Item #39865 THE INSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CANTONMENT ON THE BANKS OF HUDSON'S RIVER, MAY 10, 1783: WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, JUNE 9, 1783, TO JULY 4, 1811. Society of the Cincinnati.
THE INSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CANTONMENT ON THE BANKS OF HUDSON'S RIVER, MAY 10, 1783: WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, JUNE 9, 1783, TO JULY 4, 1811.
THE INSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CANTONMENT ON THE BANKS OF HUDSON'S RIVER, MAY 10, 1783: WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, JUNE 9, 1783, TO JULY 4, 1811.

THE INSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CANTONMENT ON THE BANKS OF HUDSON'S RIVER, MAY 10, 1783: WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, JUNE 9, 1783, TO JULY 4, 1811.

Boston: Printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1812. 112pp, with engraved frontispiece by Graham and tissue guard. Original paper over boards, title printed on front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Text untrimmed, with endpapers and tissue guard browned. A date stamp from a library is present on margins of a few pages. Good+.

This copy has the bookplate of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, noting that the book is the gift of Mrs. Frederick Silsbee Whitwell of Boston. An inscription on the front free endpaper: "To M-- Whitwell, | The most illustrious member of the Society. | From P. H. Sec." Samuel Whitwell, "Surgeon," is listed on page 110 of the list of original members. He delivered the July 4 Oration to the Massachusetts Society in 1789.
The book prints the Society's founding documents from 1783 and 1784; its triennial and other meetings through 1805; "Extracts from the Records of the State Society of Cincinnati of Massachusetts," including minutes of meetings and "Bye-Laws and Rules." Pages 97-112 list alphabetically the "Names of the Original Members."
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 13124. AI 26775. Item #39865

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