, Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer, Stewards. STANDING COMMITTEE APPOINTED ON THE 6tH OCTOBER, 1783. COLONEL CHARLES C. PINCKNEY. Colonel Bernard Beekman, Lieutenant Colonel W. Washington, Major Robert Forsyth, Captain Felix Warley, Lieutenant Charles Brown, Doctor David Oliphant. IttJLES AND BY-LAWS OF THE STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, ADOPTED ON THE 4tla JULY, 1848, UNDER ITS NEW ORGANIZATION, BEING NOW COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF DE- SCENDANTS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY • OF THE UNITED STATES. I. The Officers composing the State Society of the Cincinnati of South-Carolina, having assembled on the twenty-ninth day August, and on the thirteenth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and maturely considered the propositions and rules transmitted to Major General Moultrie, by Majors General Heath and Steuben respectively, and dated on the twentieth day of May and day of June of the same year, acceded to them with this reservation, that if any of the said propositions or rules should by any construction, be held obligatory on the Society to interfere in any manner whatsoever, with the civil polity of their own, or any other of the United States, or of the United States in General, the members thereof will not hold themselves in any respect bound by them, prizing too highly the civil liberties of their country, and their own rights as citizens, to consent that a military association should dictate to the civil authority. II. The Society are desirous to maintain the benevolent and charitable principles of the original institution, and for that purpose adopt this Rule: That whenever a member, his widow or descendants, shall 30 need the aid of the Society, application shall be made in the first place, to the Standing Committee, who shall examine into the merits thereof, and report the facts to the Society, together with their opinion, and such relief may be granted as the Society shall think fit. III. There shall be four general meetings of the Society in a year, viz : on the fourth day of July, which shall be considered as the anniversary of the Society, when the members shall dine together, gratefully commemorating it as the day of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States, and the commencement of the political existence of their citizens, as a free people; on the twenty-second of February, memorably distinguished as the birth-day of Washington, the father of his country, when the members shall also dine together; on the nineteenth of April, being the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, so honorable to the first efforts of the American arms; and on the nineteenth day of October, when the cap- ture of Cornwallis crowned them with the most brilliant success; and should any of them fall on Sunday, then the meeting shall be celebrated on the day following. And there shall be one special meeting on the evening of the third day of July, to prepare for the celebration of the next day, and to transact ordinary business, but should the third fall on Sunday then the meeting shall be held on the second. IV. At every Anniversary, each member shall contribute SIX dollars towards the funds of the Society; every member may bring or permit his own son or sons, or the son or sons of a deceased member, under the age of twenty-one years, to partake of the Anniversary dinner; Provided, that for each and every one of them over eighteen years, he shall pay to the Treasurer the sum of two dollars: And Provided also, That any member absent for a year or more at a time, in the service of the United States, or of South-Carolina, shall not be charged for contribution during such absence. 31 V. At every Anniversary there shall be chosen a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, two Stewards, and two or more Delegates to represent the Society in the General Society; and in case of the death, resignation or removal of any of the above officers, another person or persons shall at the next ensuing General Meeting, be chosen to supply his or their place for the remaining part of the year. If at any meeting both the President and Vice-President should be absent, the members present may choose a Chairman- to preside, and proceed to transact the business of the Society. VI. All Officers, Delegates and Committees of the Society, shall continue vested with their respective authorities until others are appointed in their places. VII. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the Society, unless nine of the members are present, who shall constitute a quorum. VIII. All questions proposed in the Society, shall be determined by a majority of the members present, voting vivd voce ; but the vote shall be taken by ballot should any three members demand it. IX. The Society shall be opened as soon as the President shall have taken the chair, and the Minutes of the preceding meet- ing read, and considered in session, till the President shall have declared the business closed. X. The President, or in his absence, the Vice-President, or in the absence of both, the Chairman of the Standing Committee shall have power to call an extra meeting, whenever it is his opinion that the affairs of the Society require it — giving such public notice as he shall deem necessary. 