Rough draft of a Society to be formed by the American officers, and to be called the Cincinnati : Westpoint, 15 April 1783 / H Knox

Rough draft of a Society to be formed by the American officers, and to be called the Cincinnati : Westpoint, 15 April 1783 / H Knox

West Point, N.Y. 1783 [i.e. 1860?]

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 25 cm

MSS 674M

In an unidentified hand, possibly that of C. S. Daveis.
A nineteenth-century copy of Knox's draft of a proposal for founding the Society of the Cincinnati.
On lined blue paper with embossed stamp at upper left: Congress / Pa[r?]sons Co.
Note in pencil at top of p. [1]: This paper was given me by Hon C. S. Daveis, Portland, Aug. 30, 1860.
Gift of Alexander Ferguson Anderson, 1957.

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