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Unknown [Circular to applicants for the Society of the Cincinnati]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03615 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript letter Date: 25 July 1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 32.4 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

Writes in full, "I have the honor to acknowledge, on the part of the General meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, held in May 1787, at Philadelphia, the receipt of your application to be admitted as a member of the said society - I am commanded by the society to inform you, that all applications for admission, are postponed to the next general meeting to be holden [sic] in May 1788; when they will be taken up, and particularly considered." Text in the hand of Robert Pemberton's, Knox's secretary at the War Department. Docketed in Knox's hand

[draft]
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge, on the part of the General meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, held in May 1787 at Philadelphia, the receipt of your application to be admitted as a member of the said society -
- I am commanded by the society to inform you, that all applications for admission, are postponed to the next general meeting to be holden in May 1788; when they will be taken up, and particularly considered
I have the honor to be
Sir
With respect,
Your most obedient
And
Most humble Servt
New York July 25th 1787

Circular to
Monsieur de Léancourt, [Brigadier] &c - near [Bourdeuren]
Monsieur Count de Vence - Paris
The baron de Valletiere - Brigadier St Domingo
O Reilly Court de Bresny Lt Colo St Eustatia in [illegible]
Monsieur de Gardona de Tuley - Capt in the Navy

[docket]
Letter Circular to a
Number of foreign
Gentlemen, applying
For admission into the Cincinnati
25 July 1787

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