Richard Varick
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Richard Varick was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who has been referred to as "The Forgotten Founding Father." A major figure in the development of post-Independence New York City and the state of New York, Varick became the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1801.
Portrait of Varick by Henry Inman (ca. 1831)
Signature of Richard Varick while Mayor of New York (1798)
Society of the Cincinnati
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The Society of the Cincinnati is a fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War that saw the creation of the United States. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army.
Portrait of General George Washington, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati, by Edward Savage, 1790 (Harvard Art Museums).
Cincinnatus Abandons the Plow to Dictate Laws to Rome, by Juan Antonio Ribera, (Museo del Prado).
The Verplanck House (present-day Mount Gulian), Fishkill, New York, Steuben's headquarters, where the Society was instituted May 13, 1783.
Insignia of the Society, c. 1783.