Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies (Hays-Raymond)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Circular issued by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862 November 01
A circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, to all Freemasons living in New York and New Jersey. The circular details the granting of charters and dispensations from a New York City-based Supreme Council (i.e. the Hays Council, with Edmund Burke Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander) and a warning to Masons not to be "deluded into joining" any subordinate bodies chartered by this clandestine Supreme Council. Dated November 1, 1862.
Supreme Council broadside, 1867 May 16
A broadside created by the Hays-Raymond and Van Rensselaer Supreme Councils. Dated May 16, 1867. This document, which was reported for the Boston Post, announces the ratification of the Union of 1867, the unification of the two competing Supreme Councils of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction and outlines terms of their unification.