. The World almanac and encyclopedia. so-called •aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati. It wasessentially anti-Federalist or democratic in its character, and its chief founder was William Moorey,an upholsterer and a native-born American of Irish extraction. It took its first title from a notedancient wise and fiiendlychief of the Delaware tribe of Indians, named Tammany, whohad, for the wantof abetter subject, been canonized by the soldiers of the Revolution as the American patron first meeting was held May 12, 1789. The act of incorporation was passed in 1805. The C4randSachem and
. The World almanac and encyclopedia. so-called •aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati. It wasessentially anti-Federalist or democratic in its character, and its chief founder was William Moorey,an upholsterer and a native-born American of Irish extraction. It took its first title from a notedancient wise and fiiendlychief of the Delaware tribe of Indians, named Tammany, whohad, for the wantof abetter subject, been canonized by the soldiers of the Revolution as the American patron first meeting was held May 12, 1789. The act of incorporation was passed in 1805. The C4randSachem and thirtren Sachems were designed to typify the President and the Governors of the thirteenoriginal States. William Mooney was the first Grand Sachem. The Society Ls nominally a charitableand social organization, and is distinct from the general committee of the Tammany Democracy,which is a political organization and cannot use Tammany Hall without the consent of the Society. 342 Society of the Cincinnati. .Socictg of ti)e (Kmcinnatf*. GKNKRAL, OFFICEBS. President- Oeneral Hon. William Wayne, Pa. Vice-President- General Hon. Winslow Warren, Mass. if/^ ^-^k Srcretary-Generol Hon. Asa Bird Gardiner, , R. I. ^^^^?4 Assistant Secretary-General Hon. Nicholas Fish, N. Y. ,V*^^^#, _^l^^^ Treasurer-General Mr. Frederick Wolcott Jackson. N. J. Assistant Treasurer-General Mr. John Cropper, Va. The historic and patriotic Order of the Cincinnati was founded by theAmerican and French officers at the cantonments of the Continental army onthe Hudson at the close of hostilities in the Warof the Revolution for AmericanIndependence in May, 1783. In forming the society it was declared that, To perpetuate, therefore, the remembrance of this vast event as the mutual friendships which havebeen formed under the pressure of common danger, and, in many instances,cemented by the blood of the parties, the officei-s of the American army dohereby, in the most solemn manner, associate, consti
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