{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3689", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "J V-\\nV\\nl^\\nv\\n.0\\n-1 J\\nW\\nV\\ny\\nV\\nV ^U\\nv*\\n\u00c2\u00ab5 -n*.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y\\no,\\n-J\\nv\\nN\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2V", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "y\\nP\\nv*\\nx%\\nO N\\nW x", "height": "3498", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A HISTORY\\nDELAWARE STATE SOCIETY\\nCINCINNATI.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "i745-i\u00c2\u00ab22.\\n/E, MRS. CAMPBELL D. EMORY, (nEE TJLTON,) WASHINGTON, 0. C.", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PAPERS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE.\\nXIII.\\nA HISTORY\\nOF THE\\nDELAWARE STATE SOCIETY\\nOF THE\\nCINCINNATI\\nFROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME.\\nTO WHICH IS APPENDED\\nA BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DELAWARE REGIMENTS\\nIN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.\\nPERSONAL MEMOIRS OF OFFICERS, ROLLS OF SAME, ORATION\\nBEFORE THE DELAWARE CINCINNATI ON THE\\nDEATH OF WASHINGTON, ETC.\\nBY\\nHENRY HOBART BELLAS, LL.B.,\\nCAPTAIN U. S. ARMY,\\nMEMBER PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER NEW HAMPSHIRE\\nHISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC.\\nTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE,\\nWILMINGTON.\\nI8 95", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "y\u00c2\u00b1\\n7", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe following paper on the Delaware State Society of\\nthe Cincinnati was read by request before the Delaware\\nHistorical Society in Wilmington, Delaware, on December\\n17, 1894 (the Hon. Charles B. Lore, Chief-Justice of the\\nState and President of the Historical Society, presiding);\\nand, by resolution, was afterwards directed to be printed for\\nthe information of the members and others.\\nThe author, while acknowledging the uniform courtesy\\nand valuable assistance which he has received from officers\\nand members of the Society of the Cincinnati, has been\\ngreatly impeded in his work by the meagre sources of in-\\nformation on the subject; finding at the commencement of\\nhis labors not only no record whatever of the Delaware\\nCincinnati, but that very few in the State were aware even\\nof its prior existence. All the data in the following pages,\\ntherefore, have been ascertained only by patient and con-\\ntinued research in all parts of the Union.\\nWhile deeply gratified with the result accomplished, viz.,\\nthe subsequent and speedy revival of the Delaware Society\\nof the Cincinnati, the author cannot but be aware that\\nboth imperfections and errors still exist in this brief history\\ntherefore he must ask the indulgence of the reader, as well\\nas the favor of an early notification of the proper correc-\\ntions.\\nH. H. Bellas.\\nGermantown, Philadelphia,\\nMay 13, 1895.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nPreface 3\\nHistory of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati 7\\nHistory of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolution 40\\nPersonal and Military Records of Original Members of the\\nDelaware Cincinnati 53\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel John Haslet s Regiment, Dela-\\nware State Troops (1776) 72\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel David Hall s Regiment, Dela-\\nware Line (1777) 75\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel David Hall s Regiment, Dela-\\nware Line (1780) 78\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel Henry Neill s Regiment, Dela-\\nware Line (1780) 80\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel Samuel Patterson s Battalion,\\nDelaware Militia (1776) 81\\nRoll of Officers of Captain Allen McLane s Partisan Com-\\npany, Delaware Troops 82\\nRoll of Officers of Veteran Corps of Delaware 1802-18 12) 8^\\nOration on the Death of Washington, pronounced by Captain\\nEdward Roche before the Delaware Cincinnati, February\\n22, 1800 84\\nReorganization of the Delaware State Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati, February 22, 1895 104\\nCharter of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati 109", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A HISTORY\\nOF THE\\nDELAWARE STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.\\nOn the sixteenth day of November,\\n1782, the veteran Delaware battalion\\nof the Continental Line, under Cap-\\ntain William McKennan, who in the\\nclosing days of the Revolutionary\\nWar had relieved its brave but dis-\\nabled commander, Major Robert\\nKirkwood, the successor of Hall,\\nPope, and Vaughan, in obedience\\nto orders previously received to hold\\nitself in readiness to march home from the southward\\nin the Carolinas, started on its last long and wearisome\\njourney of over seven hundred miles. Leaving its head-\\nquarters on the Ashley River, where it then lay encamped,\\nand taking up its march via Camden, Salisbury, and Peters-\\nburg, it crossed the James River at Carter s Ferry, pushed\\nNOTE. The above illustration of the Cincinnati insignia is from a photo-\\ngraph of the eagle presented by General Lafayette to Surgeon James Tilton,\\nthe first President of the Delaware Society, and which is now in the posses-\\nsion of his eldest representative, Colonel M Lane Tilton, U. S. Marine Corps.\\n7", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\non through Maryland, and in exactly two months after\\nthe date of its departure from the main Southern army\\n(January 17, 1783), it finally arrived and with what feel-\\nings can be only imagined, not described at Christiana\\nCreek, near New Castle, in its native State.\\nHere the battalion rendezvoused until October of the\\nsame year, when it was permanently disbanded; Captain\\nMcKennan, then in command, being appointed to settle\\nand adjust the accounts of the officers and men of the bat-\\ntalion with the United States Auditor, as also\\nto issue both certificates for past services as well as land warrants to the\\nindividuals claiming, or their attorneys for them, which duty he performed\\nto the general satisfaction.\\nRamsey, in his History of the United States, f says,\\nThis Delaware regiment was reckoned the most efficient in the Conti-\\nnental army. It went into active service soon after the commencement of\\nthe contest with Great Britain and served through the whole of it. Courting\\ndanger wherever it was to be encountered, frequently forming part of a vic-\\ntorious army, but oftener the companions of their countrymen in the gloom\\nof disaster, the Delawares fought at Brooklyn, at Trenton and at Princeton,\\nat Brandy wine and at Germantown, at Guilford and at Eutaw, until at length,\\nreduced to a handful of brave men, they concluded their services with the\\nwar in the glorious termination of the Southern campaign.\\nGates and Greene, Lee, Williams, and De Kalb had all\\nborne testimony, as eye-witnesses, to the heroism of the\\nDelaware line.\\nSee Governor Caleb P. Bennett s History of the Delaware Regiment,\\nPerm. Mag. of Hist, and Biog., Vol. IX., No. 4 (1885) also Niles Reg-\\nister, September 2, 1843.\\nf Vol. I., p. 209.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "1 752-1 Si;\\nI POSSESSION OF OtSCEHOAVT, JOHN", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 9\\nIt was impossible that its memory should be easily-\\nforgotten, or that the ties formed in its long and arduous\\nservice should be readily sundered. Accordingly, when\\nthe moment for separation arrived, steps were taken for\\nthe formation of a branch of the Society of the Cincin-\\nnati in accordance with the recommendation made by the\\nGeneral Society, instituted at Newburg, on the banks of\\nthe Hudson, May 13, 1783, and as had been already\\ndone by many of the remaining thirteen States.\\nThe object of the institution of the Cincinnati, formed\\nby the officers of the American army at the close of the\\nRevolution, and, in the words of the original Institution,\\nto perpetuate as well the remembrance of this vast event, as the mutual\\nfriendships which have been formed under the pressure of a common\\ndanger and in many instances cemented by the blood of the parties;\\nas well as the steps which led to its formation, are so\\nwell known and have been so often told, as to require\\nhere no repetition.\\nIt suffices merely to state that, following the example\\nalready set by the officers in other States, and preceding\\nthe final disbandment of the Del vare line at New Cas-\\ntle, its officers, with other r at Wilmington, and on\\nthe fourth day of July, ^63, formed a State Society,\\nor, to use the quaint, old style of the period and the\\noriginal title of the State, the Delaware State Society\\nof the Cincinnati. An organization was effected, officers\\nelected, and in the month following the disbandment of\\nOriginal records of the Society. See also Scharf s Hist. Delaware,\\nVol. I., p. 266.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "IO HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nthe battalion under the command of Captain McKennan,\\nat New Castle, a circular letter was addressed to the\\nGeneral and other State Societies, notifying them of the\\npreceding facts as well as addressing them on the then\\ncondition of the Union.\\nThis letter is not only interesting but valuable as being\\namong the first recorded authoritative acts of the Society,\\nand for this reason is cited in full with its accompanying\\nletter of transmittal to the Connecticut State Society.*\\nDelaware State, November 6th, 1783.\\nSir\\nEnclosed with this, I transmit you a letter from the Delaware State\\nSociety of the Cincinnati and have to request you to lay it before your\\nSociety at their next meeting.\\nI am, Sir, with respect,\\nYour Most Hum. Servant,\\nW. McKennan, Secretary.\\nThe Secretary of Connecticut State Society of the Cincinnati.\\nDelaware State, November 6th, 1783.\\nGentlemen\\nAgreeably to those rules of the Cincinnati, which enjoin an annual\\ncorrespondence of the State Societies, the Delaware State Society have now\\nthe pleasure to address you.\\nProceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1784; also Minutes\\nof N. Y. State Society for February 3, and of Conn. State Society for\\nDecember 17, 1784, before which latter Society the circular letter (having\\nbeen previously acknowledged on March 30) was then read at this first\\nmeeting of the Connecticut Society. The original letter is now in the\\narchives of the Connecticut Historical Society at Hartford, with which\\nbody the records of the Connecticut Cincinnati were deposited, after its\\nso-called dissolution in 1804, by the Secretary, Lieutenant John Mix, for\\nsafe keeping.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. II\\nThe success with which the Society is likely to be established in every\\nState, affords us a sensible pleasure. The attack, or rather the compliment\\npaid us by the learned Cassius, we hope, will have no other effect than\\nto excite us to laudable ambition, to engage our attention to maxims of\\nprudence and to contribute in establishing us in those republican principles\\nof virtue, honor, and honesty which we hope will ever be the more dis-\\ntinguishing badges of the Cincinnati.\\nThe union of the States affords an ample field for discussion, but we\\nare confined to the compass of a letter. We know, that the misfortunes\\nand destruction of confederacies flow not from usurpation, but from discord\\nand disunion and that it is the advice of our best politicians, at this\\ncritical juncture, to brace the bonds of our Union. That bond, which we\\nthink most immediately to be regarded, is the peace establishment, as\\npointed out in General Washington s letter. The ablest civilians assure\\nus, the confederation is not defective in this respect, and we consider our\\npolitical union as very deeply interested in the support of this measure.\\nThe Delaware State has complied with the requisitions of Congress,\\nfor paying the interest, and gradually sinking the principal of the public\\ndebt; and when the other States shall have agreed to this righteous\\nmeasure, we hope, public credit will be restored, and that nothing will be\\nwanting to make the whole community happy.\\nThe officers of this State Society, chosen on the 4th of July last, are\\nDoctor James Tilton, President.\\nMajor John Patten, Vice-President.\\nCaptn. William McKennan, Secretary.\\nLieutt. Edward Roche, Treasurer.\\nStephen McWilliam, Ass t Treasurer.\\nBy order of the Society,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12\\nHISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nThe complete Roll of the Society at this time bore the\\nnames of thirty-seven (37) officers of the Delaware and\\nPennsylvania lines and Continental staff, or their repre-\\nsentatives. They are recorded as follows (the signatures\\nbeing given as written)\\nDollars.\\nName.\\nRank.\\n75-\\n{David) D. Hall,\\nColonel.\\n60.\\n{Joseph) J. Vaughan,\\nLieut-Col.\\n50.\\nJohn Patten,\\nMajor.\\n40.\\nRobert Kirkwood,\\nMaj. by Brv t\\n40.\\nJames Moore,\\n40.\\nJohn Learmonth,\\n40.\\nPeter Jaquett,\\nCaptain.\\n40.\\nWm. McKennan,\\nu\\n40.\\nGeorge Purvis,\\nWilliam Adams,\\nSon of Captain Nathan Adams, who was k.\\n40.\\nHarry Duff,\\nCaptain.\\n30.\\n{John Vance) John V. Hyatt,\\nLieutenant.\\n30.\\nJames Campbell,\\ntt\\n30.\\n{Caleb Prew) Caleb P. Bennett,\\ntt\\n30.\\nJoseph Hosman,\\n3\u00c2\u00b0-\\nCharles Kidd,\\ntt\\n30.\\nEdward Roche,\\ntt\\n30-\\nThomas Anderson,\\ntt\\nJoseph Haslet,\\nEldest son of Colonel John\\nHaslet, who was k.\\n30.\\nStephen McWilliam,\\nLieutenant.\\n30.\\nJohn Piatt,\\nit\\n60.\\n{Reuben) R. Gilder,\\nSurgeon.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.\\n13\\nDollars.\\nName.\\nRank.\\n90.\\nJames Tilton,\\nHosp l Surg n.\\n60.\\nChas. Pope,\\nlate Lt.-Col.\\n40.\\nAllen McLane,\\nCaptain.\\n60.\\nGeorge Monro,\\nSurg n 6 V. R.\\n30.\\n{Joseph) Josh. Driskill,\\nLieutenant.\\n60.\\nJames Jones,\\nSurg n 4 P. R.\\n90.\\nHenry Latimer,\\nHosp l Surg n.\\n40.\\nEnoch Anderson,\\nlate Captain.\\n40.\\nJoseph Anderson,\\nMaj.byBrev t.\\nWilliam Anderson,\\nEnsign.\\n30.\\nDavid Kirkpatrick,\\nCapt. Lieut.\\n30.\\nNathaniel Twining,\\nlate Lieuten t.\\n9O.\\nEbenezer Augustus\\nSmith, Hosp l Surg n.\\n40. {Daniel Jenifer) Daniel J. Adams,\\nlate Major.\\n40.\\nNathaniel Mitchell,\\nMajor.*\\nMany other names of surviving officers of the Delaware\\nline are missing from the above roll, some by reason of lack\\nof eligibility, from not\\nhaving served the requi-\\nsite time, and a number\\nprobably not approving\\nof the institution of the\\nOrder, as was also the case in other States. Such, for in-\\nThis list is from original parchment roll of the Delaware State Society.\\nOn a list in the possession of the General Society, dated 1788, there are\\nslight variations in one or two of the names, as is also the case in memoran-\\ndum made by the Hon. Hamilton Fish, President-General, in the Records of\\nthe New York State Society, and in list copied (in 1846) by the then secre-\\ntary of the Pennsylvania Society, and in possession of the latter to-day.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14\\nHISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nflme/Uu\\n01O\\ni^ZHT^Z^svcZICk.\\nstance, are the names of Lieutenant Edward Armstrong,\\nLieutenant Colonel\\nGunning Bedford, Cap-\\ntain John Corse, Lieu-\\ntenant Daniel Powell\\nCox, Captain Henry-\\nDarby, Major Thomas\\nMacdonough, Ensign\\nBenjamin McLane,\\nCaptain Paul Queen-\\nault, Lieutenant Elijah\\nSkillington, Lieutenant\\nJohn Vaughan, Captain\\nJohn Willson, and\\nothers.*\\nAt a meeting of the\\nSociety held a few\\nmonths later (February, 1784), the minutes, as well as the\\ndaily papers of the time,f in addition to recording the\\nelection of the following gentlemen as officers of the Dela-\\nware State Society of the Cincinnati for the present year\\n(the list being the same as already given in the circular\\nletter), add the additional information that\\nDr. Tilton and Major James Moore were also appointed\\ndelegates to attend the first General Meeting of the Cincin-\\nSee Heitman s List of Officers of Delaware Line at close of Revolu-\\ntionary War, p. 472; also Scharf s Hist. Delaware, Vol. L, and White-\\nley s Hist. Delaware Revolutionary Soldiers, 1875.\\nfSee Freeman s Journal and N. A. Intelligencer, Phila., Pa., March 3,\\n1784.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "1 730-1 797.\\n1 PORTRAIT IN POSSESSION OF FAMILY.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 5\\nnati at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, May 4, of the same\\nyear. At this meeting these delegates voted, with the\\nothers present, for the adoption of the proposed Amended\\nInstitution of the Society, but which was never finally rati-\\nfied by all the States, and resulted in the original Institu-\\ntion of 1783 remaining in force to the present day. Dr.\\nTilton represented Delaware on the committee appointed at\\nthis meeting to make the revision proposed.\\nOn the second day of the meeting (May 5), the mem-\\nbers of the several States having been requested by General\\nWashington, the President-General, to declare the ideas\\nwhich prevailed in their States in regard to the Institution\\n(it having been, as is well known, the subject of fierce at-\\ntack by its opponents since its foundation the previous\\nyear), we find it stated in the proceedings that Doctor\\nTilton for Delaware informed the Society that the principal,\\nand indeed the only, enemies of the Cincinnati were among\\nthe class of people denominated Tories.\\nThe circular letter already alluded to of the Delaware\\nState Society of the Cincinnati, dated November 6, 1783,\\nwas also presented at this meeting by General Knox, the\\nformer Secretary-General, and read by the Secretary pro\\ntem.\\\\\\nThe next meeting of the Society was held at Wilming-\\nton on July 4, 1785, at which the same officers as of the\\npreceding year were re-elected. The additional record of\\nthe proceedings is as follows The Order of Cincinnati\\nWinthrop Sargent s Journal of Cincinnati General Meeting, 1784.\\nPenn. Hist. Soc y Pub., Vol. VI., p. 80.\\nf Proceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1784.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 6 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nbeing convened at this place (the 4th July, 1785), the\\nanniversary of the Independence of America, a dinner was\\nprepared for them at Captain O Flinn s tavern,* and a num-\\nber of the steady friends of the American Revolution\\nbeing invited to dine on the occasion, the day was spent\\nwith the utmost festivity and good order. At the dinner-\\ntime the following toasts, enlivened by the firing of\\ncannon from the beautiful eminence of this borough, were\\ndrank\\n1. May the anniversary of this day forever rejoice the sons of America.\\n2. The United States of America.\\n3. His most Christian Majesty.\\n4. The United Netherlands.\\n5. The Delaware State.\\n6. General Washington.\\n7. May Congress be vested with full and efficient powers to complete the\\nhappiness of America.\\n8. May the principles of Republican freedom universally flourish.\\n9. The glorious memory of those heroes who fell in vindication of the\\nAmerican Revolution.\\n10. Immortality to the Sons of Cincinnati.\\n11. May the virtues of the illustrious farmer be as well grounded as his\\nploughshare.\\nThis tavern, named at different periods the Sign of the Ship, the\\nHappy Retreat, and still later the Lafayette, stood at the southeast cor-\\nner of Market and Third Streets till 1835. Patrick O Flinn, who had been a\\ncaptain of militia during the Revolution, was the proprietor of the place when\\nknown as the Happy Retreat from 1789 till his death in 1818, and in such\\nlatter capacity had entertained at different times, when passing through Wil-\\nmington, Washington, Jefferson, John Adams and wife, Louis Philippe, Aaron\\nBurr, Commodore Perry, and other distinguished guests. As seen, it was a\\nfavorite meeting-place of the Delaware Society of the Cincinnati.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 7\\n12. May the sons and daughters of Columbia join to transmit to latest ages\\nthis day s birthright.\\n13. Success to the trade and commerce of Wilmington.\\nIn 1786 the Society met at New Castle, the final rendez-\\nvous and the place of disbandment of the Delaware line.\\nThe record is as follows: New Castle, July 4, 1786, the\\nSociety of the Cincinnati of the State of Delaware met at\\nthis place and elected the following gentlemen officers for\\nthe current year\\nPresident, Doctor James Tilton.\\nVice-President, Major John Patten.\\nSecretary, Captain William McKennan.\\nTreasurer, Captain Edward Roche.\\nAssistant Treasurer, Major James Moore.\\nDoctor James Tilton, Major James Moore, Major Na-\\nthaniel Mitchell, Major Daniel Jenifer Adams and Captain\\nWilliam McKennan were elected delegates to the General\\nMeeting of the Society at Philadelphia, on May 7, 1787.