Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

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Original Minutes and Letters of Constitution--Supreme Council, NMJ. Manuscript is in the handwriting of Gourgas. Signed by: Daniel D. Tompkins, Sampson Simson, John G. Tardy, Richard Riker, Moses M. L. Peixotto, and John James Joseph Gourgas. The signatures of Emanuel De La Motta are not original. Manuscript is dated August 5, 1813

Content Description Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State. Dated 1866. This manuscript petition from a group of Scottish Rite Freemasons asks the Supreme Council's permission to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in the State of New York. Signed by the officers of Cosmopolitan Sovereign Consistory, No. 1, of New York City; Central City Consistory, No. 3, of Syracuse; Rochester Consistory of Rochester; and Aurora Grata Consistory of Brooklyn. Includes Edward H. Craige's 1915 letter...

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Photograph of active members of Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction that contains 46 oval portraits, (ca 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.) with Sovereign Grand Commander, Henry L. Palmer in center.

Scope and Contents Photograph of drawing of Freemason's Hall, formerly Thorndike Hall, at 10 Summer St., Boston, Massachusetts. It was the temporary quarters of the Grand Lodge of Masons, 1864-1867 and place of the Union of the Supreme Councils A.A.S.R. in 1867. There is a street level sign that says George Hill & Co. There is a typed note taped to verso: "Presented to the Supreme Council, A.A.S.R. for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction by the Massachusetts Council of Deliberation at its annual meeting May...

Scope and Contents Manuscript document consisting of a pledge of allegiance and submission to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, by various Newport Masons. Group of Masons signing the document are Nathan H. Gould, Henry D. DeBlois, George B. Knowles, Samuel V. Mayberry, John D. Dennis, Elisha L. Kenyon, Gilbert Chse, Benjamin I. Tilley, Asa Hildreth, Joseph W. Hazard, James G. Toppam, Jeremiah Bliss. Document signed by G. F. Yates and K. H. Van Rensselaer of the Supreme Council, Northern...

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Portrait album of Supreme Council members, Norther Masonic Jurisdiction. The etchings are by Samuel Hollyer. Most portraits are signed by the sitter and by Hollyer. The portraits includes Josiah H. Drummond, Edward P. Burnham, William Sewall Gardner, Enoch Terry Carlson, and many more.

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A Princes of Jerusalem lifetime membership certificate issued by Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction to Harvey Benjamin Legee, and dated 1940 January 23.