Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson.

South Carolina: Jay Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.

Georgia: William Few, Abraham Baldwin.

Attested, William Jackson, Secretary.

At the first meeting, General Washington was unanimously chosen President General and held that office until his death, when he was succeeded by Major General Alexander Hamilton, who in turn remained President General until his tragic death.

Among the great leaders of the American Revolution who became members of the Society, besides George Washington, were Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Green, Friedrich von Steuben, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles C. Pinckney, John Paul Jones, Israel Putnam, John Schuyler, Horatio Gates, James Monroe, William Moultrie, Thaddeus Kosciko, Anthony Wayne, William Sullivan, Light Horse Harry Lee, Arthur St. Clair, and many others.

From the early issue of the New York Directory, many members of the Cincinnati are known to have been Freemasons.

Those mentioned are George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, General Friedrich von Steuben, Chancellor Robert R. Livington, Grand Master, John Paul Jones, and General Henry Knox.