Drummond, Josiah H. (Josiah Hayden), 1827-1902

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Patent for Clinton F. Paige for Deputy of Supreme Council for New York. Upon the death of Orrin Welch, Sovereign Grand Commander Josiah H. Drummond appointed Clinton Paige Deputy for New York. Certificate is signed by Drummond and Albert P. Moriarty, Assistant Grand Secretary. Engraved Masonic symbols upper portion of certificate include square and compass, urns, sword; gold foil seal lower edge of Patent.

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Letter discusses the following topics: Brazil; Uruguay; Josiah Drummond; Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

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A letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Josiah H. Drummond to John Sheville, the Supreme Council's Deputy for the state of New Jersey. Dated July 8, 1870. In this letter, Drummond commissions Sheville to confer the thirty-third degree upon William Wallace Goodwin.

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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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Includes a proclamation signed by all parties and a negative photostat copy, one signed only by Daniel Sickels, and an unsigned proclamation.

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Treaty of Union for Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction signed by Josiah H. Drummond and Daniel Sickels on May 17, 1867

Scope and Contents Typescript (copy) deposition of Josiah H. Drummond in answer to interrogatories of J. J. Gorman, Esq. of New York (William A. Hershiser, et. als vs. S. Stacker Williams et. als.). This includes the history of Drummond's receiving Scottish Rite degrees in 1859, discussion of the expulsion of Edward A. Raymond from Northern Jurisdiction, expulsion of Van Rensellaer from Northern Jurisdiction in 1862, and history of A.A.S.R. Northern Jurisdiction before and after 1867 union. This comes with an...

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An unissued Supreme Council honorary 33° certificate created sometime between 1861 and 1867. Signed by Sovereign Grand Commander Killian Van Rensselaer, Lieutenant Sovereign Grand Commander Josiah H. Drummond, Grand Secretary General Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, and others.