Excerpt from Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts The memoir of General Knox has assumed larg proportions than was originally intended, partly b cause of the importance of the subject, and part from the abundance of the materials furnished 1 his grandson. The worthy President of the Societ Another no less important reason is that no bio raphy of that distinguished man has hitherto be published; and it has seemed but just, therefore, th the Society which he founded should recognize this manner their Obligation to his memory. Should be borne in mind in reading Knox's lette that the greater part of them exist only in the orig nal rough drafts, and hence occasional inaccuraci and ungrammatical expressions will be noticed, whit the letters themselves would probably not contain. 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.