Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Sovereign Grand Consistory (Cerneau)

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A copy of a diploma issued to David Jewett in 1826 by Joseph Cerneau's Sovereign Grand Consistory. The diploma appoints Jewett as the Deputy Grand Inspector General for Brazil. The original certificate was issued in New York on November 3, 1826. This copy, dated December 22, 1865, was signed and sealed by Ruy Germack Possollo, the Grand Secretary General for the Supreme Council and Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio in Rio de Janeiro.

Scope and Contents Manuscript titled, "A History of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States," written by Robert B. Folger sometime between 1860 and 1874. Robert B. Folger published a history of the Scottish Rite in 1862 (Folger belonged to the Joseph Cerneau Supreme Council and therefore writes the history from this perspective). With the history is an extensive appendix containing 38 sections which reproduce and print the original documents, relating to the origin,...

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Collection consists of 5 Minute books: Minute Book of the Cerneau Sovereign Grand Consistory, New York, 1816-1826; Minute Book of Atwood Council, New York, 1856-1857; Minute Book of Atwood Council, New York, 1852-1858; Minute Book of the Hays Council, New York, 1860-1866; Minute Book of the Atwood Council, New York, 1860-1862; all these councils represent early forms of Scottish Rite