Philadelphia, May 18, 1787. On this date Hamilton filed his credentials and instructions as a delegate from New York to the general meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati held in Philadelphia. Proceedings of the General Society of the Cincinnati, 1784–1884 (Philadelphia, 1887), 31.
2From George Washington to the Society of the Cincinnati, 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
I take this early opportunity, in my character of President of the Cincinnati, of announcing to you, that the triennial General Meeting of the Society is to be convened at the City of Philadelphia on the first Monday of May in the year 1787. As it will not be in my power (for reasons which I shall have the honor of immediately communicating) to attend the next General Meeting; and as it may...