\\nIt may be added here that this is the only time that we\\nfind the full number of delegates required, representing the\\nState Society at the General Meetings.\\nAt this meeting, Delaware had the honor of having one\\nof its delegates Dr. James Tilton appointed on a com-\\nmittee of three, to prepare rules and regulations for con-\\nducting the business of the General Meeting. These\\nrules, reported by the committee a couple of days later,\\nwere unanimously agreed to by the General Society.f It\\nSee, also, Penna. Packet, Phila., July 8, 1785, Penna. Journal and\\nWeekly Adv fr, and Penna. Evening Herald, Phila., July 9, 1785.\\nf Proceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1787.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "1 8 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nwas also at this meeting that the committee appointed to\\nfix and report the quota of each State Society according to\\nits membership, to operate as a rule for all apportionments\\nwhich it may be necessary to make in the course of this\\nmeeting, reported the rule for Delaware to be in the pro-\\nportion of 15 to 1000 parts; the ratio varying from 172, as\\na maximum for Virginia, to 11, as a minimum for Georgia.*\\nThe record continues The day was afterwards spent\\nin festivity with a number of gentlemen of the town and\\ncountry, when the following toasts were drank\\n1. The United States.\\n2. The Delaware State.\\n3. General Washington.\\n4. The President of this State.\\n5. May this anniversary be ever marked with joy, as its birth was with\\nglory.\\n6. The allies of America in the time of her glorious trouble.\\n7. The memory of our brethren who fell in the struggle.\\n8. May the supporters of the Independence of America be ever united\\nin the basis of republican principles.\\n9. Encouragement and success to the agriculture, manufactories, and\\ncommerce of America.\\n10. May liberality of sentiment, benevolence, charity, and good-will to\\nall mankind ever pervade the minds of Americans and influence\\ntheir conduct.\\n11. Those ladies who have ever countenanced and encouraged the authors\\nand supporters of American Independence.\\n12. May the liberties of America be propagated to the latest generations.\\n13. The memory of Cincinnatus; may his sons ever perpetuate his spirit\\nwith his name. j-\\nProceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1787.\\nf See, also, Penna. Packet, Phila., July 7, and Penna. Evening Herald,\\nPhila., July 8, 1786.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 9\\nWe find no record of any State meeting in 1787, though\\nprobably one was held as usual on the national anniversary\\nand the same officers continued in office, but in the follow-\\ning year (1788) the Society met again at Wilmington,\\nwhich, indeed, with few exceptions, seems now to have\\nbeen the principal meeting-place of the Society during the\\nentire remainder of its existence.\\nOf this last-mentioned meeting it is stated The State\\nSociety of the Cincinnati met at this place (Wilmington) on\\nthe 4th inst, and chose the following gentlemen officers of\\nthe Society for the current year\\nPresident, Doctor James Tilton.\\nVice-Preside?it, Major John Patten.\\nSecretary, Captain William McKennan.\\nTreasurer, Captain Edward Roche.\\nAssistant Treasurer, Doctor George Monro.\\nA sermon by the Rev. Doctor Wharton and an oration\\nby Doctor George Monro were delivered in the forenoon,\\nboth very suitable to the occasion. The Society and citi-\\nzens of the place spent the afternoon in festive joy, and\\ndrank the following toasts\\n1. The wisdom that directed and the sword that obtained the indepen-\\ndence of America.\\n2. The new Constitution.\\n3. The ten States that have adopted the new Constitution.\\n4. May the three remaining States soon follow the noble example first set\\nby Delaware.\\n5. The agriculture of America.\\n6. May the wings of commerce be soon clipped by the growing manu-\\nfactures of America.\\n7. Success to science and seminaries of learning.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\n8. May the liberality of the French monarch in his commercial regula-\\ntions be copied by the British king.\\n9. The friends of freedom and patrons of liberty throughout the world.\\n10. Farmer Washington, may he, like a second Cincinnatus, be called from\\nthe plough to rule a great people.\\n11. The memory of all those who fell during the American Revolution.\\n12. The Delaware State.\\n13. May our utmost hopes and wishes be exceeded in the blessings of the\\nnew Constitution.\\nThe only delegate representing Delaware at an extra\\nGeneral Meeting of the Society held at Philadelphia on\\nMay 5, of this year, appears to have been Major James\\nMoore, though credentials appointing delegates from\\nDelaware, namely Major John Patten, Major James\\nMoore, and Captain William McKennan, one of whom\\nwas to be a representation, were filed with the Secretary\\nat the meeting and probably explains the solitary repre-\\nsentation. The following return of members of the\\ndifferent State Societies was likewise produced and filed\\nat this meeting\\nyfi 5jC 5jC 5jC ?|C ?(C\\nCincinnati of Delaware Total, 27,\\nthus showing a loss already of over a quarter of the\\nnumber of members on the original roll of the Society.f\\nFor the year 1789, the records are again silent, but the\\nsame officers retained their positions in the Society for\\nthat year, as we still find them holding over and re-elected\\nonce more in 1790.\\nSee, also, in Penna. Packet, Phila., July 12, letter from Wilmington, Del.,\\ndated July 9, 1788.\\nf Proceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1788.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 21\\nIn that year, under date of July 5, it is stated: On\\nMonday, the 5th instant, the Society of Cincinnati for the\\nState of Delaware met at the house of Captain O Flinn,\\nin this borough, to celebrate the anniversary of Indepen-\\ndence, and at eleven o clock marched in procession to the\\nAcademy, where divine service was performed by the Rev.\\nLawrence Girelius after which a very ingenious and well-\\nadapted discourse was delivered by the president of the\\nSociety to a large and brilliant audience; at the conclu-\\nsion of which a Federal salute of thirteen cannon was\\ngiven under the direction of Captain Hugh Montgomery.\\nThen the Society returned to Captain O Flinn s and par-\\ntook of a collation which was provided and drank the\\nfollowing toasts, with a salute to each, viz.\\n1. The President of the United States.\\n2. The Senate and House of Representatives.\\n3. The Vice-President.\\n4. The King and National Assembly of France.\\n5. The fair patriots of America.\\n6. The Society of the Cincinnati.\\n7. The Delaware State.\\n8. Agriculture.\\n9. Peace and free trade with all the world.\\n10. Manufacture.\\n11. May virtue and merit ever be the best claims to distinction and regard.\\n12. May the citizens of America ever pay due respect to religion, morality,\\nand equal laws.\\n13. Success to population and industry.\\nTo which were added the following toasts by the rev-\\nerend clergy then present", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nMay America be an asylum to all the distressed people of Europe.\\nPatriotism without party and religion without hypocrisy.\\nMay the Americans ever be valiant in war and subservient to their laws in\\npeace.\\nAt the third triennial meeting of the General Society in\\nPhiladelphia, May 4, 1790, Major John Patten appears to\\nhave been the only representative from Delaware, probably\\nunder the same rule as adopted for the General Meeting\\nof the Society in 1788^\\nThree delegates were, however, elected at the annual\\nmeeting of 1790, to represent the Delaware Society at an\\nextra General Meeting of the Cincinnati held in Philadel-\\nphia, May 2, 1 79 1, viz.: Doctor James Tilton, Major John\\nPatten, and Captain William McKennan, the President, Vice-\\nPresident, and Secretary respectively, of the Society. This\\nmeeting was called for the purpose of urging the States\\nto send full representations at the next triennial meeting\\nof the General Society to be held in Philadelphia on the\\nfirst Monday of May (the 6th), 1793, for the final adoption\\nof the alterations proposed in the Institution of the Cincin-\\nnati as well as to recommend the expediency of the State\\nSocieties obtaining acts of incorporation to secure their\\nfunds for the charitable objects for which originally de-\\nsigned. Two of the delegates from Delaware, Major Patten\\nand Captain McKennan, were appointed by the chair\\n(General Knox) on the Committee to examine the cre-\\ndentials of the delegates from the several States at this\\nSee, also, in Federal Gazette, Phila., July 14, letter from Wilmington, Del.,\\ndated July 10, 1790.\\nf Proceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1790.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "i 746-1800.\\nDESCENDANT, H3N LEONARD EUiENE WALES, WILMINGTON,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 23\\nmeeting.* It was the last one at which the Delaware\\nState Society was represented, no record appearing here-\\nafter of any delegates accredited to that State being\\npresent at the General Meetings of the Cincinnati.\\nThe minutes of the Society for 1793 are as follows:\\nWilmington, July 4, 1793.\\nThe State Society of the Cincinnati met in this borough\\non the 4th instant. At 12 o clock a brilliant assembly\\nconvened at the College, and the occasion being solemnized\\nwith prayers by the Rev. Mr. Clarkson, Captain McKen-\\nnan, agreeably to appointment, pronounced an oration most\\nacceptable to the citizens.\\nThe Society and many respectable citizens then pro-\\nceeded to Mr. Brinton s tavernf and dined together in a\\nmanner expressive of heartfelt joy and satisfaction at\\nanother return of our national birthday. After dinner\\nthe following toasts were drank\\n1. The day that gave birth to a nation and set the example of freedom\\nand independence to the world.\\n2. The United States may they enjoy the blessings of peace, union, and\\nfreedom to the latest ages.\\n3. The President of the United States may long life, health, happiness,\\nand the confidence of his country reward his eminent services.\\n4. The Vice-President and the Congress of the United States\u00e2\u0080\u0094 may wis-\\ndom mark their councils and integrity their conduct.\\n5. The memory of those heroes and patriots who fell in the cause of\\nindependence.\\nProceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1791.\\nf This tavern, known as The Indian King, stood at the southeast corner\\nof Market and Fourth Streets, and, under the proprietorship of David Brinton,\\nwas long a noted inn.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\n6. The friends of freedom and lovers of independence in all parts of the\\nworld.\\n7. The French nation may it soon enjoy the blessings of peace and a\\nfree Constitution.\\n8. Confusion to the counsels of despots, and may tyranny be banished\\nthe earth.\\n9. A union of all free countries to save Poland from the rapacious bands\\nof all spoilers.\\n10. May equal liberty, equal rights, and a government of laws long be the\\nboast of America.\\n11. May America receive into her bosom and cherish the oppressed from\\nall parts of the world.\\n12. Success to the agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of America.\\n13. The arts and sciences, and all who love and promote them.\\n14. Neutrality to America, the best means to promote her happiness and\\nprosperity.\\n15- All our friends and brothers who are doing homage to liberty in cele-\\nbration of the epoch of our independence.\\nIn 1795 the Society met once more at New Castle\\nWilmington, July 8 (1795).\\nThe State Society of the Cincinnati met at New Castle\\non Saturday, the 4th instant, and chose the following offi-\\ncers for the current year:\\nPresident, Major John Patten.\\nVice-President, Major Peter Jaquett.\\nSecretary, Captain William McKennan.\\nTreasurer, Captain Edward Roche.\\nAssistant Treasurer, Doctor George Monro.\\nThe Society then adjourned to dinner, and after dinner\\ndrank the following toasts\\nSee, also, General Advertiser, Phila., Pa., July 9, 1793.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 25\\n1. This Day may the remembrance of it and the glorious effects pro-\\nduced by it never be obliterated from the minds of America.\\n2. The United States may the people thereof be ever mindful of\\nthis political truth, That an incessant attention to the administra-\\ntion of government can alone give permanency to freedom.\\n3. The State of Delaware may the honest industry of its citizens\\nbe equalled by the virtuous patriotism of her representatives.\\n4. The President and Congress of the United States may they\\nwith true wisdom and unshaken fortitude remain uninfluenced,\\nunbiassed, and unawed by any foreign nation whatever.\\n5. The People of France may the storm which has threatened them\\nwith destruction speedily subside, and the sacred rights of liberty\\nand property be established among them on a solid foundation.\\n6. The United Provinces may they avail themselves of the present\\nopportunity afforded them by the prowess of the French arms to\\nestablish a free and happy government.\\n7. The memory of the heroic citizens of Delaware who fell in defence\\nof American Independence.\\n8. Arts and Sciences may the citizens of all free governments remem-\\nber that Information is the nurse of Freedom and Improvement.\\n9. Peace and Commerce a general commercial intercourse with every\\nnation on earth upon honorable principles and reciprocal interests.\\n10. May the triumph of Freedom be the harbinger of Peace to the nations\\nof Europe.\\n11. May all free governments rightly comprehend their mutual as well as\\nindividual interests.\\n12. The American Fair may their importance be enhanced from a just\\nsense of liberty and equality.\\n13. Civilization, instead of extirpation, to our Indian brethren.\\n14. May America, in forming new political engagements, never sacrifice\\nher honor by injustice to her old friends.\\n15. May the Temple of Freedom be established on the ruin of thrones,\\nand all the nations enter its gates.\\nBut the political excitement of the times required a still\\nstronger and more positive expression of opinion by the", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nparticipants of the occasion, and the following volun-\\nteers, we find, were added\\nBy Doctor Tilton No treaty with Britain, but in lieu thereof a non-im-\\nportation agreement.\\nBy Doctor Alexander The people of Great Britain, may they shortly\\nexperience a revolution in the administration of their government.\\nBy Major Bush The ten patriotic senators who refused to ratify the\\nBritish treaty.\\nBy James McCullough The Congress of 1776, who gave birth to this Day.\\nBy Major Jaquett, Vice-President John Jay, may he enjoy the benefits\\nof a Purgatory.\\nOn July 4, 1797, it is stated, the Delaware State Society\\nof the Cincinnati assembled and partook of a dinner pro-\\nvided for the purpose, after which a number of toasts were\\ndrank (similar, no doubt, in character to the above).f\\nThe last regular election of officers and stated meeting\\nof the Society found recorded is in 1799, and reads as\\nfollows\\nWilmington, July 4, 1799.\\nThe Society of the Cincinnati for the State of Delaware\\nmet at this place and elected the following officers for the\\ncurrent year\\nPresident, Major John Patten.\\nVice-President, Major Peter Jaquett.\\nSecretary, Captain Edward Roche.\\nTreasurer, Doctor George Monro.\\nAssistant Treasurer, Captain Caleb P. Bennett.\\nSee, also, Independent Gazetteer, Phila., Pa., July II, and N. Y. Journal,\\nN. Y., July 15, 1795.\\nf See, also, Independent Gazetteer, Phila., Pa., July II, 1797.\\nSee, also, Federal Gazette and Phila. Evening Post, Phila., Pa., July 8,\\n1799.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 27\\nThe only entry for the following year (1800) records\\nthat Captain Edward Roche, secretary of the Delaware\\nState Society of the Cincinnati, prepared and delivered a\\nfuneral oration on the death of General George Washing-\\nton prepared at the\\nrequest of the Society, [^lrt/{$^(JpZ) \u00c2\u00a3,y\\nand pronounced in the\\nSecond Presbyterian\\nChurch in Wilmington on the twenty-second day of\\nFebruary, 1800. Judge Bedford and Major Cass were\\nmasters of the procession and ceremony.\\nThe Society, however, still kept up its membership. We\\nfind twenty (20) names yet on the roll in 1 801, as follows\\nColonel Joseph Vaughan.\\nMajor Robert Kirkwood.\\nMajor James Moore.\\nMajor Daniel Jenifer Adams.\\nMajor Peter Jaquett\\nDoctor James Tilton.\\nDoctor George Monro.\\nCaptain Henry Duff.\\nCaptain Allen McLane.\\nCaptain Thomas Kean.\\nFor oration and full account of this interesting ceremony, see Appendix\\nK also, Reminiscences of Wilmington, by Miss E. Montgomery, pp.\\n297-98. The procession formed in the Town Hall, on Market Street (the\\nprevious arrangements having been made in the old Academy, see note, p.\\n35), and moved down to Second Street, up French Street, and thence to the\\nstone meeting-house, known as the Second Presbyterian Church, at the cor-\\nner of Walnut and Fifth Streets, where the ceremonies were held. The\\nJudge Bedford named above was Gunning Bedford, Junior, the Major Cass", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nCaptain Caleb P. Bennett.\\nSurgeon Reuben Gilder.\\nLieutenant John Piatt.\\nLieutenant John Vance Hyatt.\\nLieutenant Joseph Hosman.\\nLieutenant Stephen McWilliam.\\nLieutenant Charles Kidd.\\nLieutenant Joseph Driskill.\\nJ. Mayo.\\nJohn Jones.*\\nThe following year, however, we find one of its most\\nprominent members, Colonel Allen McLane, petitions the\\nPennsylvania Society, at its annual meeting at Francis\\nwas Major Jonathan Cass, of the Third U. S. Infantry, stationed at the time\\nat, and in command of, the old U. S. Arsenal near Wilmington.\\nThe above-mentioned oration, in the possession of the author, is endorsed\\non the title-page in the handwriting of Captain Roche, as follows\\nTo\\nMiss Betsy Donaldson,\\nas a Memorial of her\\nPolite and Patriotic attentions\\non the 22d February, 1800,\\nin Honor of the Memory of\\nGeorge Washington.\\nBy order of the Society of the Cincinnati\\nof the State of Delaware.\\nEdwd. Roche, Sec y.\\nA copy of this oration is now in the collection of the New York Histor-\\nical Society. See Bulletin, Phila. Library Co., Phila., Pa., 1851, p. 51.\\nThe autograph of Captain Roche, under his portrait in silhouette (opposite\\npage 85), is a facsimile of that in the above dedication.\\nRecords of Delaware Society of Cincinnati. See, also, Scharf s Hist.\\nDelaware, Vol. I., p. 266.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 29\\nHall in Philadelphia, July 5, 1802, to be admitted to mem-\\nbership in that Society, by reason of the Delaware Society,\\nof which he was a former member, having ceased to exist.\\nThe wording of his petition is plaintive. He states that\\nIn the commencement of the struggle for the Independence of America,\\nhe resided with his family in one of the three lower counties then annex d to\\nPennsylvania, now denominated the State of Delaware, and that after the\\ncontest he returned with his family to said State, the better to enable him to\\nsupport them, and that at that time it was more convenient for him to meet\\nthe Society then assembled in said State, and that he did subscribe his name,\\npaid his dues, received his diploma and has since conformed to the rules of\\nsaid Society, as fully appears by the enclosed paper. But that he has to\\nlament a great falling off in said Society owing to death and desertion, so\\nthat it is no more and therefore requests he might be permitted to assemble\\nwith his companions in arms, the members of the Society of Pennsylvania,\\nand be considered as a member of the same from this time.\\nTo this is appended the certificate of the Secretary of\\nthe Delaware Society, as follows\\nI do hereby certify to whom it may concern that Major Allen McLane\\nis a member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Delaware That\\nhe has subscribed and paid one month s pay thereto, and has generally con-\\nformed to the Rules and orders thereof.\\nIn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth\\nday of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two.\\n[Seal.]\\nArchives of Penna. State Society of the Cincinnati.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nThe applicant was accordingly admitted to the Penn-\\nsylvania Society with the proviso that his month s pay be\\ntransferred at the same time. The Treasurer s account in\\nthe latter Society accordingly has the following entry:\\n1802. August 5. To cash from A. McLane, being\\nhis dividend from\\nThe Delaware Society $43.50.