The Society of the Cincinnati

Hand-painted monograms, insignia of various kinds, and patriotic motifs were especially popular.

A tea set decorated in this way was sent to Dr. David Townsend of Boston, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, by a fellow member of the Society, Major Samuel Shaw, American Consul at Canton.

In a letter to Townsend from Canton, China, dated December 20, 1790, Shaw wrote, Accept, my dear friend, as a mark of my esteem and affection, a tea set of porcelain ornamented with a Cincinnati and your cipher.

I hope shortly after its arrival to be with you, and in company with your amiable partner, see whether a little good tea improves or loses any part of its flavor in passing from one hemisphere to the other.

Appended to the letter was the following inventory, which provides us with a list of the pieces deemed essential for a fashionable set tea table.

case of so many of these Muppets from Dahmer and so on, Gacy and Edwards and Mance and so on.

You name them, right? Rodney Alcala, who again is very likely a member of the Society of Cincinnati from a prominent family.

Right.

Also, the whole photography thing.

In fact, I think he took a step out of the Masonic order to do other deeper things with occult sciences and practices.

I think when he created that Society of Cincinnati, that was like him saying, we're going to do our own little sort of secret Templar group over here and really organize this thing so we can start this country.

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Hand-painted monograms, insignia of various kinds, and patriotic motifs were especially popular.

A tea set decorated in this way was sent to Dr. David Townsend of Boston, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, by a fellow member of the Society, Major Samuel Shaw, American consul at Canton.

In a letter to Townsend from Canton, China, dated December 20, 1790, Shaw wrote, accept my dear friend as a mark of my esteem and affection a tea-set of porcelain ornamented with the cincinnati and your cipher i hope shortly after its arrival to be with you and in company with your amiable partner see whether a little good tea improves or loses any part of its flavour in passing from one hemisphere to the other Appended to the letter was the following inventory, which provides us with a list of the pieces deemed essential for a fashionable set tea table.

Two teapots and stands, sugar bowl and dough, milk ewer, bowl and dish, six breakfast cups and saucers, twelve afternoon dew.

But Washington was so honorable that his sense of honor could get in his way.

And there were articles in the paper saying that the Society of the Cincinnati, you know, which exists in America today, it's the society of the, now, the descendants of people who fought in the Revolutionary War.

And, you know, it's named after a Roman statesman who was famous for resigning his commission and returning to private life every time he won a war.

And so they styled themselves after this man.

But then people got the false idea that it was an emerging aristocracy.

And Washington was embarrassed by that because he hated the idea of that, as he would later prove.

And so he decided not to go to a convention of the Cincinnati Convention.

But then he decided, if I go to the Constitutional Convention, it'll be in the papers and it will be apparent that I have snubbed my fellow officers in the Cincinnati.

He's emulating the Roman general, Cincinnatus, and he's called the modern Cincinnatus.

The Cincinnati is named after that, you know, the Society of Cincinnati.

This idea is ingrained in the fundamental founding of America.

Faith,

Yeah, I mean, it's like going to your ancestral family home.

I mean, it is the place where the father of our country cared most deeply about.

Mount Vernon becomes an iconic pilgrimage site for Americans immediately after the war because you can't have Cincinnati without a farm.

And Mount Vernon is the part of that story.

Hand-painted monograms, insignia of various kinds, and patriotic motifs were especially popular.

A tea set decorated in this way was sent to Dr. David Townsend of Boston, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, by a fellow member of the Society, Major Samuel Shaw, American consul at Canton.

In a letter to Townsend from Canton, China, dated December 20, 1790, Shaw wrote, accept my dear friend as a mark of my esteem and affection a tea-set of porcelain ornamented with the cincinnati and your cipher i hope shortly after its arrival to be with you and in company with your amiable partner see whether a little good tea improves or loses any part of its flavour in passing from one hemisphere to the other Appended to the letter was the following inventory, which provides us with a list of the pieces deemed essential for a fashionable set tea table.

Two teapots and stands, sugar bowl and dough, milk ewer, bowl and dish, six breakfast cups and saucers, twelve afternoon dew.

I've not been initiated, but I saw a lot of that in DC stuff that was never really on TV.

Like the order of Cincinnati, there's this very ornate building there called, um, the group of Cincinnati's that's all associated with George Washington.

Like, why isn't this on the media? Why isn't anybody right about this? There's also the house of the temple, which is this huge, um, Egyptian thing.

That's in just North of, uh, you probably bring it up on Google maps.