Excerpt from Portraits of the Presidents General of the Order of the Cincinnati: And of Early Presidents of the Existing State Societies, and Several Other Prominent Original Members and Roll of the General Officers and Hereditary and Honorary Members on the 27th July, 1887 J Major General, the Honorable henry knox, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Convention, and first Secretary General of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.