1. Manuscript draft of articles of confederation for the Society of the Cincinnati (ff. 1r-19r) -- 2. Joseph Leland, Invoices; Boston, 15 Dec. 1786-13 Nov. 1787 (12r-154); and at Scarborough (Me.), 10-11 July 1787 (38r-39v).
Autograph manuscript, unsigned. Title from spine. Bound in 19th-cent. half pebble-grain sheep with cloth boards. MS Richardson 49. Houghton Library, Harvard University. The General Society of the Cincinnati was founded in May 1783 at the Verplank house, Fishkill, New York, by Continental Army officers who fought in the American Revolution. It was organized in fourteen constituent societies, one of which is the Massachusetts Society. After the war, Leland engaged in lumbering and general merchandising in Saco; he was a state senator (1805-1808). He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society (1783-1824). Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library). Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Richardson 49