\\nThe exact date when the Delaware Society was dis-\\nsolved, or, to speak more correctly, when, on the informa-\\ntion of some of its members, a portion of the members\\nof the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati had voted\\nto dissolve that Society and distributed its funds/ f is not\\neasily settled. No date is given in the report by the Com-\\nmittee in 181 1 appointed to ascertain the present situation\\nof the several State Societies of the Cincinnati, it simply\\ncalls attention to the inconsiderate act of a portion of\\nthe members of one or more State Societies in dissolving-\\ntheir official connection as members of the Cincinnati and\\nin distributing those funds which had long ceased to be\\nindividual property, or liable to any but their original\\nappropriation.\\nThe Committee s report was unanimously adopted by\\nthe General Society, and the Secretary-General was in-\\nstructed to forward a draft of the circular letter which the\\nCommittee had submitted with its report, to the Presidents\\nSee Records of Penna. State Society of the Cincinnati, 1891, pp.\\n60, 61.\\nf See Report of Col. Elias Boudinot, Chairman of Committee, Proceed-\\nings of General Society of the Cincinnati, Aug. 9, 181 1.\\nIbid.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "*ZSZ\u00c2\u00a3-\\n1746-1829.\\nPOSSESSION OF FA", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 3 1\\nof the respective State Societies, or to such member thereof\\nas would cause it to be laid before said Society.\\nThe circular for Delaware, although that State Society had\\ndissolved, was duly authenticated by the President-General\\nand Secretary-General, by unanimous order in General\\nMeeting, and sent to the care of one of its former most\\ninfluential original members {query, Allen McLane?),\\nurging as the best corrective, despite its dissolution and the\\ndistribution of its funds, the immediate renewal of that\\nendeared intercourse, and earnestly recommending to that\\nState Society to send delegates to a special meeting\\nappointed for the following year (thus clearly showing the\\nso-called dissolution of the Delaware Society was never\\naccepted by the General body). In consequence, however,\\nof the decease or dispersion of the Delaware members, the\\nforegoing recommendation of the General Society was found\\nimpossible of execution.*\\nAt a meeting of the Standing Committee of the New\\nYork State Society of the Cincinnati on August 2, 1804,\\na letter was read from Edward Roach (Roche f), late\\nSecretary of the Delaware State Society, stating that that\\nSociety had been dissolved long since and the funds been\\ndivided among its members. f This letter is lost from the\\narchives of the New York Society, as is also the circular\\nSee Report of Col. Elias Boudinot, Chairman of Committee, Proceed-\\nings of General Society of the Cincinnati, Aug. 9, 181 1 also, Precedents\\nand Ordinances of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1885, by A. B.\\nGardiner, LL.D., pp. 10, II.\\nf Hist. Society of the Cincinnati, by Hon. Hamilton Fish, 1884, p. 47.\\nAlso, Records of N. Y. State Society of the Cincinnati.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nletter of the Delaware Society of November 6, 1783\\n(before cited), which was read before the New York Society\\non February 3, 1784, and a Committee appointed, consist-\\ning of Brigadier- General Philip Van Cortlandt, Lieutenant-\\nColonel Edward Antill, and Lieutenant-Colonel Richard\\nPiatt, to draft an answer. This Committee reported their\\nreply to the Standing Committee on February 9, 1784, when\\nit was adopted, signed by the President of the New York\\nSociety and forwarded to the Delaware Society, but as\\nthese letters were not recorded in the New York Society s\\nminutes, their full context cannot be now ascertained.*\\nIn a memorandum presented to the Massachusetts\\nSociety of the Cincinnati, in June, 18 12, we find it stated\\nthat the Society was dissolved in Delaware by a formal\\nvote in July, 1802, and the funds were resumed in due pro-\\nportions by those who had furnished them. f\\nMr. Lloyd P. Smith, late librarian of the Philadelphia Li-\\nbrary Company, in his Bulletin of 1885, states: The Dela-\\nware Society was dissolved about the year 1804, the more\\nattached of the members carrying their share of the funds\\ninto the Pennsylvania Society. The archives are lost\\nPer contra, Scharf, in his very complete and recent His-\\ntory of Delaware, says the Society of the Cincinnati in\\nDelaware continued in Wilmington for over half a century,\\nand then ceased to exist, while the exact date has been\\nRecords of N. Y. State Society of the Cincinnati.\\nf Hist, of N. C. State Society of Cincinnati, by E. G. Daves, 1894, p.\\n14. Also, Records of Mass. State Society of Cincinnati.\\nBulletin Phila. Library Co., Phila., Pa., 1851, p. 51.\\nScharf s Hist. Delaware, Vol. I., p. 266.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 33\\nrecently fixed, by a most excellent authority in another of\\nthe State Societies of the Cincinnati, as being as late as\\n1828.*\\nOn July 4, 1 82 1, Mr. John R. Latimer, eldest son of\\nDr. Henry Latimer, an original member of the Delaware\\nSociety, was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania So-\\nciety. The Treasurer s account has the following entry\\n1822. June 24. By cash rec d from\\nJ. R. Latimer 0i2O. t\\nThese two preceding-named admissions (Colonel Allen\\nMcLane and John R. Latimer, by descent), with that of\\nMajor James Moore, afterwards Assistant Treasurer of the\\nPennsylvania Society (1798- 1800) J appear to be the only\\ncases where the Delaware Society was afterwards repre-\\nsented in another State Society.\\nA long lapse of time now ensues, in which no reference\\nis made to the Delaware Society by the General Society\\nin its triennial proceedings, other than to repeatedly deplore\\nthe fact of the non-existence of this with other extinct or\\ndormant State Societies. Finally, a committee having been\\nRichard M. McSherry, Esq., Treasurer of Maryland State Society of the\\nCincinnati.\\nf Records of Penna. State Society of the Cincinnati, 1891, p. 66.\\nIbid., p. 77. See, also, Winthrop Sargent s Journal General Meeting\\nof Cincinnati Society, 17S4.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nappointed by the General Society to examine documents,\\netc., it reports as follows, at the meeting of the General\\nSociety in Boston, Mass., May 27, 1857\\nOf the Delaware papers no trace has yet been discov-\\nered.\\nJust three years after this report, however, the original\\nroll of the Delaware Society, containing the names of all\\nthe members, with their respective ranks, the amount paid\\nin by each, together with the total fund of the Society (a\\nlittle over fifteen hundred dollars), was discovered on the\\nauthority of Hon. Hamilton Fish in Philadelphia by a\\nfortunate accident, and preserved from destruction by John\\nR. Latimer, the son of one of the original members, and\\nthen President of the Pennsylvania Society.f\\nWe think, also, it has been already shown that a con-\\nsiderable portion of the records of the Society still exist\\nthe foregoing proceedings of each meeting having been\\ngiven in full in order to show the patriotic spirit that\\nanimated the members throughout the existence of the\\nSociety. Possibly, too, the formation of the Patriotic\\nSociety in Wilmington and New Castle, in 1792, by\\nProceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, 1857.\\nI Memorandum of Hon. Hamilton Fish, President-General of the Cincin-\\nnati, dated May 2, 1S60, and on file in archives of the N. Y. State Society.\\nThe Constitution of The Patriotic Society of the County of New Castle,\\nin the State of Delaware (and which is in the possession of the writer),\\ndeclares the Public Good to be its sole object, and, among its other prin-\\nciples, announced, that it is both our right and our duty, as well as that of\\nevery other freeman, to regard with attention and discuss with freedom the\\nconduct of the public servants in every department of Government; and\\nthat it is therefore the duty of every good citizen and shall be the constant", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.\\n35\\nofficers and soldiers of the Revolution, had a great deal to\\ndo with the gradual extinction of the Cincinnati in Dela-\\nware, by reason of being a more popular organization\\nthan the latter. Dr. James Tilton was likewise (in 1797)\\nPresident of\\nthe former,\\nDr. George\\nMonro Sec-\\nretary, and\\nAlexander Harvey Treasurer. The Society at one time\\nnumbered over fifty members, and met in the old Wilming-\\nton Academy, long since vanished.*\\nendeavor of this Society, not only to remove prejudices, to conciliate the\\naffections, to inform the understanding, and to promote the happiness of all\\nour fellow-citizens, but to detect and publish to the world every violation of\\nour Constitutions or instance of maladministration. The Society consisted\\nof a General Meeting of the Associators within the County and of Meetings\\nof the Associators in every hundred in the County, the former Meeting\\nbeing held quarterly, the latter at their discretion. James McCullough was\\nPresident, and John Bird, Secretary of this political organization (for such it\\neventually became) in the year 1794.\\nThe old Wilmington Acad-\\nemy stood on the south side of\\nthe King s Road, or Market\\nStreet, between Eighth and Ninth\\nStreets, and was a two-story stone\\nedifice, similar in appearance to\\nthe old Rodney House, yet stand-\\ning, in Wilmington, at Tenth and\\nBroome Streets. It is stated in\\nthe early records that a lot which\\nhad been the property of Peter\\nStalcopp was purchased by Jonathan Daws and afterwards given by him\\nWILMINGTON ACADEMY.\\nFounded 1772-73.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nMany of the original members of the Society of the\\nCincinnati, however, were still regarded with affectionate\\nesteem by the mass of the citizens, and were honored later\\nin their lives with the highest office within the people s\\nto build the Academy, which was erected in 1772-3. The lot extended to\\nKing s Street, in the rear, the building itself standing back from the road\\nwith a high wall in front and with large gates. Some of the old trees of the\\nformer grove were left standing. The ordinary English branches, with the\\nGreek and Latin languages, were taught by a body of able instructors.\\nThe first trustees of the Grammar School, or the Academy, as it was\\npopularly known, were the owners of names well known and prominent in\\nthe affairs of both Delaware and Pennsylvania, viz. Rev. Lawrence Girelius,\\nRev. Philip Reading, Richard McWilliam, George Read, Thomas Duff,\\nEsq., James Lea, Joseph Staplers, John Jones, Theodore Maurice, Jonas\\nStidham, Nicholas Way, George Evans, Joseph Shallcross, Vincent Gilpin,\\nand Jonathan Daws, all of New Castle County; also, the celebrated Rev.\\nWilliam Smith, D.D., first Provost of the College and Academy of Philadel-\\nphia, Rev. Richard Peters, of Christ Church, and Rev. Jacob Duche, of St.\\nPeter s Church (likewise of Philadelphia), Thomas Mifflin, Joseph Pember-\\nton, Myers Fisher, Thomas Gilpin, and Benjamin Wyncoop, all of the same\\ncity.\\nIn 1803 the Academy was incorporated as a College, and the following\\ndistinguished body of trustees from Delaware and Philadelphia, Pa., ap-\\npointed: Right Rev. William White, D.D., Rev. William Smith, D.D.,\\nMyers Fisher, John Dickinson, Thomas Duff, Joseph Tattnall, Jacob Broome,\\nGunning Bedford, James A. Bayard, Csesar Rodney, Daniel Rodney, Thomas\\nRead, David Hall, Nicholas Ridgely, James Wilson, James Lea, Dr. Henry\\nLatimer, Dr. George Monro, Dr. Ebenezer Augustus Smith, Joseph Tilton,\\nJoseph Gilpin, Robert Hamilton, William Halliwell, James Sykes, William\\nWarner, Outerbridge Horsey, Andrew Barrett, William McKee, and George\\nKennard men representing all sects of religion and all shades of political\\nfeeling.\\nIt was in this old historic building (virtually the Town Hall) in which\\nportions of conflicting armies had in succession been quartered during the\\nRevolution, and which had been at different times converted into a barrack", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 37\\ngift, that of governor of the State. Such were Colonel\\nDavid Hall, Major Nathaniel Mitchell, and Captain Caleb\\nPrew Bennett (the\\nlast surviving officer ^2^^fezS?Z^\\nof the Delaware line) SL___g^__J^ S^\u00e2\u0080\u0094Z H^\\nalso Joseph Haslet,\\nthe son of Colonel John Haslet, who fell at Princeton.\\nDr. Tilton\\nwas after-\\nwards ap-\\npointed by\\nPresident Madison Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army in\\nthe War of 1812; and Colonel Allen McLane, besides\\nholding several important public offices in the State of\\nDelaware, became Treasurer-General of the Cincinnati in\\n1825, and so remained until his decease, in 1829; while\\nMajor William Popham, in 1844, became President of the\\nNew York Society, and afterwards President-General.\\nJohn R. Latimer, son of Surgeon Henry Latimer, became\\nlikewise President of the Pennsylvania Society. Major\\nand a hospital, that all the noted gatherings during the latter part of the\\npreceding century took place. All the arrangements for the procession of\\nthe Cincinnati on February 22, 1800 (before alluded to), were here concerted,\\nand here the Society repeatedly assembled on its anniversary meetings until\\nits final dissolution. For over fifty years the old building stood a landmark\\nin the centre of Wilmington, until, neglected and sadly in need of repair, it\\nwas abandoned to baser uses and finally demolished. (See Reminiscences\\nof Wilmington, by Miss E. Montgomery, pp. 293-98.)\\nThe above drawing of the Academy is from the only one known, in the\\npossession of Mr. Amos C. Brinton, one of Wilmington s oldest inhabitants,\\nand was copied through his kind permission by the author.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nJoseph Anderson, appointed by Washington a judge of the\\nUnited States Courts, served afterwards as United States\\nSenator from Tennessee and as Comptroller of the National\\nTreasury. The gallant Major Robert Kirkwood, a soldier\\nto the last, fell in St. Clair s defeat on the Miami, November\\n4, 1 79 1. Captain Edward Roche, the last Secretary of the\\nSociety, was a Justice of the Peace in Wilmington for\\nnearly thirty years, and was also one of the last survivors\\n(dying in 1821), with Major Peter Jaquett, who died in the\\nyear 1835, and Governor Bennett, the final officer of the\\nDelaware line, as stated, who deceased in 1836.*\\nAnd so ends the history of the comparatively brief\\nexistence of the old Delaware State Society of the Cincin-\\nnati. Who and where, we may well inquire, are the\\nworthy descendants of the brave Delaware line regiment or\\nits contemporaries, to revive it Many yet survive to this\\nday, within our call, in this or adjacent States, faithfully\\npreserving, we find, the golden eagles of insignia, together\\nwith the portraits and diplomas of membership in the\\nSociety, of their heroic ancestors while the names and\\ndeeds of Haslet, Hall, Patten, Pope, and Tilton of Kirk-\\nwood, Jaquett, and McLane of the Read, Rodney, and\\nRudolphf families (each of which latter named furnished\\nthree or four members equally distinguished for gallantry\\nSee Record of personal and military services of original members of\\nDelaware State Society of the Cincinnati, Appendix B.\\nf The Ru-\\ndolphs alone\\nfurnished two\\nmembers", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 39\\nin the war for American Independence) are still not only-\\nhousehold words throughout the State, but have been also\\nrepeated by their worthy representatives in each successive\\nwar in our country as well as in positions of honor in civil\\nlife, to the present day.\\nAnd while we trust this earnest appeal for the speedy-\\nresuscitation of the Society of the Delaware Cincinnati may\\nnot be in vain, let us also hope that its members may in the\\nfuture, in their reunited brotherhood, and with a patriotic\\npride in the past history of their gallant little State, cherish\\nthe spirit as well of this most honorable of all American in-\\nstitutions, of which the immortal Washington himself was\\nits first head, and so continued until the hour of his death.\\nIn the words of the motto of the Order, Esto perpetua.\\nJohn and Michael as officers to Lee s Partisan Legion, and who were dis-\\ntinguished not only all through the Southern campaign of 1780-82 (see Ap-\\npendix A, p. 40), but the latter named of the two being also brevetted by\\n^L\\nCongress for special gallantry at the storming of Paulus Hook (now Jersey\\nCity), in New Jersey. (Resolution of U. S. Congress, September 24, 1779.)\\nAfter the war he was appointed Major and Commandant of the Squadron of\\nCavalry, United States Legion, also Adjutant and Inspector-General U. S. Army.\\nA third representative, Jacob, was a captain of Pennsylvania partisan\\ntroops, and was taken prisoner in the battle of Brandywine while still an-\\nother, his brother John, captured at the beginning of the Revolution, at Fort\\nWashington, in November, 1776, afterwards served throughout the war as\\nan officer of the Pennsylvania line.\\nSee Pa. Archives, Second Series, Vols. X., XIV., and XV. Also, John-\\nston s Hist. Cecil Co., Md.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX A.\\nA Brief Account of the Delaware Regiments in the\\nRevolution.\\nThe following brief narration of the history of the two\\nDelaware regiments in the Revolutionary War has been\\nmainly taken from the original journal of Sergeant-Major\\nWilliam Seymour, of the Delaware line, now in the posses-\\nsion of, and republished by, the Historical Society of Penn-\\nsylvania,* as well as from the personal recollections of Gov-\\nernor Caleb Prew Bennett, an officer in the same regiment,\\npublished by the same Society.f Reference has also been\\nfreely made to the Annals of Delaware in the Dela-\\nware Register, Vol. II. (1839), ano to tne Hon. William\\nG. Whiteley s address on the Revolutionary Soldiers of\\nDelaware, read before the Delaware Historical Society\\nsome twenty years since, and afterwards, by request, before\\nthe two houses of the Delaware Legislature. By reason of\\nthe lapse of time and the comparative rarity of all these\\nnamed publications, as well as of the possible necessity for\\nfrequent reference to the subject, the author has thought it\\nwell to append a resume of the services of these troops, led\\nby the officers so repeatedly mentioned in the foregoing\\npages.\\nPa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., Vol. VII., Nos. 3 and 4 (1883).\\nf Ibid., Vol. IX., No. 4 (1885) and Niles Register, Sept. 2, -1843.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "^T J 7y\\n1758-1:\\nENOANT, CALVIN SMITH BENNETT, NATCHEZ, MISS.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 4 1\\nSeveral errors, however, in regard to both names and\\ndates have been found, by comparison with the original\\nrecords, to exist in the last-named paper. These but only\\nwhere absolutely certain of being right the author has\\nventured to correct, aware of the fact that similar inaccura-\\ncies may possibly be found in the future, by others having\\nadditional data at hand, in these pages.\\nThe entire population of Delaware at the commencement\\nof the Revolution was only about 37,000, and the number\\nof troops the State could furnish could not necessarily be\\nvery large yet, by the second year of the war, it supplied\\nand sent to the front three organizations, viz. Colonels\\nHaslet and Hall s regiments and Colonel Patterson s bat-\\ntalion, besides a partisan company under the command of\\nCaptain Allen McLane. Colonel Henry Neill had also, in\\nthe latter part of the war, a regiment called the Second\\nDelaware battalion, but it does not appear to have been in\\nany action.*\\nHaslet s regiment,f composed of State troops in Con-\\ntinental service, that is, troops organized under the\\nA writer in the Freeman s Journal, of Philadelphia, October 8, 1783,\\nstates that Delaware furnished double its quota of troops in proportion to\\npopulation, as compared to Pennsylvania and other larger States. The Dela-\\nware soldiers, including Continentals and militia, enlisted and in service,\\nfrom 1775 to 1783, were as follows:\\n1776.\\n754\\n1780\\n556\\n1777\\n1299\\n1781\\n89\\n1778.\\n349\\n1782\\n164\\n1779.\\n317\\n1783.\\nTotal\\n235\\n3763\\nf See Appendix C, p. 72.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nColonial laws and furnished by the Delaware State upon\\nthe call of Congress, who appointed their field officers,\\nremained in service only until after the battle of Princeton,\\nJanuary 3, 1777.\\nHall s regiment* was the only strictly Continental one\\nfurnished by Delaware that saw active service. It was\\norganized under a law of the Continental Congress, and\\nthis is the regiment always referred to when mention is\\nmade during the war of the Delaware Regiment.\\nPatterson s battalionf was a part of the Flying Camp,\\nas it was called, a body of men called out by Congress in\\nthe fall of 1776 from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,\\nand Maryland, to protect the Middle Colonies and to serve\\nuntil December 1, 1776. Being undisciplined militia, their\\nrecord was not satisfactory, and they returned to their\\nhomes at the expiration of their brief term of service, hav-\\ning had but one slight skirmish with the enemy.