32 XL The President at each Anniversary, shall appoint a Standing Committee, to consist of seven members, besides the officers of the Society, and all members who choose to attend the meeting thereof shall have a right to debate and vote on any question laid before them for discussion. XII. It shall be the business of the Standing Committee to propose at the general meetings, any matter which they may consider as conducive to the benefit and advantage of the Society, to afford temporary relief to all such persons as by the rules of the Society are entitled to it, and transact all such business as cannot be postponed till a general meeting. XIII. The Secretary shall keep minutes of all the proceedings of the Society, and record all rules and by-laws, in a book to be particularly kept for that purpose; he shall likewise keep all letters to and copies of letters from the Society ; taking care that every transaction of the Society, and every occur- rence relating to it, as far as comes to his knowledge, be faith- fully registered and deposited in the archives. XIV. The Treasurer shall keep account of all monies received or disbursed on account of the Society. XV. All titles, stocks, bonds and other securities for money, shall be taken in the corporate name of the Society and made payable to the "Society of Cincinnati of the State of South-Carolina," no monies belonging to the Society shall be let out at interest, by the Treasurer, but with the consent of the Standing Committee, nor lent directly or indirectly to a member of the Society; nor shall any member be admitted to become surety for the monies lent. 33 XVI. The books and accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited and examined by the Standing Committee, or a special Committee, who shall on every anniversary lay the same before the Society. XVII. That all distinction between honorary and regular mem- bers be and the same is hereby abolished. All lineal male descendants of such persons as now are, have been, or may hereafter become members of the Society shall be eligible as members thereof; Provided that whenever there shall be no lineal descendants, the collateral males shall be entitled; and Provided also that the lineal descendants of a deceased member by a daughter shall be entitled in preference over 'collateral male branches. XVIII. No person shall be elected a member of this Society except by ballot at a regular general meeting, by a majority of at least three- fourths of the members present; no person shall be ballotted for who has not been proposed at a previous regular general meeting of the Society, and the most sacred regard to secrecy shall be observed by the members on the occasion, that if the candidate should prove unsuccessful, the knowledge of his misfortune shall never transpire. XIX If any members of the Society shall die in such indigent circumstances that the expenses of his funeral cannot be properly defrayed by his estate, the same shall be disbursed by the Treasurer out of the funds of the Society. XX. No Rule or By-Law of this Society shall be altered nor shall any New Rule, or By-Law be made, until the same 5 34 has been proposed at one general meeting, and approved of, and agreed to at another. XXL No question of a political or religious character shall be discussed at any meeting of the Society. LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FKOM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION ; THE RANK THEY HELD AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE WAR, AND THE STATE OR CORPS TO WHICH THEY WERE SEVERALLY.ATTACHED. NAMES. William Moultrie, Isaac Huger, Mordecai Gist, Charles C.Pinckney, Barnard Beekman, A mho. W. White, Francis Marion, Peter Horry, John F. Grimke, William Scott, Wm. Washington, Lewis Morris, Thomas Pinckney, Ephraim Mitchell, John Vanderhorst, Isaac Harleston, Samuel Taylor, Robert Forsyth, James Hamilton, Elnathan Haskill, Felix Warley, Joseph Warley, Simeon Theus, Thomas Shubrick, James Mitchell, Richard B. Baker, Adrien Proveaux, William Hext, Charles I ining, Harman Davis, Samuel Warren, Albert Roux, Lavacher, John Martin, Thomas Gadsden, Thomas Hall, John U. s^mith, Field Farrar, John Wickley, John Williamson, George Turner, John Hart, Peter Gray, George Warley, Daniel Mazyck, John Buchanan, Uriah Goodwyn, Richard B. Roberts, STATE RANK. OR CORPS. Remarks. Major General. South Carolina. Dead. Briga. General. ditto Dead. ditio Maryland. Dead. Colonel. South Carolina Dead. ditto ditto. Dead. ditto 1st Reg. L. D. Dead. Lt. Col. Comd't. South Carolina. Dead. ditto ditto Dead. Lieut. Colonel. ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead- ditto 3d Reg. L. D. Dead. ditto New York. Dead. Major. South Carolina. Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto Virginia. Dead- ditto Pennsylvania. Dead. ditto Massachusetts. Dead. Captain. South Carolina. Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditio Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead- ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead- ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ditto ditto Dead. ^6 Thomas B. Bowen, Enos Keeves, John Markland, Daniel .VI' Lane, Benjamin Carter, Thomas Turner, George Melven, Patrick Carneg, Eflm. G. Coleman, JNath'l. Pendleton, Arc'd. MH'alester, Christian Senf, Jacob .