Freemasons. Essex Lodge (Salem, Mass.)
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Circular letter from Essex Lodge to Liberty Lodge, 1854 June 4
Letter to Jonathan Greenwood from William Leavitt, 1854
Manuscript letter to Jonathan Greenwood, Secretary of Middlesex Lodge, Framingham, Mass. (also Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of Mass.) from William Leavitt, Secretary of Essex Lodge, Salem, Mass. The letter concerns the declining of an invitation by Middlesex Lodge, possibly for St. John's Day activities.
Master Mason certificate issued to Samuel Derby, 1796
Master Mason certificate issued by Essex Lodge (Salem, Massachusetts) to Samuel Derby and dated 1796. The Dutch inscription on the back of certificate is notation/affidavit of Samuel Derby’s visit to the La Vertueuse lodge in Batavia, Dutch East Indies or nowadays Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 15, 1801. The imprint on bottom of certificate reads "J. Hiller jun'r, del. S. Hill sc."