Unknown [Reports on the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04665 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Manuscript document Date: July 1790 Pagination: 2 p. ; 23.8 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy
Document contains three parts. The first section relates that the South Carolina branch of the Society of the Cincinnati has resolved to send correspondence and a copy of a report to Cincinnati President General George Washington. The report will describe a Society committee's opinion on the behavior of Henry Knox, who sent a letter providing "information of the place for the tricennial meeting." The second part discusses how the Standing Committee believes that "Genl Knox has not treated the Society of this State with proper attention in omitting to forward his notification of the place of the general meeting of the Society in time for our Delegates to attend thereat." Third and last part noted as a copy of a letter to George Washington from Knox, signing as Secretary General, dated 14 April 1790. It states that the "triennial meeting of the Cincinnati is to be held in the City of Philadelphia on the first monday in May next."
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Cincinnati July 1790
At our adjourned meeting of the State Society of Cincinnati for South Carolina; The Report of the committee on the conduct of Major Genl. Knox Secretary General to the General Society of the Cincinnati respecting his letter giving information of the place for the triennial meeting being. Read and agreed to - Resolved that a Copy of this Report, with a letter to be drawn up by the standing Committee and signed by the President be directed and transmitted to the President General - Charleston July 1790 -
"The Standing Committee to whom was referr'd the letter of Major General Knox Secry Genl. of the Genl Society of the Cincinnati to Major Genl Moultrie - Report that it is their opinion that Genl Knox has not treated the Society of their State with proper attention in omitting to forward his notification of the place of the general meeting of the Society in time for our Delegates to attend there at; and also that his not answering the letter of Colo. Drayton Chariman of the Standing Committee of the 2nd March last desiring information for the government of the Delegates of this State Society in this particular were the courses of [2] our riot being represented in the last triennial meeing; And the committee do recommend that a Letter be wrote to the President General of the Cincinnati expressive of the Society's disapprobation of the Conduct of the Secretary General in this case" -
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Sir
The State Society of the Cincinnati of So Carolina will please to remember that the triennial meeting of the Cincinnati is to be held in the City of Philadelphia on the first Monday in May next agreeable to the Circular Letter written by the Members assembled by adjournment at the City of Philadelphia on the 18th day of May 1788. -
I have the honor to be Sir Your Mo: Obed Servt. (signed) H Knox Sery Genl.
New York April 14. 1790 The President of the Cincinnati of the State of So Carolina
"Received 25th May 1790"
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