\\nDelaware, by an Act of the General Assembly, passed\\nJune 21,1 780, raised a fourth regiment, and the command was\\nassigned to Colonel Henry Neill.| It was the second Con-\\ntinental regi-\\nment mus-\\ntered into the\\nservice of the\\nUnited States\\nfrom that\\nState. It was called Continental Regiment, No. 38, was\\nSee Appendixes D and E, pp. 75 and 78.\\nf See Appendix G, p. 81.\\nSee Appendix F, p. 80.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 43\\nstationed in Kent County, Maryland, and served but a\\nlimited period.*\\nThe services of Captain Allen McLane s partisan com-\\npany, whether as an independent command or afterwards as\\npart of Lee s Corps, are too well known to require here\\ndetailed repetition. f\\nDelaware, however, says Whiteley,\\nHad great cause in the main to be proud of the conduct and heroism\\nof its Revolutionary soldiers. In less than a month after the Declaration of\\nIndependence the State had eight hundred men in the field, who fought at\\nBrooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton, when the regiment, reduced\\nto only one hundred officers and men, and its colonel killed while gallantly\\nleading it into action, virtually ceased to exist.\\nIn April, 1777, however, another regiment took its place, which fought at\\nBrandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Camden, Cowpens, Guilford, Ninety\\nSix, and Eutaw, and this latter organization never laid down its arms, though\\nreduced to almost a mere handful of men, until Cornwallis surrendered at\\nYorktown and Leslie evacuated Charleston.\\nIn fact, there was not a battle during the Revolution worthy of the name,\\nexcept those at Bunker s Hill and at Yorktown, in which one of the two\\nDelaware regiments did not participate with credit. And even at Yorktown,\\nthough Hall s regiment itself, or rather what was left of it, was not present, it\\nbeing at that time with Greene in the Carolinas, yet seven hundred recruits,\\nraised in Delaware and Maryland for Kirkwood s and Smallwood s battalions,\\nwere stopped on their way to join their respective commands and ordered to\\njoin the American army before Yorktown, and thus the regiment itself may\\nbe said to have participated there also in the siege, the decisive battle, and\\nconclusive victory of the war.\\nThe first Delaware Regiment, under the brave Haslet,\\nin August, 1776, joined the head-quarters of the army,\\nSee Life of John Neill, of Lewes, Del., and Descendants (private\\nedition), 1875; a so Remembrancer, Vol. X., part 2, London, 1780.\\nf See Appendix H, p. 82.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nwhich was then at New York, the troops marching from\\nDover to New York without tents, and probably supplying\\nthemselves with provisions along the route. The regiment\\nwas brigaded with Smallwood s Maryland and four Penn-\\nsylvania regiments, Lord Sterling being in command of the\\nbrigade. On the 27th of August, not more than five weeks\\nafter their marching from their native State, the Dela-\\nwareans were in the battle of Brooklyn, or Long Island,\\nand behaved with the courage, the discipline, and the\\nsteadiness of veteran soldiers.\\nIt was stated at the time that the Delaware, with the\\nMaryland and Pennsylvania troops, fought as bravely as\\nmen could possibly do. The latter became separated, by\\nwhich means the enemy obliged them to fight in small\\nparties. But the Delawares, being well trained, kept and\\nfought in a compact body the whole time, and, when obliged\\nto retreat, preserved their ranks, and entered the lines in\\nthat order; and were obliged frequently, while retreating,\\nto fight their way through bodies of the enemy. Caesar\\nRodney, also, in a letter at the time to his brother Thomas\\nRodney, speaks of\\nthe great honor obtained by the Delaware Battalion in the affair at Long\\nIsland, from the unparalleled bravery they showed in view of all the Generals\\nand troops within the lines, who alternately praised and pitied them.\\nIn a subsequent letter he says,\\nThe Delaware and Maryland regiments stood firm to the last they stood\\nfor four hours drawn up on a hill, in close array, their colors flying, the\\nenemy s artillery playing upon them, nor did they think of quitting their\\nstation until an express order from the General commanded them to retreat.\\nThe standard was torn with shot in Ensign Stephen s hands.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 45\\nLieutenants Stewart and Harvey were killed Major\\nMacdonough, who was in command, Lieutenant Anderson,\\nand Ensign Corse were wounded.\\nThe next general battle in which the regiment partici-\\npated was that of White Plains then at Trenton, on\\nChristmas day, 1776. The battle of Princeton followed in\\nten days afterwards,\\nand here the brave\\nColonel Haslet fell in\\nthe first attack on the\\nBritish lines at sun-\\nrise. Soon after, the\\nregiment, greatly reduced in numbers and never reor-\\nganized, was disbanded the majority of officers and men\\nhaving left to serve in the new Continental regiment called\\nfor by resolve of Congress (of September 16, 1776) to\\nserve during the war. By reference to the following rolls,\\nit will be readily perceived how many officers of the\\nfirst Delaware Regiment obtained appointments in Colonel\\nHall s new regiment. These officers, doubtless, also car-\\nried off a great number of their men. The former were\\ncommissioned by Congress, though their appointment, ex-\\ncept as to general officers, was left to the government of\\nthe several States, which provided arms and clothing for\\nthe men.\\nThis second regiment became the justly celebrated\\nDelaware Line. The first company to join it was Cap-\\ntain John Patten s the second was Captain Robert Kirk-\\nwood s, both in the latter part of 1776. Six other\\ncompanies joined during the winter, and the regiment was", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "46 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nfilled to the standard of eight hundred men by the fol-\\nlowing spring, though there were the usual difficulties and\\ndelays in clothing, equipping, and arming it*\\nIt is not easy to obtain a correct or complete history of\\nthe regiment for the years 1777-79, there being in the\\nState House at Dover but few original rolls, or other\\nreturns of any kind, of the regiment; our main reliance\\nbeing on the private papers and letters of the officers and\\nmen, and these are few and difficult to find at the present\\nday.\\nWe know, however, the regiment joined Washington in\\nthe Jerseys in the spring of 1777, and participated in the\\nbattles of Monmouth, Brandywine, and Germantown. Its\\nmembers also shared the privations and bore the sufferings\\nof the dreary winter at Valley Forge, as became true\\nAmerican soldiers.f\\nIt was in the southern campaigns, however, where the\\nThe receipt on the opposite page, later in the same year, when Colonel\\nPope was in command, owing to Colonel Hall having been seriously wounded\\nat the battle of Germantown, is in the handwriting of George Read, signer\\nof the Declaration of Independence, and is photographed directly from the\\noriginal. See, also, petition of officers of Delaware regiment to General\\nAssembly of the Delaware State, dated December 4, 1779, P ra y m g f\u00c2\u00b0 r relief\\nin the matter of supplies of provisions and clothing. Scharf s History of\\nDelaware, Vol. I., p. 250 also Whiteley s Revolutionary Soldiers of Dela-\\nware, pp. 52, 53. The original of this interesting document, with the sig-\\nnatures of all the officers appended, together with the official action of the\\ntwo Houses of the General Assembly thereon, is now in the archives of the\\nDelaware State Society of the Cincinnati.\\nf See Caleb P. Bennett s Narrative of the Delaware Regiment in the\\nRevolution, Pa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., Vol. IX. (1885).", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "fc w a\\n2\\n2 f 2\\n5 f 1 3\\nH N\\nM 8 H\\nW B H\\nCi\\nK W\\nH e 2\\nD 5 p)\\nr w 2\\nb w\\nw M\\nw M H\\nw\\nkM v-^\\nI3W", "height": "3265", "width": "3616", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 47\\nregiment won its immortality. On April 13, 1780, the\\nDelaware and Maryland troops, then encamped around\\nMorristown in New Jersey, were ordered South. On\\nApril 16, they took up their line of march, two regi-\\nments from Maryland and one from Delaware, each about\\nfive hundred strong, or some fifteen hundred men in all.\\nThe brave Baron de Kalb was assigned as their com-\\nmander.\\nColonel Hall did not march with his regiment, nor did\\nhe ever join it again, having been disabled by his wounds\\nreceived at Germantown from taking the field. Lieutenant-\\nColonel Pope was on furlough at the time of march (having\\nbeen also wounded at Mamaroneck), and did not go South.\\nMajor Joseph Vaughan was therefore in command. The\\nregiments marched from Morristown to the head of Elk, as\\nit was then called (now Elkton), in Cecil County, Maryland.\\nThis march was through Philadelphia and Wilmington, a\\ndistance of one hundred and eight miles. They were\\nveterans of three years service, as thoroughly trained and\\ndisciplined, as brave and good soldiers as were to be found\\nin the Continental Army, and if Greene had then been in\\ncommand of the Southern Department instead of Gates,\\ntheir worse than decimation at Camden would have been\\navoided and the lives of many of these brave and patriotic\\nmen saved.\\nFrom the head of Elk all the troops were taken by water\\nto Petersburg, in Virginia, except the park of artillery,\\nwhich proceeded by land, under escort of a detachment\\nfrom all the line. The journal of Sergeant-Major William\\nSeymour gives a complete and exceedingly interesting", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\naccount of the entire campaign.* The description of the\\nmarches, the condition of the troops, their want of provi-\\nsions, and their losses in battle are all fully and vividly-\\nrelated. Leaving Petersburg, the column proceeded south-\\nward by the way of Hillsborough, in North Carolina (four\\nhundred and seventy miles from the Elk), to Buffalo Ford,\\non Deep River, where General Gates took command of the\\nentire Southern army.\\nThey were now approaching Camden, the scene of their\\nfirst great battle in the South, where, though the issue was\\nso disastrous to the American forces, the Delaware and\\nMaryland lines won imperishable renown. It is not the\\nintention here to describe in detail this, or indeed any other,\\nbattle in which these troops were afterwards engaged, to\\ndo so would be foreign to the object and scope of this\\npaper. The battle of Camden was fought on August 16,\\n1780, and resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the\\nAmerican troops, though the Delaware and Maryland sol-\\ndiers covered themselves with glory in saving the remainder\\nof the routed army from annihilation. The former regi-\\nment at the commencement of the battle was five hundred\\nstrong at its close and the fight lasted scarcely an\\nhour less than two hundred officers and men remained\\nLieutenant-Colonel Vaughan and Major John Patten were\\namong the prisoners, and the command for the remainder\\nof the war devolved\\nmainly upon the glo-\\nrious Kirkwood, he of\\nwhom Seymour writes in panegyric that\\nSee Pa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., Vol. VII. (1883).", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 49\\nHis (Kirkwood s) heroick valour and uncommon and undaunted bravery\\nmust needs be recorded in history till after years.\\nAt Charlotte and Hillsborough, Kirkwood afterwards\\ncollected what remained of the regiment; and three com-\\npanies of light infantry being formed out of the combined\\ndifferent corps, to the command of one of them com-\\nposed of the remnants of the Delaware and Second Mary-\\nland Regiments Captain Kirkwood was assigned.\\nThey participated in all the battles under Greene (who\\nhad relieved Gates) in the South from this time until the\\nevacuation of Charleston by the British, near the close of\\nthe war, which was virtually ended with the surrender of\\nCornwallis at Yorktown, in the fall of the preceding year.\\nAt Guilford Court-House, Hobkirk s Hill, Eutaw Springs,\\nand Ninety Six this gallant band immortalized themselves.\\nGeneral Greene, in his report to Congress of the battle at\\nGuilford, mentions in the most commendatory manner the\\nold Delaware company of light infantry, under the brave Captain Kirk-\\nwood, whose conduct and intrepidity were peculiarly conspicuous;\\nand Lee speaks of\\nthe company of Delaware, under Kirkwood, to whom none could be supe-\\nHenry Lee, in his edition of his father s Memoirs of the War in the\\nSouthern Department of the United States, says, by way of comparison, in\\nspeaking of Captain Edward Oldham, of the Fourth Maryland line, too\\nmuch praise cannot be given him. He (Captain Oldham) was engaged in\\nalmost every action in the South, and was uniformly distinguished for gal-\\nlantry and good conduct. With the exception of Kirkwood of Delaware and\\nRudolph of the Legion Infantry, he was probably entitled to more credit than\\nany officer of his rank in Greene s army, a distinction which must place him\\nhigh on the rolls of fame.\\n4", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nThe same praise is bestowed upon these troops in suc-\\ncessive engagements with the enemy. In fact, there is\\nscarcely a general order issued by Greene in this whole\\ncampaign, after any of its battles, in which the Delaware\\nbattalion is not particularly named as meriting especial\\npraise. In the siege and storming of the post of Ninety\\nSix, Colonel Henry Lee led Kirkwood s Delawares with the\\ntroops of his own legion, and, with the intrepid Captain\\nJohn Rudolph* leading the forlorn hope in advance, was\\nthe first to enter the fort. Though the attack failed, the\\ngallantry of these troops was again commented on in orders\\nby the commander of the American forces.\\nCongress, when the report of Greene of the battle of\\nEutaw was received, passed a resolution of thanks in which\\nit was resolved,\\nThat the thanks of the United States in Congress assembled be presented\\nto the officers and men of the Maryland and Virginia brigades and Delaware\\nbattalion of Continental troops, for the unparalleled bravery and heroism by\\nthem displayed in advancing to the enemy through an incessant fire and\\ncharging them with an impetuosity and order that could not be resisted.\\nTheir final year of service is described by Bennett suc-\\ncinctly as follows\\nThe Pennsylvanians, Marylanders, and Delawares, under the command\\nof General St. Clair, after the surrender at Yorktown, proceeded South to\\njoin the army in South Carolina under General Greene, where we arrived,\\nafter a long and fatiguing march, the first day of January, 1782. On our\\narrival we (the Delaware detachment, commanded by Captain William\\nMcKennan), of course, took our station in Colonel William Washington s\\nlegion, composed of the remains of his regiment of horse and the shattered\\nremains of the Delaware regiment, under the command of Captain Robert\\nWritten indifferently Rudolph and Rudwlph in the reports.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 5 1\\nKirkwood, with Captain Peter Jaquett, Lieutenants James Campbell and\\nThomas Anderson, who had been in command of the two companies of said\\nregiment and had remained with the Southern army since the battle of\\nCamden, August 1 6, 1780.\\nWhen the officers above mentioned and the invalids, with several other\\nnon-commissioned officers and soldiers belonging to Delaware, were relieved\\nby those under the command of Captain William McKennan, with Captain\\nPaul Queenault, Lieutenants Hyatt and Bennett, they proceeded soon after\\non their route for the State of Delaware. Our forces were then concentrated\\nunder General Greene, the army proceeded down towards Charleston, where\\nthe British were in force (the ilite of the army was composed of the two\\nlegions, Washington s and Lee s, with a detachment from the line of the\\narmy under the command of Major James Hamilton, of Pennsylvania), and\\ntook up a position on the Ashley River and was constantly kept on the alert,\\nnever stationary the whole or part of the command being continually on the\\nlines watching the movements of the enemy.\\nThe troops, both British and American, for the remainder of the cam-\\npaign were inactive, the heat of the weather and the sickly season had arrived.\\nThe army retired from active service, and remained in that situation until it\\nwas understood the British army was on the eve of evacuating Charleston,\\nthe only position then held in the Southern States.\\nSoon after, Captain William McKennan and his command were ordered\\nto proceed to the State of Delaware, there to wait for further orders.\\nAnd, as a concluding chapter in this brief history, Ser-\\ngeant-Major Seymour closes his journal in these words\\nOn November 7th (1782), the Maryland and Pennsylvania troops were\\nformed into two battalions or regiments, each consisting of six hundred men,\\nrank and file, the eighteen months men being sent home to their respective\\nStates. At the same time the Delaware regiment had orders to hold them-\\nselves in readiness to march home from the southward on the 16th of\\nNovember.\\nOn the same day started from head-quarters on the Ashley River for\\nPa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., Vol. IX. (1SS5).", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nhome, coming by way of Camden. Having arrived there November 22,\\nwere detained thirteen days by orders from General Greene left on Decem-\\nber 5, coming by way of Salisbury, Petersburgh, Carter s Ferry, on James\\nRiver, we arrived at Georgetown, in Maryland, January 12, 1783; left there\\nthe same day and arrived at Christiana Bridge on the 17th, after a march of\\nseven hundred and twenty miles from encampment on Ashley River, which\\nwas performed with very much difficulty, our men being so very weak after\\na tedious sickness which prevailed amongst them all last summer and fall.\\nNo eulogy of the Delaware Line in the Revolution is\\nneeded to be added at this day. The simple recountal of\\nits history and its services is sufficient, it would seem, to\\nperpetuate for all time the heroism, the endurance, and the\\npatriotism of its officers and its men.\\nPa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., Vol. VII. (1883).", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "I75I-I79 6\\nPORTRAIT IN POSSESSION OF DESCEND*\\nCHARLES BHECK ADAMS, FEROUSON,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 53\\nAPPENDIX B.\\nRecord of Personal and Military Services of Original\\nMembers of Delaware State Society\\nof the Cincinnati.\\nAdams, Daniel Jenifer, born at Port Tobacco, Charles\\nCounty, Maryland, 175 1 the son of Josias and Ann\\n(Jenifer) Adams. Commissioned First Lieutenant Captain\\nBeall s Independent Company, Maryland Militia, January\\n14, 1776; Brigade-Major to General Beall, of Maryland\\nFlying Camp, August 27 to December 1, 1776; Major\\nSeventh Maryland Regiment, Continental Establishment,\\nApril 1, 1777; resigned June 8, 1779. Served after war\\nas Brigadier-General of Militia and Sheriff of New Castle\\nCounty, Delaware. Elected as a delegate to the General\\nMeeting of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1787. Died\\nNovember, 1796, and buried in Old Swedes Church, Wil-\\nmington, Delaware.*\\nAdams, William, son of Captain Nathan Adams, of\\nColonel John Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops,\\nHis portrait by Peale and certificate of membership in Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati are in possession of his great-grandson, Charles Breck Adams, Fergu-\\nson, St. Louis Co., Missouri. This and all the other certificates of membership\\nare signed by General Washington as President, and General Knox as Secre-\\ntary of the Society, and dated April 26, 1787.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Xp /no Cfl ijfwcfa n^-\\n54 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nin Continental Service (commissioned January 19, 1776,\\nand died in\\nservice from\\n7 C^t^^t^ wounds March\\n27, 1776). His\\neldest son was admitted to membership in the Cincinnati\\nunder the provision of the original Institution.\\nAnderson, Enoch, born at Newport, New Castle County,\\nDelaware. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Captain Stid-\\nham s Company, Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware\\nState Troops, in Conti- yj\\nnental Service, January 13,\\n1776; wounded at battle\\nof Long Island, N. Y., August 27, 1776; Captain, Decem-\\nber 3, 1776; transferred to Colonel Hall s Delaware\\nRegiment, Continental Establishment, April 5, 1777; and\\nretired from service, September 1778. Died March 4,\\n1820.