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idea of the Society of the Cincinnati conceived by, iii. 23; letters of Washington to, iii. 39, 84; retained by Washington as secretary of war in 1789, iii. 121; stay of, in Philadelphia, during the presence of the yellow fever in 1793, iii. 280; succeeded by Timothy Pickering as secretary of war--cause of the resignation of, iii. 330; letter of Washington to, on the occasion of the resignation of,