Freemasons. Essex Lodge (Salem, Mass.)

Scope and Contents Printed Masonic certificate with imagery of drapery along the top with two columns at the center and three steps along the bottom. There are two Native figures at bottom left and two classical figures at bottom right. On the top step are a box, a book, a square and compasses, and a globe. There is text at left and right on the far side of the columns. In between the columns, it reads, "To all Brethren through the world, Anno Lucis / We, the members of Essex Lodge, regularly constituted / at...

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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.

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Typed letter to R.P. Beach, Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, concerning the enclosure which is a Masonic certificate from Essex Lodge, Salem. Note: the Masonic certificate is not with the typed letter

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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."

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Manuscript receipt for a dinner at Essex Lodge, marked paid in full by Benjamin Webb