\\nAnderson, Joseph, born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,\\nNovember 5, 1757. Studied law and at commencement of\\nRevolution commissioned Ensign Third New Jersey Regi-\\nment, Continental Establishment, May 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 19, 1776; First Lieutenant, November\\n29, 1776; Captain, October 26, 1777; transferred to First\\nNew Jersey Regiment, Continental Establishment, January\\n1, 1 78 1 retained in New Jersey Battalion, Continental Es-\\ntablishment, April 1783; Regimental Paymaster from\\nOctober 26, 1777, to close of war; brevetted Major,\\nSeptember 30, 1783; was also with General Sullivan in\\nexpedition against Iroquois Indians and present at siege of", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 55\\nYorktown. After the war he began the practice of law in\\nDelaware, and in 1791 was appointed by President Wash-\\nington, Territorial Judge of the region south of the Ohio\\nRiver, and took part as delegate from Jefferson County in\\nframinj\\nConstitu-\\non f (^JQ\u00c2\u00a3/h^j= J nA*4K^J\\nlennes-\\nsee. He was United States Senator from that State from\\n1797 to 18 1 5, and acting as President pro tempore; was\\nalso First Comptroller of U. S. Treasury from 181 5 till his\\ndeath, in Washington, D. C, April 17, 1837.\\nAnderson, Thomas, born in New Castle County, Dela-\\nware. Commissioned Second\\n^^^1^ Lieutenant Captain Lear-\\n^r month s Company, Colonel\\nyr Hall s Delaware Regiment,\\nContinental Establishment, September 10, 1778, and con-\\ntinued to close of war. Served as Quartermaster of\\nRegiment 1 778-1 780.\\nAnderson, William, born in New Jersey, and commis-\\nsioned Ensign Fourth New Jersey Regiment, Continental\\nEstablishment, February 17, 1777; served to July 1, 1778.\\nCommissioned Ensign First New Jersey Regiment, Conti-\\nnental Establishment, June 21, 1781, and served to Novem-\\nber 3, 1783.\\nBennett, Caleb Prew, born in Kennett Township,\\nChester County, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1758; the son\\nof Joseph and Betty Bennett. Removed with parents to\\nWilmington, Delaware, in 1761, his father being a merchant", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "56 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nin the importing trade with Europe and West Indies. At\\ncommencement of Revolution, served one year in ranks of\\nColonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops, in\\nContinental Service, as private and First Sergeant; com-\\nmissioned Ensign Captain Thomas Holland s Company,\\nColonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establish-\\nment, April 5, 1777; wounded at battle of Germantown,\\nOctober 4, 1777; Second Lieutenant, August 16, 1778;\\nFirst Lieutenant Captains John Rhodes and William\\nMcKennan s Companies (same regiment), April, 1780, and\\nserved to close of war. Present at siege of Yorktown, and\\nin command of battery on day Lord Cornwallis surren-\\ndered. Commissioned Major of Delaware State Militia\\nand in command of forces at New Castle during War of\\n18 12-14. Treasurer of New Castle County, 1 807-1 832,\\nwhen elected Governor of Delaware, and died in office,\\nMay 9, 1836. Buried in Friends Cemetery, Fourth and\\nWest Streets, Wilmington, Delaware.* Assistant Treasurer\\nof the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati, 1799-t\\nCampbell, James, appointed from Delaware. Com-\\nmissioned Ensign Captain Enoch Anderson s Company,\\nColonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establish-\\nment, April 5, 1777; Second Lieutenant, May 21, 1778,\\nGovernor Bennett was the last surviving officer of the Delaware Line.\\nSee obituary notices in Delaware Gazette and American Watchman, Wil-\\nmington, Delaware, May 10, 1836, and Delaware State Journal, Wilmington,\\nDelaware, same date. His certificate of membership in the Cincinnati is\\nnow in possession of his grandson, Calvin Smith Bennett, Greenfield Planta-\\ntion, near Natchez, Mississippi.\\nf See ante, p. 26.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 57\\nand First Lieutenant Captain Jaquett s Company (same\\nregiment), 1780. Served to close of war.*\\nDriskell, Joseph, born in New York. Commissioned\\nSecond Lieutenant Stevens s Battalion, New York Artil-\\nlery, November 9, 1776, which became part of the Third\\nRegiment Artillery Corps, Continental Establishment; First\\nLieutenant, May 7, 1779. Retired from service January 1,\\n1783.\\nDuff, Henry, born near Newport, New Castle County,\\nDelaware, the son of Colonel Thomas Duff (of Delaware\\nMilitia in Revolution, a prominent landowner and Justice of\\nthe Peace\\nas well as\\nSheriff of\\nthe county,\\n.763-72). 0~//z77^\\nCommis- sy\\nsioned En-\\nsign Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Estab-\\nlishment, November 29, 1776; Second Lieutenant Captain\\nEnoch Anderson s Company, April 5, 1777, and First\\nLieutenant Captain Learmonth s Company (same regiment),\\nAugust 16, 1778. Served to close of the war. Died in\\nNew Castle County, Delaware, May 1789.\\nGilder, Reuben, appointed from Delaware, and served\\nas Surgeon in Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware\\nState Troops in Continental Service until disbandment of\\nHis certificate of membership in the Cincinnati is now in possession of\\nthe Delaware Historical Society.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nregiment. Commissioned Surgeon Colonel Hall s Dela-\\nware Regiment, Continental Estab-\\n4?\\\\ lishment, April 5, 1777, and served\\nto close of war. Reuben Gilder\\nafterwards appears as Captain Second Company, Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel Peter L. Berry s detachment of Philadelphia\\nMilitia in War of 1812-14.*\\nHall, David, born at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware,\\nJanuary 4, 1752; the son of David and Mary (Pollock)\\nHall lawyer by profession. Commissioned Captain, Col-\\nonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops, in\\nContinental Service, January 16, 1776; Colonel Dela-\\nware Regiment, Continental Establishment, April 5, 1777.\\nWounded at battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, and\\ndid not rejoin regiment, owing to disability from wound.\\nElected Governor of Delaware in 1802, and died September\\n18, i8i7.f\\nHaslet, Joseph, born in Kent County, Delaware son of\\nColonel John Haslet, commanding regiment of Delaware\\nState Troops in Continental Service (commissioned January\\n19, 1776, and killed at battle of Princeton, N. J., January 3,\\nl 777)- Colonel Haslet was born in Ireland, and educated\\nfor the Presbyterian ministry, but subsequently studied\\nmedicine and practised the latter profession in Kent\\nCounty, Delaware. He was first buried in the grave-yard\\nof the First Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, Pa.\\nbut in 1 84 1 his remains were disinterred and conveyed\\nSee Penna. State Archives, Second Series, Vol. XII.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j- His certificate of membership in Society of the Cincinnati is now in pos-\\nsession of his great-grandson, John Herdman Walker, Wilmington, Delaware.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 59\\nto Dover, escorted by the military of Philadelphia, and on\\nJuly 3 were deposited, with impressive ceremonies, in the\\nvault prepared for them, and a monument erected over\\nthem.*\\nJoseph Haslet, his only son, was admitted to member-\\nship in the Cincinnati under the provision of the original\\nInstitution. He was a lawyer by profession, and was\\ntwice elected Governor of Delaware, in 1S11 and 1823,\\nan honor never conferred by the State on any other citizen.\\nHe died in 1823.\\nHosman, Joseph, appointed from Delaware. Commis-\\nsioned Ensign Captain Learmonth s Company, Colonel\\nHall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establishment,\\nApril 5, 1777; Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant\\nCaptain Purvis s Company (same regiment), August 16,\\n1778, to January 1780.\\nHyatt, John Vance, born in New Castle County, Dela-\\nware. Commissioned Ensign Colonel Hall s Delaware\\nRegiment, Continental Establishment, December 3, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant Captain Jaquett s Company (same regi-\\nment), April 5, 1777; taken prisoner, April 26, 1778;\\nFirst Lieutenant, September 7, 1778 exchanged, March\\n31, 1 78 1 rejoined regiment and served in Captain Paul\\nQueenault s Company to close of war. After war, was ap-\\npointed Justice of the Peace for New Castle County, Dela-\\nware, 1785-86. Elected deacon Old Drawyer s Church\\n(1790), and elder St. George s Church, New Castle County,\\nDelaware, 179- Died, and buried in yard of former\\nchurch, 1806.\\nSee Whiteley s Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware, pp. 14, 15.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nJaquett, Peter, born on Long Hook Farm, New Castle\\nCounty, Delaware, April 6, 1754; the son of Peter and\\nElizabeth Jaquett. Commissioned Ensign in Captain Henry\\nDarby s Company, Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware\\nState Troops, in Continental Service, January 17, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment,\\nContinental Establishment, November 27, 1776 Captain\\n(in same regiment), April 5, 1777, and served to close of\\nwar; brevetted Major, September 30, 1783. Died on his\\nfarm at Long Hook, September 13, 1834, and was buried\\nin Old Swedes Church-yard at Wilmington, Delaware.\\nVice-President of the Delaware State Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati from 1795 to its dissolution.*\\nJones, James, appointed from Pennsylvania, and com-\\nmissioned Surgeon s Mate Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment,\\nContinental Establishment, February 16, 1778 (acting as\\nSurgeon from 1777 to 1779); transferred to Sixth Pennsyl-\\nvania Regiment, Continental Establishment, May 1, 1779;\\nSurgeon Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Estab-\\nlishment, February 1780; retired from service, January\\n1, 1 78 1. Resided in Kent County, Delaware, till death,\\nApril 29, 1830.\\nKidd, Charles, born\\nin Delaware. Commis-\\nsioned Ensign Captain\\nJaquett s Company, Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment,\\nContinental Establishment, April 5, 1777; Second Lieu-\\nSee, ante, pp. 24-26. His certificate of membership in Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati and his sword are now in possession of his grand-nephew, Samuel\\nPrice Jaquett, Radnor, Delaware County, Pa.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "W*rpf ^L\\n1 754-I834-\\nfORTSAiT IN POSSESSION OF DESCENDANT, BENJAMiN F. UETHVEN, CHICAGO, ILL.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 6 1\\ntenant (same regiment), September 7, 1778; First Lieuten-\\nant, 1780, and served to close of war.*\\nKirkpatrick, David, appointed from New York. Com-\\nmissioned Ensign Colonel Malcolm s Additional Continental\\nRegiment, April 24, 1777; transferred to Colonel Spencer s\\nRegiment, Continental Establishment, April 22, 1779; Lieu-\\ntenant, April 24, 1779; retired, January 1, 1781 Captain\\nGeneral Du Portail s Corps of Sappers and Miners, Conti-\\nnental Establishment, July 25, 1781 wounded at siege of\\nYorktown, October 14, 1781 served to June 3, 1783. Pre-\\nsented with sword by Lafayette for gallantry at battle of\\nBrandy wine, September 11, 1777. Died in Wilmington,\\nDelaware, and buried in cemetery of First Presbyterian\\nChurch, Market and Tenth Streets.\\nKirkwood, Robert, born in Mill Creek Hundred, New\\nCastle County, Delaware, and was engaged in mercantile\\nbusiness at commencement of Revolution. Commissioned\\nFirst Lieutenant Captain Henry Darby s Company, Colonel\\nHaslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops in Continental\\nService, January 17, 1776; Captain, December 1, 1776;\\ntransferred to Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continen-\\ntal Establishment, as second ranking Captain, and served\\nto close of war as Senior Captain in command of Delaware\\nBattalion; brevetted Major, September 30, 1783. He was\\nafterwards commissioned Captain Second Regiment United\\nStates Infantry, March 4, 1791, and marched under General\\nSt. Clair in the expedition against the Indians in Ohio\\nWas related by marriage to Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Vaughan of same\\nregiment.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nTerritory. He fell in the battle near Fort Recovery, and,\\nrefusing to retreat in the defeat the army there sustained,\\nthe gallant soldier fell, bravely sustaining his point of the\\naction. It was the thirty-third time he had risked his life\\nfor his country, and he died as he had lived, the brave,\\nmeritorious, unrewarded Kirkwood.\\nLatimer, Henry, born at Newport, New Castle County,\\nDelaware, 1752; the son of Hon. James and Sarah\\n(Geddes) Latimer. Studied medicine in Philadelphia, Pa.,\\nand completed course by graduation at Medical College\\nof Edinburgh, Scotland. On return home, commenced the\\npractice of his profession in Wilmington; but in 1777 was\\ncommissioned Surgeon in the Continental Army, and at-\\ntached to what was called the Flying Hospital. Served\\nwith the army in all the battles in the Northern Depart-\\nment from Brandywine to Yorktown. After the war he\\nreturned to the practice of his profession. Was also\\nelected a member of the State Legislature; also to Con-\\ngress from 1793 to 1795; and in 1794 was elected United\\nStates Senator from Delaware for one term. Died Decem-\\nLee s Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United\\nStates. Major Kirkwood s commission as First Lieutenant Delaware State\\nTroops dated January 13, 1 7 76, and signed by John Hancock, President,\\nand Charles Thomson, Secretary, of Congress and his commission of Brevet\\nMajor, dated September 30, 1783, are now in possession of his great-grand-\\nson, Newell Kirkwood Kennon, St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio. His\\ncertificate of membership in Society of the Cincinnati is in possession of his\\ngrandson, General Robert H. K. Whiteley, U. S. Army (retired), who has\\ndeposited in the Delaware Historical Society Major Kirkwood s journal,\\nkept by him through the Revolution, and also his sash stained with his\\nblood.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 63\\nber 19, 1 8 19, and buried in cemetery of First Presbyterian\\nChurch, Wilmington, Delaware.*\\nLearmonth, John, born in Sussex County, Delaware.\\nCommissioned Second Lieutenant Captain David Hall s\\nCompany, Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State\\nTroops in Continental Ser-\\nvice, January 16,1776; First tat A a Jtn^un^^\\nLieutenant, November 28,\\n1776; Captain Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, April 5,\\n1777, and served to close of war. Was living at Lewes,\\nDelaware, in November, 1804.\\nMcKennan, William, born in Christiana Hundred, New\\nCastle County, Delaware. His father was a clergyman,\\nand preached at what is yet known as McKennan s Meet-\\ning-House. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Captain\\nThomas Kean s Company, Colonel Samuel Patterson s\\nDelaware Battalion of the Flying Camp, June or July,\\n1776; Second Lieutenant, Colonel Hall s Delaware Regi-\\nment, Continental Establishment, November 29, 1776; First\\nLieutenant Captains Learmonth and Patten s Companies,\\n(same regiment) April 5, 1777, and February 1780,\\nCaptain, 1781, and served to close of war. Present at\\nsiege of and surrender at Yorktown, and in command of\\nDelaware Detachment on return to its native State in\\nJanuary, 1783.J Was first Secretary of the Delaware\\nHis son, John R. Latimer, was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania\\nSociety (1821), elected on Standing Committee (1823-24), Assistant Treasurer\\n(1835-37), Treasurer (1837-54), Vice-President (1854-55), and President\\n(1855 to decease, 1865).\\nf See, ante, p. S.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nState Society of the Cincinnati (1784-1795).* Trustee of\\nOld Drawyer s Church, 1790. Died and buried in New-\\nCastle County, Delaware, February 1803.\\nMcLane, Allen, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Au-\\ngust 8, 1746, and removed to Kent County, Delaware, 1774.\\nIn 1775 was appointed Lieutenant in Colonel Caesar Rodney s\\nRegiment of Delaware Militia, and in 1776 joined Washing-\\nton s army and was distinguished in actions at Long Island,\\nat White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton. Commissioned\\nCaptain and assigned to Colonel John Patton s Additional\\nContinental Regiment, January 13, 1777. His partisan com-\\npany was in service on outposts of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-\\nvania, during its occupation by enemy, 1777-1778; attached\\nto Delaware Regiment, Continental Establishment, Decem-\\nber 16, 1778, and to Major Lee s Partisan Corps, July\\n13, 1779; present at siege of, and surrender at, Yorktown,\\nand retired from service, November 9, 1782. After the\\nwar was a member and Speaker of the Delaware Legis-\\nlature, for six years a privy councillor, for many years\\nJudge of the Court of Common Pleas and United States\\nMarshal of the Delaware District from 1790 to 1798.\\nAlso Collector of the Port of Wilmington from 1808 to\\ndate of his death, which occurred May 22, 1829. Buried\\nin Asbury Church cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware. After\\ndissolution of Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati, he\\nwas transferred, on his application (1802), to membership\\nin the Pennsylvania Society. Member of Standing Com-\\nSee, ante, pp. 10-24. His certificate of membership in Society of the\\nCincinnati is now in possession of his grandson, Dr. Thomas McKennan,\\nWashington, Pa.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 65\\nmittee therein (1 824-1 828) and Treasurer-General of the\\nSociety (1825-1829).*\\nMcWilliam, Stephen, born at Spring Garden, the\\nfamily residence, near New Castle, New Castle County,\\nDelaware, November 1759; the son of Captain Richard\\nand Margaret (Shaw) McWilliam. Commissioned Second\\nLieutenant Cap- ^y sp\\nonel Hall s Dela-\\nware Regiment, Continental Establishment, October 27,\\n1779, and served to close of war. Appointed Paymaster\\n(same regiment) 1780. Died after 1801, and buried in\\nImmanuel Churchyard at New Castle, Delaware. Was\\nFirst Assistant Treasurer of Delaware State Society of\\nCincinnati (i8o4).f\\nMitchell, Nathaniel, born 1753, and resided at or near\\nLaurel, Sussex County, Delaware was the son of James\\nand Margaret (Dagworthy) Mitchell, and nephew of Gen-\\neral John Dagworthy, of Delaware. Commissioned Adju-\\ntant Colonel John Dagworthy s Delaware Battalion of\\nMilitia, 1775 Captain Colonel Samuel Patterson s Delaware\\nBattalion of the Flying Camp, June to December, 1776;\\nCaptain Colonel William Grayson s Additional Continental\\nHis grandson, Hon. Robert Milligan McLane, is to-day President of the\\nMaryland Society and also Vice-President-General of the General Society of\\nthe Cincinnati.\\nf See ante, p. II. His punch-bowl, besides many pieces of his family\\nsilver, articles of jewelry, papers, etc., are now in possession of his great-\\ngrandnephew, Thomas David Pearce, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\\n5", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nRegiment, January 20, 1777; Major (same regiment)\\nDecember 23, 1777; transferred to Colonel Nathaniel Gist s\\nAdditional Continental Regiment, April 22, 1779; Brigade\\nMajor and Inspector to General Peter Muhlenberg, 1779-\\n81 retired from service, January 1, 1781 prisoner of war,\\nJuly 18, 1782, and paroled. Delegate from Delaware to\\nContinental Congress, 1786-88. Governor of Delaware\\nState, 1805-07. Delegate to the General Meeting of the\\nSociety of the Cincinnati at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,\\nMay, 1787. Died at Laurel, Delaware, February 21, 18 14,\\nand buried in cemetery of old Broad Creek Episcopal\\nChurch, near that town.\\nMonro, George, born at New Castle, New Castle\\nCounty, Delaware, February 22, 1760; the son of George\\nMonro, of Scotland, and Lydia Hall, his wife, and relative\\nof Governor Hall of Delaware. Graduated from Newark\\nAcademy and afterwards studied medicine, graduating from\\nUniversity of Pennsylvania. Commissioned Surgeon s\\nMate in Sixth Virginia Regiment, Continental Establish-\\nment, 1779, and Hospital Surgeon, Continental Establish-\\nment, 1 78 1 continued in service with Southern army to\\nclose of war (November, 1782). After war, went to Europe\\nand attended medical schools and hospitals in London and\\nEdinburgh for over two years, receiving degree of M.D.\\nfrom latter university also. Resumed practice of profession\\nand farming in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1786, and\\nin 1797 removed to Wilmington, where he died October\\n11, 1 8 19. Buried in Presbyterian cemetery, Market and\\nTenth Streets, in that city. Was one of the trustees of the\\nWilmington Academy and College (1803) and of Newark", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 67\\nAcademy (18 18). Assistant Treasurer Delaware State\\nSociety of the Cincinnati (1788-1799), and Treasurer from\\n1799 to dissolution of the Society.