APPENDIX I

division afterwards marching off to its table, after proper guards for
their insignias, &c. are posted. The Artillery will close the rear and fire
2 guns as a signal for dining, upon coming to their station, where the
flag is displayed. While at dinner 10 guns will be fired at each toast.
At 5 o'clock P. M. two guns will fire as a signal for retiring from the
table by the left, the rear gun leading and firing when arrived on its
ground, the van gun bringing up the rear and firing in its place, after
which the ship will fire 13 guns, the line of Procession face to the right
about, and advance by Bayard's house, wheel into Great George-Street,
proceed down to the Fields, and form on its first ground, when the van
and rear guns will fire in succession, and be answered by a full fire
from the ship, upon which the various parties will return to their re-
spective parades, and there be regularly dismissed.
By Order of the Committee of Arrangements,
RICHARD PLATT, Chairman,
And Superintendant of the Day.
1. Broadside, MHi. This undated broadside has no printer's colophon and is not listed
in Evans. The orders were also printed in the New York Packet, 22 July; Daily Advertiser,
Independent Journal, and New York Journal, 23 July; Pennsylvania Packet, 24 July; and Norfolk
and Portsmouth Journal, 6 August.
2. In the New York Packet, 22 July, "Capt." appears instead of "Jacob."
Victor Marie DuPont to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours
New York, 23 July 1788 (excerpt)'
.. . The 23rd was the great Day of the Procession in honor of the
adoption by ten States. It was composed of all the different bodies of
tradesmen and workers marching one after the other and dragging
with them the principal instruments or Symbols of their Estates, and
the flags and colors with the emblems, devices, &c. I shall annex here
a gazette in which you will find a very pompous description that you will
have to have translated at Irene's; it was very considerable, and there
came a great number of countrymen of the neighborhood. There were
some good people who had the idea of dragging through the streets a
vessel so large that it was very difficult, and they were obliged to cut
down many very agreeable trees that bordered some homes. This was
not very marvelous. This vessel cost much money, and is no longer
good for anything. They talk of sending it to France as a present to the
Marquis de la Fayette, and a sailor has undertaken to go there within
a month. This would be a great folly, because it is too weakly timbered
and poorly proportioned. The Chinese pavilion set up outside the city

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