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7 New York. 8 North Carolina. 9 Pennsylvania. 10 Rhode Island. ... This is a list of the founding members of the Society of the Cincinnati. George Washington. Tadeusz ...
The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. The John L. Murphy Publishing Company, Printers for the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, 1898. Callahan, North (1958). Henry Knox: General Washington's General. Rinehart. Chernow, Ron (2010). Washington: A Life. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-266-7. Davis, Curtis Carroll.
Mount Gulian is a reconstructed 18th century Dutch manor house on the Hudson River in the town of Fishkill, New York, United States of America.The original house served as the headquarters of Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben during the American Revolutionary War and was the place where the Society of the Cincinnati was founded.
Pierre Van Cortlandt III (1815–1884), New York landowner. Scion of the prominent Van Cortlandt political dynasty whose members include Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721–1814), the first lieutenant governor of New York, and Philip Van Cortlandt (1749–1831), a founder of the hereditary Society of the Cincinnati; Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873 ...
Robert Robert [a] Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he
The society has headquarters in New York and its members reside throughout the United States and in many foreign countries. All members of the Daughters of the Cincinnati are descendants of officers who were entitled to original membership in the Society of the Cincinnati founded in 1783. [7] [8]
A French Society of the Cincinnati was founded soon afterward by King Louis XVI. Cincinnati, Ohio and Cincinnatus, New York, in the United States, were named in his honor. [26] Cincinnatus is referenced in Book II, Chapter 1 of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. [29]
The town of Stephentown, New York is named for Stephen Van Rensselaer. [71] In 1791, Van Rensselaer was elected as an honorary member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati. [72] In 1822, he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale University. [73]