*\\nMoore, James, born in Delaware. Commissioned First\\nLieutenant Captain Nathan Adams s Company, Colonel\\nHaslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops in Continental\\nService, January 19, 1776, Captain Colonel Hall s Dela-\\nware Regiment, Continental Establishment, December 2,\\n1776; taken prisoner January 16, 1778; exchanged Decem-\\nber 7, 1780, and remained out of service. Was Assistant\\nTreasurer of Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati\\n(1786-1788); Delegate to the General Meetings of the\\nSociety (1784, 1787, and 1788), and afterwards was Assist-\\nant Treasurer of Pennsylvania Society (1798-1801).!\\nPatten, John, born near Dover, Kent County, Delaware,\\nApril 26, 1746, the son of William and Ann Patten. Was\\na farmer at commencement of Revolution and commis-\\nsioned First Lieutenant Captain Jonathan Caldwell s Com-\\npany, Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State Troops\\nin Continental Service, January 15, 1776; senior Captain\\nColonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establish-\\nment, November 30, 1776; Major, December 14, 1779;\\ntaken prisoner at battle of Camden, S. C, August 16, 1780,\\nand on parole to close of war. He returned to Delaware\\nafter being paroled (but not exchanged) and did not rejoin\\nhis regiment. Served in Continental Congress (1785-86),\\nSee ante, pp. 19-26.\\nf See ante, pp. 14, 17, 20; also Winthrop Sargeant s Journal of the Gen-\\neral Meeting of the Cincinnati, 1784. Not to be confounded with Major\\nJames Moore, First Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Establishment.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nand upon the adoption of the United States Constitution\\nwas elected member of the Third Congress from Delaware\\n(1793-94). Subsequently elected to the Fourth Congress,\\nand served till 1797. Died December 26, 1800, and buried\\nin Presbyterian Churchyard at Dover, Delaware. Was\\nFirst Vice-President of the Delaware State Society of the\\nCincinnati, and so continued until elected President (1799);\\nalso Delegate to General Meetings of Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati (1788, 1790, 1 79 1, and 1793).*\\nPlatt, John, born in Burlington County, New Jersey,\\nAugust 13, 1749; the son of Thomas and Sarah (Dennis)\\nPlatt. Removed to Wilmington prior to Revolution.\\ny^-\\\\ Commissioned Lieutenant\\nfirfr-fi Zjr and Surgeon s Mate Colonel\\nHall s Delaware Regiment,\\nContinental Establishment, April 5, 1777, and served to\\nclose of war. After the war he resided at his residence of\\nChatham, near Wilmington, New Castle County, Dela-\\nware, till death, December 1823.\\nPope, Charles, born 1748, and resided at Smyrna, Kent\\nCounty, Delaware. At commencement of Revolution was\\na merchant. Commissioned Captain Colonel Haslet s Regi-\\nment of Delaware State Troops, in Continental Service,\\nJanuary 18, 1776. Wounded at Mamaroneck, New York,\\nin attack by Colonel Haslet, commanding Delaware and\\nMaryland troops, on British (resulting in defeat of enemy),\\nOctober 21, 1776. Commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel Col-\\nonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establishment,\\nApril 5, 1777; resigned on account of wounds, December\\nSee ante, pp. 11-26.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "I74S-I803.\\nFftOU MINIATURE POHIP.AIT IN FOSSESS ON OF OCSCtNOANT, MPS. ANN BUZA O i) MASTIN, ST. LOUIS,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 69\\n13, 1779. Removed to Georgia prior to 1800, and died and\\nburied on his farm in Columbia County, in that State, Feb-\\nruary 16, 1803.\\nPurvis, George, born in Delaware. Commissioned\\nSecond Lieutenant Captain Patten s Company, Colonel\\nHall s Delaware Regiment, Continental Establishment,\\nApril 5, 1777; First Lieutenant, October 15, 1777; Regi-\\nmental Adjutant, August 15, 1778; Captain (same regiment)\\nand served to close of war.\\nRoche, Edward, born at Passage, County Cork, Ireland,\\nApril 10, 1754; son of Laurence Roche. Resided in New\\nCastle County, Delaware. Commissioned Second Lieu-\\ntenant Colonel Hall s Delaware Regiment, Continental\\nEstablishment, April 5, 1777, and Paymaster (same regi-\\nment), September 10, 1778. Taken prisoner at battle of\\nCamden, South Carolina, August 16, 1780. Paroled, and\\ndid not rejoin his regiment. After the war, resided in\\nWilmington, Delaware; by profession a notary public and\\nJustice of the Peace for nearly twenty years. Died April 6,\\n1 82 1, and buried in Old Swedes Churchyard, Wilmington,\\nDelaware. Treasurer of the Delaware State Society of the\\nCincinnati from its organization to 1799, and Secretary from\\nlatter date to its dissolution.*\\nSee ante, pp. 11-29. H s portrait and sword (formerly belonging to a\\nHessian officer) are now the property of his great-grandson, William Ford\\nRoche, McVeytown, Pennsylvania; his certificate of membership in the\\nSociety of the Cincinnati is in the possession of his great-grandson, Samuel\\nSeay Roche, Nashville, Tennessee and his commission of Justice of the\\nPeace is in the possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Ann Eliza Larzelere,\\nTahlequah, Indian Territory.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "70 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nSmith, Ebenezer Augustus, appointed Surgeon s Mate,\\nand served under Hospital Surgeons James Tilton and\\nGeorge Monro of the Continental Staff. With the latter at\\ncamp on the Ashley River, South Carolina, in November,\\n1782, and served to close of war. Resided afterwards in\\nWilmington, Delaware, engaged in the practice of his pro-\\nfession died and buried there. Was one of the trustees of\\nthe old Wilmington Academy and College (1803).\\nTilton, James, born in Kent County, Delaware, June 1,\\n1745 the son of Thomas Tilton. Studied medicine and\\ngraduated from Medical Department, University of Penn-\\nsylvania, M.B., 1768, and M.D., 1771. Commissioned\\nSurgeon Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State\\nTroops in Continental Service and served with regiment\\nfrom January 16, 1776, to December 1776. Appointed\\nHospital Physician April 23, 1777; Hospital Physician and\\nSurgeon, October 6, 1780, and served with army to close of\\nwar. After the Revolution, appointed Surgeon-General\\nUnited States Army, June 11, 181 3, and honorably dis-\\ncharged June 15, 181 5, after termination of second war\\nbetween United States and Great Britain. Was skilled and\\nhonored as a surgeon and the author of several treatises on\\nmedical, sanitary, and other subjects. Resided on his estate\\nnear Wilmington, Delaware, and died there May 14, 1822.\\nWas first President of the Delaware State Society of the\\nCincinnati from its organization to 1795, and delegate to the\\nGeneral Meetings of the Society of the Cincinnati from 1784\\nto 1793, when the State Society ceased to be represented.*\\nSee ante, pp. 1 1-22. His insignia, presented by General Lafayette, is\\nnow the property of his grandnephew, Colonel M Lane Tilton, U.S.M.C.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 7 1\\nTwining, Nathaniel, born in Bucks County, Pennsyl-\\nvania, 1757; the son of Samuel and Mary (Jenks) Twin-\\ning, Private in First Associated Company (Associators) for\\nthe Township of Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania,\\n(Captain Francis Murray, Commanding), August 21, 1775.\\nCommissioned Ensign Fourth Maryland Regiment, Con-\\ntinental Establishment, December 10, 1776; Second Lieu-\\ntenant, October 15, 1777, and resigned January 1, 1779.\\nHaving been reared in the religious belief of the Society of\\nFriends, he was afterwards disowned (as his brother had also\\nbeen) for entering the military service. Died after 1792.\\nVaughan, Joseph, born in England and resided in or\\nnear Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware. Was engaged\\nin iron business and had a furnace near Concord in the\\nsame County at the beginning of the Revolution. Com-\\nmissioned Captain Colonel Haslet s Regiment of Delaware\\nState Troops in Continental Service, January 21, 1776.\\nMajor Colonel Hall s\\nDelaware Regiment, ZW/aXX^/^^\\nContinental Establish- (A*^*^r\\nment, April 5, 1777,\\nand Lieutenant -Col-\\nonel (same regiment), December 14, 1779. Taken prisoner\\nat battle of Camden, South Carolina, August 16, 1780, with\\nMajor Patten and other officers of the Delaware Regiment,\\nand placed on parole till close of war. After the war, he\\nmoved into that portion of Maryland known as The\\nFork, a tract lying between the two branches of the Nan-\\nticoke River, and adjacent to the Delaware State line.\\nHere he died, but in what year is not known.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "72 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX C.\\nRoll of the Field, Staff, and Company Officers of Col-\\nonel John Haslet s Regiment of Delaware State\\nTroops in Continental Service for the Month of\\nJanuary, 1776.*\\nField.\\nRank. Date of Commission.\\nColonel, John Haslet, January 19, 1776.\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Gunning Bedford, 19,\\nMajor, Thomas MACDONOUGH,f March 22, 1776.\\nThe only roster of the regiment in existence shows the above field, s aff,\\nand company officers, a more complete list than Mr. Whiteley was able to\\nobtain.\\n-j- John Macpherson, Esq., was elected Major of the regiment, January 19,\\n1776; but was not then living, being killed by the side of General Mont-\\ngomery, to whom he was acting as aid-de-camp, in the storming of Quebec,\\nDecember 31, 1775, and before he was commissioned. Intelligence of his\\ndeath reached the Delaware Assembly in March, 1776, and, having recom-\\nmended to Congress Thomas Macdonough to succeed Macpherson, the former\\nwas elected Major.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 73\\nRank. Staff. Date of Commission.\\nSurgeon, James Tilton, M.D.\\nChaplain, Rev. Joseph Montgomery.\\nAdjutant, Thomas Holland.\\nQuartermaster, Robert Bail.\\nFirst Company,\\nCaptain, Joseph Stidman (Stidham?), January 13, 1776.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Lewis Howell, 13,\\nSecond Lieutenant, Enoch Anderson, 13,\\nEnsign, Thomas Holland, 13,\\nSecond Company.\\nCaptain, Jonathan Caldwell, 15,\\nFirst Lieutenant, John Patten, 15,\\nSecond Lieutenant, George McCall, 15,\\nEnsign, James Stevens, 15,\\nThird Company.\\nCaptain, David Hall, 16,\\nFirst Lieutenant, Jonathan Harney,* 16,\\nSecond Lieutenant, John Learmonth, 16,\\nEnsign, Cord Hazzard, 16,\\nFourth Company.\\nCaptain, Henry Darby, 17,\\nFirst Lieutenant, Robert Kirkwood, Jr., 17,\\nSecond Lieutenant, William Popham,! 17,\\nEnsign, Peter Jaquett, Jr., 17,\\nReported killed at battle on Long Island, August 27, 1776. This name\\nis frequently spelled Genethen Harney.\\nf Afterwards President of New York State Society of Cincinnati, and\\nPresident-General of the General Society, 1844, to date of death (1847).", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nFifth Company.\\nRank.\\nCaptain, Charles Pope,\\nFirst Lieutenant, James Wells,\\nSecond Lieutenant, Alexander Stuart\\n(Stewart Jr.,\\nEnsign, John Willson,\\nSixth Company.\\nCaptain, Nathan Adams, f\\nFirst Lieutenant, James Moore,\\nSecond Lieutenant, James Gordon,\\nEnsign, Thomas Nixon, Jr.,\\nSeventh Company.\\nCaptain, Samuel Smith,\\nFirst Lieutenant, John Dickson,\\nSecond Lieutenant, James Macdonough, Jr.,\\nEnsign, Abram Carty,\\nEighth Company.\\nCaptain, Joseph Vaughan,\\nFirst Lieutenant, Joseph Truitt (or Frint)\\nSecond Lieutenant, John Perkins,\\nEnsign, William Vaughan,|\\nReported killed at battle on Long Island, August 27, 1776.\\nf Died in service, March 27, 1776. His son, William Adams, was an\\noriginal member of the Delaware Cincinnati, by right of representation of his\\nfather.\\nDied in service, March 22, 1777.\\nDate of i\\nCommission.\\nJanuary\\n18,\\n1776,\\n11\\n18,\\nti\\na\\n18,\\nit\\ntt\\n18,\\nit\\ntt\\n19,\\nt\\ntt\\n19,\\ntt\\na\\n19,\\nti\\nti\\n19,\\nit\\ntt\\n20,\\n11\\ntt\\n20,\\ntt\\nJr.,\\n20,\\na\\na\\n20,\\nn\\na\\n21,\\nit\\n;t)\\n21,\\nn\\n21,\\ntt\\na\\n21,\\na", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 75\\nAPPENDIX D.\\nRoll of Field, Staff and Company Officers of the Del-\\naware Regiment of Foot, on the Continental Es-\\ntablishment, Commanded by Colonel David Hall,\\non the arrangement of April 5, 1777. (Original Roll,\\nby Caleb P. Bennett, in archives of the Delaware\\nState Society of the Cincinnati.)\\nField and Staff.\\nColonel, David Hall.\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Charles Pope.\\nMajor, Joseph Vaughan.\\nAdjutant, John Lucas.*\\nPaymaster, Edward Roche, f\\nQuartermaster, James Trusam.*\\nSurgeon, Reuben Gilder.\\nSurgeon s Mate, John Platt.\\nWhiteley, in his History of Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware, states\\nGeorge Purvis as Adjutant and Thomas Anderson as Quartermaster, at this\\nperiod.\\nJames Trusam or Tresham, was afterwards Adjutant, Colonel Henry\\nNeill s Regiment, 1780. See Appendix F.\\nf The writer adds that Edward Roche was appointed Lieutenant and\\nPaymaster, August, 1778, Thomas Anderson was appointed Lieutenant and\\nQuartermaster in 1778, Stephen McWilliam was appointed ditto in 17S0, and\\nJohn Vaughan was appointed ditto in 1780.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "76 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nFirst Company.\\nCaptain, John Patten.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Genethan Harney.*\\nSecond Lieutenant, George Purvis.\\nEnsign, Benjamin McLane.\\nSecond Company.\\nCaptain, Robert Kirkwood.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Alexander Stewart.*\\nSecond Lieutenant, Paul Queenault.\\nEnsign, John Betson.\\nThird Company.\\nCaptain, James Moore.\\nFirst Lieutenant, John Willson.\\nSecond Lieutenant, James Bratton.\\nEnsign, Thomas Berry.\\nFourth Company.\\nCaptain, Enoch Anderson.\\nFirst Lieutenant, John Corse.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Henry Duff.\\nEnsign, James Campbell.\\nFifth Company.\\nCaptain, Thomas Holland^\\nWhiteley reports these officers as killed at the battle on Long Island,\\nAugust 27, 1776.\\nf Killed at battle of Germantown,\\nPennsylvania, October 4, 1777.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 77\\nFirst Lieutenant, John Rhodes.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Caleb Brown.\\nEnsign, Caleb P. Bennett.\\nSixth Company.\\nCaptain, John Learmonth.\\nFirst Lieutenant, William McKennan.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Griffith Jordan.\\nEnsign, Joseph Hosman.\\nSeventh Company.\\nCaptain, Cord Hazzard.*\\nFirst Lieutenant, Daniel Powell Cox.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Joseph Wilds.\\nEnsign, Elijah Skillington.\\nEighth Company.\\nCaptain, Peter Jaquett.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Richard Wilds.\\nSecond Lieutenant, John V. Hyatt.\\nEnsign, Charles Kidd.\\nCaptain Cord Hazzard was still living when I last heard from him (in\\n1825). He resigned his commission in March, 1778, owing to the loss of his\\nhearing by the bursting of a shell at Mud Island during the attack. C. P. B.\\nNote. Those comprise the whole appointments made in the Delaware\\nRegiment from 1777 till the peace 1783. C. P. B.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX E.\\nRoll of the Field, Staff, and other Officers of the Dela-\\nware Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel\\nDavid Hall, for the month of February, 1780.\\nField and Staff.\\nRank. Date of Original Commission,\\nColonel, David Hall, April 5, 1777\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Charles Pope, April 5, 1777\\nMajor, Joseph Vaughan, April 5, 1777\\nAdjutant, George Purvis, August 15, 1778\\nPaymaster, Edward Roche, September 10, 1778\\nQuartermaster, Thomas Anderson, September 10, 1778\\nSurgeon, Reuben Gilder, April 5, 1777\\nSurgeon s Mate, John Platt, April 5, 1777\\nFirst Company.\\nCaptain, John Patten, November 30, 1776.\\nFirst Lieutenant, William McKennan, April 5, 1777.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Elijah Skilling-\\nton, September 8, 1778.\\nSecond Company.\\nCaptain, Robert Kirkwood, December 1, 1776.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Daniel P. Cox, April 5, 1777.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Charles Kidd, September 7, 1778.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 79\\nThird Company.\\nRank. Date of Original Commission.\\nCaptain, John Learmonth, April 5, 1777.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Henry Duff, August 16, 1778.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Thomas Anderson, September 10, 1778.\\nFourth Company.\\nCaptain, Peter Jaquett, April 5, 1777.\\nFirst Lieutenant, James Campbell, April 5, 1777.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Stephen McWil-\\nliam, October 27, 1779.\\nFifth Company,\\nCaptain, John Willson, March 1, 1777.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Paul Queenault, January 26, 1778.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Edward Roche, September 10, 1778.\\nSixth Company.\\nCaptain, John Corse, March 1, 1779.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Caleb Brown, September 10, 1778.\\nSecond Lieutenant,\\nSeventh Company.\\nCaptain, John Rhodes, December 4, 1776.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Caleb P. Bennett, August 16, 1778.\\nSecond Lieutenant,\\nEighth Company.\\nCaptain, George Purvis, October 15, 1777.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Joseph Hosman, August 16, 1778.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Joseph Hosman,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "8o HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX F.\\nRoll of Officers of the Delaware Regiment, raised by\\nan Act of the General Assembly of the Delaware\\nState, and passed at Dover, the 21st day of June,\\n1780, commanded by Colonel Henry Neill and ap-\\npointed to serve in the Army of the United States\\nuntil the 1st day of November. (Mustered at Phila-\\ndelphia, and pay commencing from the 10th day of\\nJuly. Discharged the 28th day of October, 1780.)\\nField and Staff.\\nRank. Date of Commission.\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Henry Neill, July 8, 1780.\\nMajor, James Mitchell, July 8, 1780.\\nQuartermaster, John West, July 10, 1780.\\nSurgeon, Robert Wilcox, August 5, 1780.\\nAdjutant, James Tresh am,* July 31,1780.\\nCaptains.\\n1. Simon Wilmer Wilson.\\n2. Charles Nixon.\\n3. Hugh McCracken.\\n4. George Smith.\\n5. William Clement.\\n6. William Moore.\\nSee Note, p. 75.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.\\n81\\nAPPENDIX G.\\nRoll of Officers of Colonel Samuel Patterson s Dela-\\nware Battalion of the Flying Camp, to serve\\nuntil December ist, 1776.\\nColonel, Samuel Patterson.*\\nLieutenant-Colonel, George Latimer.\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nCapta\\nn, William Moody.\\nn, Joseph Caldwell^\\nn, Thomas Kean.J\\nn, James Dunn.\\nn, Thomas Skillington.\\nn, Matt. Manlove.\\nn, John Woodgate.\\nn, Nathaniel Mitchell.\u00c2\u00a7\\nAfterwards Brigadier-General of Delaware State Milita.\\nf There were two Captains Caldwell in the service of Delaware, the above-\\nnamed and Jonathan Caldwell\\nof Colonel Haslet s Regiment\\nthe latter of the two being the\\noriginator, it is said, of the\\nterm Blue Hen s Chickens as applied to the Delaware soldiers in the\\nRevolution.\\nAfterwards a member of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati.\\nBorn 1747 and died 1802. Buried in Presbyterian cemetery, Market and\\nTenth Streets, Wilmington, Delaware.\\nAfterwards Major in Grayson s and Gist s Additional Continental Regi-\\nments and a member of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati. See\\nRecord of Officers, Appendix B.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX H.\\nRoll of Officers of Captain Allen McLane s Partisan\\nCompany of Foot in the Service of the United\\nStates for the months of March, April, May, and\\nJune, 1779.\\nCommissioned.\\nCaptain, Allen McLane, January 13, 1777.\\nFirst Lieutenant, A. M. Dunn, 13,\\nSecond Lieutenant, William Jones,* 13,\\nKilled at Wyoming, April 17, 1779.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 83\\nAPPENDIX I.\\nRoll of Officers of Veteran Corps of Delaware (com-\\nposed of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,\\nand disbanded after 1802).\\nCaptain, Allen McLane.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Edward Roche.\\nSecond Lieutenant, George Monro.\\nThird Lieutenant, David Kirkpatrick.\\nReorganized as a Veteran Home-Guard for defence of\\nWilmington, Delaware, on proclamation of war by the\\nUnited States with Great Britain, June 18, 18 12.\\nCaptain, Allen McLane.\\nFirst Lieutenant, Peter Jaquett.\\nSecond Lieutenant, Edward Roche.\\nThird Lieutenant, David Kirkpatrick.\\nSurgeons.\\nDr. James Tilton.\\nDr. George Monro.\\nDr. Ebenezer Augustus Smith.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX K.