APPENDIX I

execution of the pavillion and tables-to Colonel Stevens,3 who con-
descended to act as quarter-master on the occasion, the success of the
movements of the several machines is in a great measure due; the Com-
mittee therefore beg leave to express the high sense they entertain of
the great assistance they have derived from his industry and profes-
sional knowledge.
A particular account of the Procession will be published as soon as
such materials can be collected from the different branches as will en-
able the Committee to do justice to the ingenuity and taste displayed
on this occasion,
RICHARD PLATT, Chairman.
1. Reprinted in the New York Packet, 25 July; Impartial Gazetteer and Independent Journal,
26 July; Country Journal, 29 July; and in whole or in part in three out-of-state newspapers
by 13 August: Mass. (1), Va. (1), S.C. (1).
2. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French-born architect and civil engineer, came to Amer-
ica in 1777 and served in the Continental Army until January 1784. That same year,
L'Enfant, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, settled in New York City, where he
earned his living as an artist and architect.
3. Probably John Stevens, Jr., a former New Jersey state treasurer, 1776-83, and the
owner of a large estate in present-day Hoboken, N.J., who spent part of the year in New
York City. For his writings in support of the Constitution that were printed in New York
City, see RCS:N.Y., 68, note 1.
William Pitt Smith: Ode on the Adoption of the Constitution
New York Journal, 24 July 1788
New York City's printers marched in the seventh division of the procession
along with a working "Federal Printing-Press" mounted on a horse-drawn stage.
"Many hundred copies" of broadsides of two odes especially written for the
occasion were struck off and distributed "among the multitude" by Archibald
M'Lean of the Independent Journal (Daily Advertiser, 2 August, below). The ode
printed below, which appeared in the Daily Advertiser and New York Journal on
24 July, was probably written by William Pitt Smith, a New York City physician.
(See above under 23 July for the second ode written by Samuel Low.)
The text of Smith's ode has been transcribed from the New York Journal,
where the author was identified only as "Dr S-." The Daily Advertiser mis-
takenly noted that the ode was "Composed by Dr. Smite." Two of the news-
papers that reprinted the ode, the Massachusetts Centinel, 2 August, and the
NewJersey Brunswick Gazette, 5 August, noted that it was written by "Dr. Smith."
None of the reprinting newspapers referred to "Dr. Smite."
William Pitt Smith (1760-1796) was a surgeon's mate in the Continental
Army during the Revolution; a grand sachem of the Society of St. Tammany
or Columbian Order, 1790; a professor of medicine, 1792-96, and clinical
lecturer, 1794-96, Columbia College; a member of the Assembly from New
York County, 1792, 1796; and health officer of the Port of New York, 1795-96.

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