Signed: By the order of the Association, E.B. Clemson, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the 16th infantry, Vice-President ..., Philadelphia, June 15, 1815. Appeal for the formation of the "Belisarian Association" by the veterans of the War of 1812; "The purposes of this society will be to render assistance to it members, as far as possible, in all their pursuits; to secure them that justice which their merits demand; and to extend the same patronage to their widows and children as to themselves." Library copy is addressed to "Colonel Jacob Kingsbury, Late 1st U.S. Infantry, Newport, Rhode Island."(Kingsbury was an original member of the Connecticut Society); bears 14 July 1815 Newport postal mark, with forwarding details to Norwich, CT.