\\nFUNERAL ORATION\\nON THE DEATH OF\\nGEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON.\\nPREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE,\\nAND PRONOUNCED AT WILMINGTON ON THE 22D DAY OF FEBRUARY, 180O.\\nBY\\nEDWARD ROCHE,\\nSecretary of the Society.\\nCultivate the Virtues of your Fathers,\\nValour, truth and temperance and justice.\\nWho shall dare, if thus renew d, ye feel\\nYour innate dignity; when bold to act,\\nAnd clear to penetrate, ye know the force\\nAnd worth of Independence who shall dare,\\nBy open violence, or insiduous guile,\\nProvoke your vengeance.\\nRichardson.\\nWILMINGTON.\\nPRINTED AT THE FRANKLIN PRESS,\\nBY JAMES WILSON.\\nI800.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "1754-1S21.\\nOF DESCENDANT, MRS. ANN EUZA (bOCHe) LARZflERE, TAHLEQUAH,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 85\\nA SKETCH OF THE FUNERAL PROCESSION.\\nOn the 22d of February last, being the day recom-\\nmended by Congress for paying a tribute of grateful re-\\nspect to the memory of George Washington, a large\\nConcourse of citizens assembled in the borough of Wil-\\nmington, impressed with one common sentiment of respect\\nand veneration for the many virtues of our departed Hero.\\nA procession was formed at the Town-Hall, in the fol-\\nlowing order\\n1. Captain Israel s Company of Artillery, from Christiana-\\nBridge, in uniform.\\n2. Captain Darragh s Company of Infantry, from New-\\nCastle, in uniform.\\n3. Captain Elliot s Company of Infantry, of Wilmington,\\nin uniform.\\n4. Detachment of Infantry of the United States, com-\\nmanded by Captain Peyton.\\n5. Military Music.\\n6. Clergy.\\n7. Sixteen young Ladies, dressed in white, each repre-\\nsenting a State, by bearing its name on a black sash, and\\ncarrying a sprig of laurel in the outside hand.\\n8. Vocal Music eight young Ladies, dressed in white,\\nwearing a black ribbon on the left arm.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\n9. Black Banner, borne by a Member of the Cincinnati,\\ndressed in black.\\nInscribed George Washington We deplore his death\\nReverse An Eagle, Liberty and Independence.*\\n10. President of the Cincinnati and Orator of the Day,\\nfollowed by the Members.\\n11. Citizens above 45 years of age, who served during\\nthe Revolutionary war, either in a civil or military capacity.\\n12. Officers, civil and military, of the United States and\\nof this State.\\n13. Citizens, not included in the above description.\\nAbout 12 o clock, the procession, thus formed, pro-\\nceeded thro the principal streets to the Second Presby-\\nterian Church, where the ladies deposited their laurels on a\\ntable in front of the pulpit, each pronouncing these words\\nSacred to the memory of Washington we deposit this laurel\\nas an emblem of his never-dying fame!* The banner being\\nreclined against the pulpit, and the audience composed,\\nThe emblem of the Order of the Cincinnati and the motto of the Dela-\\nware State also the present seal of the Delaware Society of the Cincinnati.\\n(See back of title-page.)\\nThis same legend, Liberty and Independence, was not added to the\\nGreat Seal of Delaware until more than twenty years after the above date,\\nas may be readily seen by inspection of the seals of that period; although\\nHon. Peter Robinson, former Secretary of State, says, in a letter dated July\\n4, 1 81 6, that it was first used in that year. It would appear, therefore, in\\neither case, and in absence of proof to the contrary, that the Delaware Cin-\\ncinnati Society has the honor of being the originator of the State s motto.\\n(See, also, Every Evening and Daily Commercial, Wilmington, Delaware,\\nMarch 23 and 28, 1895.)", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 87\\nthe Ode, prefixed to this oration, was sung by the afore-\\nmentioned singers and a number of gentlemen after which\\nthe Rev. Francis A. Latta addressed the Throne of Grace\\nin a very pertinent and pathetic prayer.\\nCaptain Roche then pronounced the following Oration.\\nA funeral Anthem concluded the solemnity and the pro-\\ncession returned, in the same order they came, to the Town-\\nHall, and separated.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nSTANZAS.\\nFor the Twenty-Second of February, 1800.\\nBY MR. COLEMAN.\\nBehold the important day appears,\\nDevoted erst to joy and mirth;\\nThe day which Liberty reveres,\\nWhich gave Columbia s Hero birth.\\nBut now, alas, his natal day,\\nTo general mourning consecrate,\\nAwakes the melancholy lay,\\nIn sad remembrance of his fate.\\nFor Washington, illustrious Sage,\\nOrdained by Heaven our rights to save\\nFrom tyranny s vindictive rage,\\nMature in glory, seeks the grave.\\nYe hoary Sages of the land,\\nWho saw the Hero s first career;\\nWhose counsels nerved his mighty hand,\\nThro war s tempestuous tide to steer\\nYou saw him freedom s banner wave,\\nAnd thousands rally at the sight,\\nBritannia s myrmidons to brave,\\nAnd triumph in the sanguine fight\\nHeave from each reverend breast a sigh,\\nSacred to your departed Chief,", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 89\\nWhile sadness sits in every eye,\\nAnd speaks a grateful nation s grief.\\nYe Veterans brave, in dangers dire,\\nWho saw him lift his dauntless form,\\nAnd every breast with valour fire,\\nTo meet the battle s deathful storm\\nWith filial veneration pay\\nDue honors to your Leader s name\\nUnited tune the plaintive lay,\\nAnd celebrate his deathless fame.\\nYe Matrons grave and blooming Fair,\\nIn whom the tender virtues reign,\\nTo His loved memory drop a tear,\\nWho saved you from oppression s chain.\\nYe generous Youths, whose bosoms swell\\nWith emulation at the name,\\nStill on his peerless virtues dwell,\\nAnd trace his footsteps up to fame.\\nFor us he traced Columbia s shore,\\nTo various ills and death expos d\\nFor us the cares of empire bore;\\nFor us a life of glory closed.\\nStill shall his name, to freedom dear,\\nWake virtuous deeds and thoughts refined\\nAnd grateful recollection rear\\nHis monument in every mind.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nFUNERAL ORATION.*\\nFellow-Citizens,\\nThe Society of the Cincinnati of Delaware, advance to\\ncontribute their part in the public testimonials of sorrow\\nfor the death, and honor of the memory, of the late\\nillustrious Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United\\nStates.\\nTho our members are few, and our means may be weak,\\nyet, when it is remembered that the distinguished Hero\\nwhose death is deplored, was our Leader in War, our\\nPresident in Peace; and the practical illustrator of those\\nvirtues which we profess to cherish and inculcate we trust\\nit will be allowed, however deficient we may be in expres-\\nsion, that our feelings are strongly interested.\\nThe part of Orator, upon this awful and important occa-\\nsion, has been deputed to me. If an ardent and honest\\nzeal, could compensate for inexperience and very limited\\nabilities, I should expect to command your attention but\\nfeeling as I do most sensibly, how unequal my talents are\\nto the great subject before me, I must earnestly solicit, what\\nI am certain I shall much need, your kind and candid\\nindulgence.\\nMr. President, Brethren and Fellow- Citizens,\\nThe truly eminent and illustrious Hero and Patriot, Gen-\\nThe quaint orthography, arrangement of sentences and punctuation of\\nthe following oration, are exact copies of the original.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 9 1\\neral George Washington, whose death we now deplore,\\nwas the Friend, the Father, of his Country; the kind\\nencourager and supporter of Virtue and the protector of\\nmillions. He was the shield and sword of America in\\nhim our most sanguine hopes of public good were real-\\nized by him our greatest fears of political evil were\\nhushed.\\nWhatever the imagination can conceive of great and\\ngood, of awful and sublime in human nature, may be justly\\nascribed to his character. His was intrinsic grandeur.\\nGreat in himself, he shone like a Pharos, fixed upon the\\nimmovable and impregnable rock of virtue, to direct us\\ninto the fair ports of Peace, Liberty and Safety. In the\\nexpressive language of the inimitable Shakespeare\\nHe was a combination and a form indeed, where every\\ngod did seem to set his seal to give the world assurance\\nof his worth.\\nThe remembrance of the various relations in which he\\nstood and acted, as Hero, Patriot, Statesman, Citizen, Hus-\\nband, Father, Son and Brother his undaunted Courage,\\nhis inflexible Virtue, his superior Wisdom and his important\\nServices, excite such uncommon sensations and press with\\nsuch force upon the mind, when we consider the magnitude\\nof our loss, that imagination sinks under the mighty im-\\npression. Language is too weak, all customary modes\\nand forms of grief too poor and too trifling, to give utter-\\nance to the solemn and deep sensation of our complicated\\nwoe. It imposes an awful and an agonizing Silence\\nIn the first paroxism of public grief, if we had been\\nguilty of some excesses if, overstepping the modesty of", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nnature, and the dignity of republicans we had spoken or\\nacted, in the opinion of abstract reason, absurd or indis-\\ncreet, the world might pity, but could not condemn us.\\nBut now, my Brethren and Fellow-Citizens, when we\\nhave had leisure to reason and reflect, when the hurry and\\ntumult of our affections have had time to subside, let us\\nendeavor to withdraw our thoughts from the melancholy\\nand afflicting part of the subject, and, with a proper reliance\\non Providence with a manly and decent sense of our loss\\nand a due respect for the honour of the deceased let us\\nendeavor to draw from it some consolation and useful in-\\nstruction. It is highly fertile in both.\\nOur beloved Washington lived long enough for his\\ncountry he lived long enough for his own glory. His\\nfame arrived at maturity, full and round, and fair he has\\ndropped into the bosom of eternity. I dare not attempt to\\nwithdraw the veil that hides eternity from the eyes of men\\nbut I indulge a most lively hope, that his useful labors, and\\nhis virtuous life, have ensured to his pure spirit a welcome\\nreception in the mansions of eternal bliss and the highest\\napprobation of Heaven\\nWith this hope my Brethren and Fellow-Citizens, let us\\nendeavor to change our griefs into joy.\\nOught we not greatly to exult, that our country has\\nproduced the fairest and grandest example of Virtue,\\nPatriotism and Honor, in the character of our late illus-\\ntrious President, that history has yet recorded What may\\nhave been the merits and virtues of the first Heroes and\\nStatesmen which Greece produced after it was colonized by\\nEgypt, I know not their characters have been transmitted", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 93\\nto us so shrouded with fable and obscured by allegory, that\\nwe can have no very definite idea of them but the annals\\nof mankind, so far as they can be traced with accuracy\\nand understood with perspicuity, afford no parallel to our\\nWASHINGTON.\\nMonarchs of the world turn over the pages of his life,\\nand irradiate your brows with the lustre of his Virtues\\nPopular Leaders learn from his life, that all ambition\\nwhich has not for its basis private virtue and for its end pub-\\nlic good, is ruinous to society and defeats its own purposes.\\nThe life of our matchless Chief forms a new aera in the\\npolitical world: the pomp and power of Kings, the triumphs\\nof Conquerors, the pageantry of State and the pride of An-\\ncestry, are all obscured by the radiance of his glory.\\nHis glory, to use the correct language of Mr. Addi-\\nson, is impregnable all the assailants of his renown do\\nbut shew their impatience of its brightness, without throw-\\ning the least shade upon it. All that can be offered against\\nit is rumor; which is too short-lived to stand in competi-\\ntion with its glory, which is everlasting.\\nHow consoling is the hope that the memory of his ser-\\nvices and virtues will live and be a grand and powerfully\\nstimulating example, to the present and future ages, of\\nevery virtuous and patriotic duty.\\nHappy People who have been favored by Heaven with\\nthe presence and example of such exalted Virtue, to pre-\\nserve, direct and enlighten you\\nWorthy Hero to have commanded the generous con-\\nfidence, the grateful plaudits and the unfeigned sorrows of\\na free and virtuous People", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nFrom the earliest period of his manhood, our Washing-\\nton was marked by the penetrating eye of observation, as\\nhaving something in his appearance more than usual to\\nrecommend him. He was above the common stature, well\\nproportioned, a manly figure, with features strongly marked.\\nBut it was not these alone which so particularly attracted\\nnotice with these alone, he might have been only the\\ngreatest wrestler on the green. It was the seal of Heaven,\\nimpressed by his principles and his virtues, which gave\\nlustre to his countenance and dignity to his manners. It\\nwas the brightness of his pure mind, emanating thro the\\nmass which enclosed it, that drew from the wise observers\\nof human nature the presages of his future greatness and\\nworth.\\nNear the banks of the Monongahela, our Hero gave\\nto the world the first proofs of that uncommon presence of\\nmind and strong military genius, which fulfilled in part the\\npredictions in his favor and which afterwards made him\\nbe considered as the hope and bulwark of America.\\nThere surrounded by the wily Indians, who lay in am-\\nbush to receive him, the obstinate and unfortunate Brad-\\ndock, fell a victim to his own temerity.\\nHis troops, close wedged in ranks, agreeably to the\\ntactics of Europe, fell under the well-directed fire of the\\nunseen Indians. Terror, rout, despair and death, flew\\nrapidly along their ranks. The Indian yell, dreadfully\\ntriumphant, echoed from hill to hill and the horrid toma-\\nhawk began to close the scene of death and carnage which\\ntheir fire had commenced, when Washington, (then low\\nin command and whose advice to Braddock previous to", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 95\\nthe action had been haughtily rejected), rushes to the con-\\nflict and placing himself with a few Virginians, between\\nthe Indians and Europeans, he commands respect, restores\\norder, banishes despair, covers the retreat and saves the\\nremnant of the army from the cruel triumphs of the savage\\nfoe.\\nUpon the commencement of the War between Great\\nBritain and America, he is called by the unanimous voice\\nof Congress to command the armies of his country.\\nAlready had the virtuous and patriotic sons of New\\nEngland opposed with vigor the well-trained veterans of\\nBritain, upon the heights above Boston.\\nHere our Hero hastes, and adding by his presence the\\ndignity of system, the force of discipline and the wisdom\\nof experience, to the native courage of injured and incensed\\nFreemen, he in a short time confines the insolence and\\nravages of the foe within the narrow bounds of Boston\\nand from thence, by judicious dispositions, without risking\\nhis army, he at length dislodges them.\\nBaffled and disappointed here, the enemy with a for-\\nmidable army, under the command of leaders of distin-\\nguished military fame, land on Long Island; determined\\nby seizing New York and the passes on the North River,\\nto separate the northern from the southern States, and\\nreduce us to unconditional submission. Our hasty-raised,\\nundisciplined and ill-provided troops, yield to the discipline,\\nnumbers and gallantry of the well-appointed and veteran\\nfoe. Defeat follows defeat. Long Island, New York,\\nWhite Plains, Fort Washington, witness the triumphs of\\nour enemies and tho the wisdom and valor of our Hero", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "96 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nis eminently displayed in all the trying difficulties that\\nassail him, he is overborne by the peculiar circumstances\\nunder which his army was formed and the superior force\\nof the Britons. Our armies fly and diminish before the\\nmarch of the enemy across New Jersey.\\nThe warmest advocates for American Independence\\nalmost despair. Patriotism seems paralized. The Dela-\\nware river opposes the first effectual barrier to the suc-\\ncessful progress of the foe.\\nHere our Hero finally makes a stand, attended only by\\nthe miserable remains of an army, almost naked, ill-pro-\\nvided and dispirited apparently deserted by their country\\nand with little hope of succor; God, and the justice of\\ntheir cause, their chief support.\\nThis, this was the time to try men s souls. Firm and\\nundaunted, his penetrating genius, piercing thro the thick\\nglooms that surround him, saw in bright perspective, the\\nfuture fortunes that await. Superior to clouds and storms\\nand all the frowning horrors of a rigorous winter, he medi-\\ntates the blow which, in this important crisis, was to decide\\nthe fate of our country.\\nIt was night the Delaware lay between him and the foe\\nits waters, swol n by preceding rains and charged with\\nice, rushed impetuously do n its channel and crashed on\\nthe shores with terrific and sounding violence, making the\\ndarkness most horrible. Unappalled by the terrors of the\\nstream insensible to the sev .rity of the weather and un-\\nawed by the veteran skill of tne enemy, he, with his hardy\\nlittle band, trained in the school of misfortune, crosses the\\nriver.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 97\\nThe veteran Legions of Germany, posted at Trenton, fall\\nvictims to the rapid, vigorous and well-concerted attack, or\\nthrow down their arms in despair and are made captive.\\nTriumphant, our Hero re-crosses the river, with near\\none thousand Hessians in his train, sad but convincing wit-\\nnesses of his military skill and vigor.\\nA small reinforcement of militia from Pennsylvania and\\nDelaware now arrive. (Gallant and Heroic men may your\\ngray hairs, if any of you yet live, be honored and may you\\nfind shelter from the bleak winds of poverty in the bosom\\nof your country Our gallant Chief again crosses the\\nriver and takes post with his army at Trenton.\\nThe enemy, with superior force, approach the town, which\\nhe is obliged to abandon.\\nHere, by one of the grandest military manoeuvres that\\never decided the fate of empire, he defeats the foe and\\nsnatches from their grasp what they had already counted a\\nsure victory.\\nThe morning sun had hardly banished the shadows of\\nthe night, under whose cover our Washington had saved\\nhis little army from the impending and apparently unavoid-\\nable ruin which threatened it at Trenton, before it saw him\\nvictorious over the valiant veterans of Britain, on the fields\\nof Princeton.\\nThe infant Genius of America, who but a few days before,\\nwith drooping wing cowered down and wailed in the wintry\\nblasts that swept the shores ,of Delaware now exulting\\nsoars aloft, beating with strong pinions the surrounding air;\\nand from North to South is heard her voice Americans\\nYou shall be free", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nFrom Princeton, our Hero crosses the country and takes\\npost on the commanding heights near Morristown, here\\ncollecting and concentrating the scattered hopes of his\\ncountry, he bounds the ravages and represses the triumphs\\nof the enemy from here, by well-timed movements, by\\njudicious marches and counter-marches of his main army,\\nhe eludes a general engagement, while he fortifies the im-\\nportant passes of the North-River and covers the country.\\nBy the most prudent and well-directed applications of the\\nprinciples of the Petit-Guerrc, he annoys the posts and em-\\nbarrasses the movements of the enemy s army, and by small\\ndetachments and parties, cutting off their supplies, he at\\nlength forces them to abandon every position they had\\ntaken in the interior of the country and shelter themselves\\nin New York, under the protection of their fleets and strong\\nfortresses.\\nThe enemy now change the scene of action, foiled in\\ntheir attempts to cut off the communication of the northern\\nfrom the southern States.\\nA blow must be struck at our vitals. Ignorant, they are\\nyet to learn that the strength and spirit of a true republic\\nis not confined to one part, but exists in every part.\\nThey land in force near Elkton, in Maryland, and advance\\nwith hasty marches towards Philadelphia. Our valiant and\\nprudent Chief, with his small but heroic army, opposes their\\npassage across the Brandywine.\\nAt Chadd s-ford, the battle rages. There the Britons are\\nmade to feel the force of the American cannon and the\\nriver is dyed with blood. Our hardy veterans, trained and\\ninured to battle, and rendered superior to misfortune and", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 99\\ndefeat by the great example of their Chief, who was every-\\nwhere present, from morning until the sun began to sink in\\nthe west, gallantly defended the passes of the river. Out-\\nflanked at length by superior numbers, they are compelled\\nto retreat, and victory is to the Britons. But it was a vic-\\ntory, such as Washington sometimes would give them a\\nvictory attended with all the evils of a defeat and which\\nonly facilitated their ruin.