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WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President. Engraved document signed ("G:Washington") as President, countersigned by Henry Knox, Mount Vernon, 24 May 1784. 1 page, oblong folio, 360 x 510 mm. (14 1/8 x 20¼ in.), accomplished in manuscript, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, neatly matted and framed. A certificate of membership in the SOCIETY OF CINCINNATILS, ELABORATELY ENGRAVED BY JEAN-JACQUES ANDRé LE VEAU (1729-1786) AFTER AN ORIGINAL DESIGN OF PIERRE CHARLES L'ENFANT (1754-1825) AS DRAWN BY AUGUSTIN-LOUIS LA BELLE (1757-1841), WITH LARGE ALLEGORICAL VIGNETTES SURROUNDING THE CALLIGRAPHIC TEXT: NAVAL VESSELS AT SEA, BRITTANIA AND A BRITISH LION FLEEING BOLTS OF LIGHTNING FROM AN AMERICAN EAGLE, NEATLY MATTED AND FRAMED. A VERY GOOD COPY OF A DOCUMENT OFTEN FOUND IN MEDIOCRE STATE.
SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI MEMBERSHIP FOR ELIAS BOUDINOT, A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
The Society of Cincinnati, the text explains, was "...instituted by the Officers of the American Army, at the period of its Dissolution...to commemorate the great Event which gave independence to North America," and "for...inculcating the Duty of laying down in Peace arms assumed for public defence..." The Society, open to all former officers of the Continental Army and its foreign allies, was founded with Washington's approval by Henry Knox, Jedidiah Huntington and Baron von Steuben. Its constitution was formally adopted on 13 May 1783. The order was named after "that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus," who had left his prosperous farm on two occasions to take up arms in defense of his homeland. Washington agreed to become president of the Society; Alexander Hamilton filled the post after Washington's death.
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821) earned an LL.D at Yale and resided in New Jersey. Active in the independence movement, he elected to Congress om 1777 and was named Commissary of Prisoners. In that difficult post he spent some $30,000 of his own money to purchase the freedom of American prisoners and became, during the Valley Forge encampment, a close personal friend of Washington. In November 1782, Boudinot was chosen President of Congress and in that capacity signed the Treaty of Paris, the alliance with France and the act ordering cessation of hostilities.
SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI MEMBERSHIP FOR ELIAS BOUDINOT, A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
The Society of Cincinnati, the text explains, was "...instituted by the Officers of the American Army, at the period of its Dissolution...to commemorate the great Event which gave independence to North America," and "for...inculcating the Duty of laying down in Peace arms assumed for public defence..." The Society, open to all former officers of the Continental Army and its foreign allies, was founded with Washington's approval by Henry Knox, Jedidiah Huntington and Baron von Steuben. Its constitution was formally adopted on 13 May 1783. The order was named after "that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus," who had left his prosperous farm on two occasions to take up arms in defense of his homeland. Washington agreed to become president of the Society; Alexander Hamilton filled the post after Washington's death.
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821) earned an LL.D at Yale and resided in New Jersey. Active in the independence movement, he elected to Congress om 1777 and was named Commissary of Prisoners. In that difficult post he spent some $30,000 of his own money to purchase the freedom of American prisoners and became, during the Valley Forge encampment, a close personal friend of Washington. In November 1782, Boudinot was chosen President of Congress and in that capacity signed the Treaty of Paris, the alliance with France and the act ordering cessation of hostilities.