^chreiber, William Tate, Henry Mooie, John Shivers Budd, Constant Freeman, John Goodwyn, John Hamilton, John Knap, James Legare, Thomas O. Russell, Charles Brown, Daniel D'Oyley, James Kennedy, William Ward, Samuel Beekman, Thomas I 'unbar, John Peter Ward, George Ogier, feteplien Mazyck, James Milligan, William Murren, George Reicl, Adam Gilchrist, James Johnston, Win. Thompson, Jonas Addoms, Thomas Hunt, Joseph Brevard, John Middleton, Alexander Garden, A. U. G. Elholm, Henry C. Flagg, Frederick Sunn, William Neufvilie, Joseph Blyth, Tho. H. M'Calla, James E. B. Finley Benjamin L. Perry, Robert VV harry. Stephen Drayton, John Mitchell, lohn S. Dart. Andrew D' Fluent, Henry Purcell, John Hurt, Captain. ditto ditto. ditto di to ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Captain Lieu't. ditto ditto ditto Lieutenant. ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Cornet. ditto ditto Reg'l. Surgeon. ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Reg. Sur. Mate. Pennsylvania. ditto ditto New-York- North ' 'arolina. Massachusetts. Georgia. Lee's Legion. Connecticut. Virginia. Maryland, Engineers. ditto South Carolina. ditto ditto Massachusetts. South Carolina. ditto ditio ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Pennsylvania. ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto New- York. ditto North Carolina. Lee's Legion. ditto Pulaskie's Leg. South Carolina. ditto ditto North Carolina- 4th Reg. L. U. Massachusetts. Pennsylvania. ditto GENERAL STAFF. D. Q. M. Gen. ditto D. P- M. Gen. South Carolina. Pennsylvania. South Carolina. BRIGADE STAFF. Brigade Major. Brig. Chaplain, ditto South Carolina. ditto Virginia. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead- Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. De.d. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead- Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead, Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. 37 GENERAL HOSPITAL. STATE NAMES. RANK. OR CORPS. Remarks. David Oljphant, Director. Southern Army. Dead. Peter Fays^oux, Ph and Surgeon. ditto Dead. Thos. T. T. cker, ditto ditto Dead. William Read, ditto ditto Dead. John rt itherspoon, Surgeon. Main Army. Dead. John L^chman, Jun. Surgeon. Southern Army. Dead. Joseph H. Ramsay, dit'O ditto Dead. Wm. S. Stevens, ditto ditto Dead. Robert Smith, Hos. Chaplain, ditto ■ Dead. MEMBERS ADMITTED AS THE LINEAL DESCENDANTS, AND COLLATERAL BRAN- CHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS, AND OF OFFICERS WHO DIED DURING THE WAR. NAMES. When Admitted. Remarks. Isaac Motte Dart, 13 Januarv, 1800. Dead. William A. Moultrie, 4 July, 1806. Dead. Lieu Chris. Gadsden, ditto Dead. John Middleton, ditto Dead. Daniel E. Huger, ditto Gen. A. Vanderhorst, ditto Dead. John Martin, 13 October, 1806. Dead. Dr. James Fayssoux, 12 January, 1807. Dead. Kobert Smith, 3 July, 1807. Dead. Daniel L. Reeves, ditto Dead. Robert Marion, 4 July, 1807. Dead. "Will'am Cattell, ditto Dead. Henry W. DeSaussure, ditto Dead. Henry Laurens, ditto Dead. Felix B. Warley, 4 July, 1808. Dead. Thomas Shubrick,jun., ditto Dead. James Gilchrist, ditto HONORARY MEMBERS. William Washington, jun. Lewis Morris, jun. John Grimke, Thomas Pinckneyjun. Francis K. Huger, A. Vanderhorst, jun. John Viinderhorst, Richard B. Bj,ker,jun. Dr. Daniel DVyley, Alexander Garden, Lionel H. Kennedy, Thomas S. Grimke. 4 July, 1807. ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto 4 July, 1808. ditto Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. LIST OF MEMBERS ADMITTED SINCE JULY, 1808 States Gist, Alexander Garden, George Evans, William Simmons, William Warley, Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. James Hardy, (of New York,) Dead. William Budd, J. Harleston Kead, W. J. Grayson, E. B, Lining, H. A. DeSaussure, C. R. Greene, Dead. George B. Reid, William Cattell, Dead. William Mason Smith, Dead. Daniel D'Oyley, Jr., Dead. Charles Lee Edwards, Dead. William Hall, iEneas S. Reeves, Dead. Richard Shubrick, Dead. Henry Purcell, Dead. Robert B. Gilchrist, William Drayton, Dead. C. Cotesworth Pinckney, Jr., Charles T. Brown, Isaac Motte Campbell, Simeon Theus, Jr., Charles VV. D'Oyley, S. B. Rush Finley, James Hamilton, Charles Warley, Geo. W. Egleston, John S. Cogdell, Richard S. Pinckney. E. H. Purcell, Paul Trapier, Aaron C. Smith, Joseph H. Ramsay, Charles Lining, Ebenezer Flagg, William Moultrie Reid, Francis Y. Legare, Allard H. Belin, William B. Shubrick, Jacob Warley, John B. Laurens, John B. Irving, Maham Haig, Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Resigned. Dead. Dead. Dead. Resigned Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. J- Bassnett Legare, Dead. Richard W. Cogdell, John H. Tucker, Thomas Lining, Edward R. Pinckney, Dead. William B. Ioor, R. H. Lining, Dead. Barnard S. Elliott, W. Moultrie Brailsford, Charles T. Haskell, Paul Trapier, Resigned. W illiam Washington, Edward R. Laurens, William Patterson, Resigned. E. Vanderhorst, Robert Q. Pinckney, John A. Ramsay, W. P. Finley, Henry C. Flagg, H. W. Peronneau, C. A. DeSaussure, William C. Fayssoux, Dead. J. E. B. Finley, Dead. Gibbs L. Elliott. Harris Simons, Geo. W. Haig, Hopson Pinckney, , W. W. Ancrum, James Simons, T. Pinckney Lowndes, Dead. J. Harleston Read, Jr. J. Hamilton, Jr., Dead. Evan Edwards, Philip R. Neyle, Dead. William G. Ramsay. W. J. Lesesne, Isaac Lesesne, Dead. Charles W. Simons, John Greaton, Alexander R. Haig, Thomas P. Middleton, Charles Lee Edwards, William E. Haskell, Daniel H. Hamilton, H. W. DeSaussure, W. G. DeSaussure, J. 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