\\nPhiladelphia, contrary to the opinions of short-sighted\\npoliticians, who are not unfrequently loud and numerous, is\\nleft undefended by our prudent Chief he is suspected, he\\nis censured as if the fate of our country depended on the\\npossession of that city. Conscious of his integrity, his\\nelevated soul, superior to the clamors of the moment,\\nadheres with the dignity of wisdom and the firmness of\\nprobity, to that line of conduct which his sagacious and\\npenetrating mind had discovered to be best leaving to time\\nand future circumstances, to justify it.\\nThe British enter peaceably into the city but they have\\nhardly more than tasted the pleasures and luxuries of this\\nAmerican Capua, when Washington proves how fallacious\\nwere the hopes they had formed from the possession of it,\\nand how very uncertain was the tenure by which they\\nheld it.\\nThe thunder of the American cannon bursts on the fields\\nof Germantown, and is reverberated thro the streets of\\nPhiladelphia. Our gallant veterans, inspired by the heroic\\nardor and directed by the wisdom of their Washington,\\ncarry death into the ranks of the British army on the points\\nof their bayonets. The Britons fall they fly their camp\\nofCj", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "IOO HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nis stormed and the American ensigns wave in it triumphant.\\nConfusion and despair preside in the hosts of Britain and\\nthe city is about to be abandoned. A considerable number\\nof the fugitives, pressed in their flight, throw themselves\\nhastily into a house, strongly posted. This retards the\\nsuccessful progress of our hitherto victorious army and the\\nBritons have time to rally. Dreadful was the conflict.\\nNow the peculiar felicity of the military genius of our Hero,\\nwhich ranks him above all the military leaders who have\\npreceded him in point of time, is brilliantly exemplified.\\nVictory may be purchased too dear, and the honor of the\\nfield cannot compensate for the effusion of blood which may\\nbe lavished to obtain it. Tho victory is certain, his cool\\nand comprehensive mind views at a glance, the sacrifice it\\nrequires.\\nHe orders a retreat, leaving the ground to the Britons,\\nand returns really victorious, with little comparative loss, to\\nhis original position near White-marsh.\\nThe sanguine expectations of the enemy from the pos-\\nsession of Philadelphia being effectually blasted, and awed\\nby the evidently superior talents of Washington and the\\nexperienced valor of his now veteran army, they abandon\\nthe city in haste and march thro New-Jersey, in order to\\ntake shelter again in New- York. Our Hero, attentive to\\nall their movements, is soon upon their rear they are\\nharassed and offer him battle on the plains of Monmouth.\\nOur gallant veterans rush to the charge, the field and\\nvictory are ours.\\nHere Washington establishes a fact, till then denied in\\nthe British, and even doubted by some in the American", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. IOI\\narmy that is that the grenadiers of Britain could be\\nmade to tremble and fly at the gleam of the American\\nbayonet. A fact that I trust you, my fellow-citizens, whose\\nmilitary appearance bespeaks you prepared for the defence\\nof your country, will, if occasion should offer, amply verify.\\nNay, were it extended, and instead of the grenadiers of\\nBritain, if we say the chosen troops of combined Europe,\\nshould they dare to invade our peaceful soil, shall be made\\nto tremble and fly at the gleam of the American bayonet.\\nFarther to trace the sublime paths of honor and virtue\\nin which our much-beloved Hero and Statesman trode;\\nto delineate with precision the actions of his life to re-\\ncapitulate his many and distinguished services in peace\\nand in war, in the field and in the cabinet and to decorate\\nthem with that glowing and elegant language which the\\nsubject demands comports not either with my leisure or\\nmy abilities.\\nTo many of you, my Brethren and Fellow-Citizens, it\\nwould be unnecessary. You have been eye-witnesses and\\npartakers of his misfortunes and his triumphs. You have\\nseen him in those awful and critical situations that try\\nmen s souls. You have seen him terrible to the enemies\\nof your country in the field of battle calm and unmoved,\\nsustaining the severest pressure of misfortune and defeat\\nhumane and modest when triumphant unassuming in\\nthe retired shades of private citizenship and pre-eminently\\nwise, great and good when invested with the presidential\\nauthority. No force of eloquence, or power of description,\\ncan make a deeper impression of his worth than is already\\nimprinted on your minds.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nBut could I command the eloquence of a Demosthenes,\\nand the extensively sublime imagination of a Milton, I\\nwould stamp the bright images of our Hero s character\\nupon the hearts of my younger fellow-citizens, the bloom-\\ning hopes of our country. I would enforce them to ad-\\nmire, to imitate and plant his virtues in their minds. As\\nit is, let it suffice that I have endeavored, with a rude pencil\\nand unsteady hand, to sketch some of the most prominent\\nfeatures of his character and touch some of the stronger\\noutlines of his military actions.\\nI leave the subject in able hands. Our country, which\\nhas produced a Washington, has not failed to produce\\norators, poets and historians, who with a grand and steady\\npencil can draw the strong as well as the fine outlines of\\nhis life and finish it with all that bold and elegant relievo\\nit so eminently merits.\\nWhen I consider the character, the conduct and the\\nfortunes of our late illustrious Chief when I revolve in\\nmy mind the series of events which have happened within\\nthe last twenty years and thence take a retrospect into\\nthe volumes of antiquity, I cannot avoid fancying I hear\\na voice resounding from the deep abyss of time in which\\nnations and ages, now no more, are plunged and in\\naccents loud enough to be heard and in language too plain\\nto be misunderstood, savins:\\nCitizens of America\\nNational happiness and national virtue, are inseparably\\nconnected. Despair not that your Washington is no\\nmore Continue to deserve the favor of Heaven. Adore\\nthe Almighty venerate and encourage religion.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 103\\nLet the maxims and virtues of Washington be your\\nstandards of political truth and worth.\\nPatronize merit honor virtue. Place a generous con-\\nfidence, worth}- of true republicans, in those whom you\\nappoint to rule over you.\\nThus, tho your Washington is dead, his virtues will\\nlive. They will rise with the occasion for them, and be\\ndisplayed in the field, in the senate and in the cabinet.\\nBut, as if unforewarned by the past and blind to the\\nfuture, you forget the Almighty Hand that raised you to\\nyour present state of national exaltation if wealth usurps\\nthe place of honor, and servility of merit if party becomes\\nthe standard of political truth and worth if the avenues\\nto public confidence and public gratitude cannot be entered,\\nwithout wading thro the mire of vile dependence, or by\\nbribing the avarice or the appetites of those appointed to\\nguard them\\nDread then the coming storm then deplore, not only\\nthe loss of your Washington, but, what is more to be\\nlamented, the absence of his virtues and the loss of the\\nfavor of Heaven.\\nBe virtuous, be united, I conjure you. This done, tho\\nstorms from without may threaten tho mines within may\\nagitate by neither will the solid edifice of your national lib-\\nerty and happiness be destroyed. The boasted diplomatic\\nskill of France, the more secret skill of Britain, or the com-\\nbined force and skill of Europe, may be equally unregarded.\\nThus you will transmit to posterity, unimpaired, those\\nexalted rights and privileges for which your much-lamented\\nWashington fought and toiled.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "104 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nAPPENDIX L.\\nThe Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati was form-\\nally reorganized by the descendants of the original members,\\nwith others, in Wilmington, Delaware, on the twenty-second\\nday of February, 1895, in conformity with the preliminary\\nsteps taken on November the sixth, 1894. The meeting\\nwas held in the room of the United States District Court,\\nSixth and King Streets, and was presided over by the\\nHon. Leonard Eugene Wales, Judge of the United States\\nDistrict and Circuit Courts for Delaware; Mr. John Osgood\\nPiatt acting as Secretary. After a permanent organization\\nhad been effected, and the credentials of all applicants for\\nmembership were carefully and thoroughly examined by a\\ncommittee appointed by the chair for that purpose, and\\nfavorably reported on, the following officers were elected to\\nserve until the first regular stated meeting of the Society,\\non the fourth day of July following\\nHon. Leonard Eugene Wales, President.\\nColonel M Lane Tilton, U.S.M.C, Vice-President.\\nHaslet Wylie Crawford, Secretary.\\nJohn Osgood Piatt, Assistant Secretary.\\nPhilip Howell White, Treasurer.\\nSamuel Seay Roche, Assistant Treasurer.\\nChaplain. (No election.)", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "Z7/t0-rnuiL4 \u00c2\u00bb^%eax^\\nV? yt i ^7%l*A aAfi\u00c2\u00a3L--\\ni 740-1 788.\\nPORTRAIT IN POSSESSION OF I", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 105\\nIn addition to the foregoing eldest descendants and rep-\\nresentatives of original members of the Society, the Hon.\\nJames William Latimer, James Dobbin McNeill, Charles\\nBreck Adams, Newell Kirkwood Kennon, William Henry\\nKirkpatrick, Daniel Edgerly Smith Pope, Samuel Price\\nJaquett, Thomas David Pearce, and Calvin Smith Bennett\\nwere also elected as members, while several others equally\\nqualified have since applied to be added to the Roll.\\nGeneral John Meredith Read, formerly United States\\nMinister to Greece, and great-grandson of Hon. George\\nRead, President and Chief-Justice of Delaware and signer\\nof the Declaration of Independence; also great-grand-\\nnephew of Colonel James Read and Captain Thomas\\nRead of the Continental Navy (the latter being an original\\nmember of the Pennsylvania Cincinnati, but who left no de-\\nscendants) Mr. Henry Geddes Banning, President of the\\nDelaware National Bank, and only grandson of Captain\\nHenry Geddes, likewise of the Continental Navy; as well as\\nCaptain Henry Hobart Bellas, United States Army (retired),\\nthe representative in the eldest line of descent of Lieutenant\\nJohn Rudolph of the Pennsylvania Line and also of Cap-\\ntains John and Michael Rudolph of Major Henry Lee s\\nPartisan Legion of the Continental Establishment, were\\nlikewise, by reason of their services (though all eligible to\\nhereditary membership under the provisions of the original\\nInstitution), for the present elected honorary members of\\nthe Society.\\nThe following delegates were also selected to represent\\nthe Society and to prepare and present its application for\\nrecognition by the General Society at the latter s next", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "106 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\ntriennial meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., on the second\\nWednesday in May, 1896: Hon. Leonard Eugene Wales;\\nColonel M Lane Tilton, U. S. Marine Corps Hon. James\\nWilliam Latimer Philip Howell White (late Engineer, U. S.\\nNavy) and Captain Henry Hobart Bellas, U. S. Army.\\nThe Society directed a circular letter to be prepared and\\nforwarded to the Secretary of the General Society and to\\nthe Secretaries of the other State Societies respectively,\\nnotifying them of the revival of the Delaware Society in\\naccordance with the requirements of the General Society,\\nand which have all been carefully complied with.*\\nA committee was appointed to prepare a code of by-laws\\nand an order of business for the government of the Society,\\nwhich will meet annually on its anniversary days, viz. the\\ntwenty-second of February, the fourth of July, and the\\nsixth of November, unless otherwise directed.\\nA board of trustees was also designated to superintend,\\nunder the direction of a Standing Committee, the finances of\\nthe Society, which are in a flourishing condition, the entire\\noriginal fund of fifteen hundred and thirty-five dollars\\nhaving been restored by the members. The old National\\nBank of Delaware (originally organized in 1795, and stated\\nto have been at one time the place of deposit of the former\\nSociety), was designated as the depository of the present\\nSociety s funds.\\nNo other than the proper descendants or representatives\\nof original members excepting the designated ratio of hono-\\nThis circular letter, under date of May 10, 1895, has since been forwarded\\nby the Secretary as directed.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 07\\nrary members as directed by the original Institution,\\nhave, in strict conformity with the provisions and spirit\\nthereof, been admitted to membership in the Society.\\nA committee having been appointed to take steps to have\\nthe Society incorporated by act of Legislature, in order to\\nsecure the proper recognition of its legal status by the State\\nof Delaware, a charter of incorporation, on the application\\nof the representatives of thirteen of the original members,\\nwas procured from the General Assembly (dated the twen-\\ntieth day of March, 1895), recognizing and constituting the\\npresent Society the lawful successor of the original one.*\\nThe proper representatives of Colonels John Haslet and\\nDavid Hall; of Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Pope; of\\nMajors John Patten, Daniel Jenifer Adams, and Robert\\nKirkwood of Surgeons James Tilton, Henry Latimer, and\\nGeorge Monro of Captains Peter Jaquett, William McKen-\\nnan, Edward Roche, and David Kirkpatrick; of Lieutenants\\nCaleb Prew Bennett, John Piatt, and Stephen McWilliam\\nall original members, are already borne upon the roll of\\nthe Society, while others, as their claims are carefully\\ninvestigated and approved, will be added at the Society s\\nfuture successive meetings, if found worthy.\\nAmong these it is hoped and probably will be included\\nthe representatives of Majors Joseph Anderson, Nathaniel\\nMitchell, and James Moore; of Captains Harry Duff,\\nGeorge Purvis, and Thomas Kean of Surgeons Reuben\\nGilder, Ebenezer Augustus Smith, and James Jones of\\nLieutenants John Vance Hyatt and Thomas Anderson.\\nSee Appendix M.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nThe gallant Captain Allen McLane is already most\\nworthily represented in the Maryland Society by its Presi-\\ndent, who is likewise the Vice-President-General and acting\\nPresident- General of the General Society.\\nCareful and patient research has been certainly well\\nrepaid in the results now manifested, and let us hope that,\\nwith this successful revival and reorganization of the Del-\\naware State Society of the Cincinnati by the representatives\\nof such a large proportion of the original members and\\nits early recognition by the General organization, it may\\ncontinue to be for all future time as it has been in the\\npast an honor to both the Order and its native State.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "1 749- lS 33-\\ni", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 09\\nAPPENDIX M.\\nAn Act to incorporate the Delaware State Society\\nof the Cincinnati.\\nWhereas Upon the dissolution of the American Revo-\\nlutionary Army in the year 1783, in cantonment on Hud-\\nson s River, State of New York, the officers of the said\\nArmy, then and there present, did associate themselves into\\na Society of Friends and adopted the name of The\\nSociety of the Cincinnati, for the purpose of promoting\\nand preserving the rights and liberties of their country and\\nto cherish the union of the States and also for mutual aid\\nand beneficence among themselves and their descendants,\\nas set forth in the original Institution of the said Society.\\nAnd Whereas Colonel David Hall and other officers\\nin the Delaware Line of said Army, did, in accordance\\nwith the provisions of the hereinbefore recited Institution,\\nformally establish and organize themselves into the Dela-\\nware State Society of the Cincinnati, and the hereinafter\\nnamed lineal male descendants and representatives of the\\nsaid David Hall and the other original members of the\\nsaid State Society, being desirous of reviving and reorgan-\\nizing the same, therefore\\nBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-\\ntives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met,\\n(two-thirds of each branch concurring therein)", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "IIO HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE\\nSection i. That Leonard Eugene Wales, M Lane Tilton,\\nJames William Latimer, Philip Howell White, Charles\\nBreck Adams, Daniel Edgerly Smith Pope, Newell Kirk-\\nwood Kennon, James Dobbin McNeill, Haslet Wylie Craw-\\nford, William Henry Kirkpatrick, Samuel Seay Roche,\\nJohn Osgood Piatt and Samuel Price Jaquett and their\\nsuccessors, being the descendants and representatives afore-\\nsaid, be and they are hereby ordained and declared to be\\na body corporate under the name and style of the\\nDelaware State Society of the Cincinnati.\\nSection 2. The said corporation shall be able and capable\\nto sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all courts\\nof law and equity, and shall be capable in law, to purchase,\\nreceive, take, hold and enjoy any lands, tenements, heredita-\\nments, rents, leases, stocks, goods, chattels or money which\\nmay be devised, given or conveyed to it, or which may\\ncome to its hands, by or from the payment of fees, fines or\\ndues from the members of the said corporation, and also to\\ngrant, alien, sell, bestow, convey and assign or transfer the\\nsame and to do all acts concerning the same, which an indi-\\nvidual owner thereof can do in law, by the name and title\\naforesaid, and shall have a common seal, with power to\\nbreak, alter and renew the same at pleasure.\\nSection 3. That the members of the said corporation\\nshall have power to appoint or elect such officers as they\\ndeem proper and necessary to conduct the affairs and\\nmanage the business of said corporation, and from time to\\ntime, make, establish and put into execution, agreeable to\\nthe provisions of this Act, such by-laws, rules and regula-\\ntions as they shall deem necessary and desirable for the", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. Ill\\ngood government of the said corporation and its proper\\nbusiness; provided, that such by-laws, rules and regulations,\\nbe not contrary or repugnant to the laws and Constitutions\\nof the United States or of this State.\\nSection 4. That said corporation shall have power to\\nhold and possess lands, tenements, goods, chattels, rights\\nor credits, or any other property, the clear yearly income of\\nwhich shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars\\n($5000), and provided that nothing in this Act shall be\\nconstrued to authorize said corporation to exercise any\\nbanking powers.\\nSection 5. This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a\\nprivate Act.\\nHenry H. McMullen,\\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives,\\nPassed at Dover,\\nMarch 20, 1895.\\nW. T. Watson,\\nSpeaker of the Senate.", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE STATE SOCIETY.\\nSTATE OF DELAWARE.\\n[ARMS OF DELAWARE.]\\nExecutive Department.\\nI, Nathaniel B. Smithers, Secretary of State of the\\nState of Delaware, do hereby certify that the above and\\nforegoing is a true and correct copy of an Act to incorpo-\\nrate the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati, passed\\nat Dover, March 20, 1895.\\nIn Testimony whereof I have hereunto\\nset my hand and official seal at Dover,\\n[seal.] this fifth day of April in the year of our\\nLord one thousand eight hundred and\\nninety-five.\\nN. B. Smithers,\\nSecretary of State.\\nState of Delaware,\\nNew Castle County. J\\nRecorded in the Recorder s Office at Wilmington, in\\nPrivate Act Record E, Vol. I., page 595, etc., the sixth day\\nof April, A.D. 1895.\\n[seal.] Witness my hand and official seal.\\nC. C. Montgomery,\\nRecorder.\\n1C", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "J\\nA\\nA N\\nv\\ny 4\\nA\\nv\\nV*\\n1 A\\nV^\\nr\\n,0 o.\\n-v\\nv A\\ns^\\nA\\njp\\n.0e\\nA\\nc-\\nA X\\nA V\\nV*\\nS\\nx", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "V\\n-y", "height": "3414", "width": "1967", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n111 mil mil iiiii mil mil\\n0011 7127187", "height": "3689", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "historyofdelawar01bell_0154.jp2"}}