Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804

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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Though certificate is blank, bottom portion is filled in. It is from Rising States Lodge, Boston, Massachusetts

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Membership certificate to Asa Page from Rising States Lodge, No. 2, Boston, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts The certificate documents that Page received the Master Mason (or Third) degree.

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Certificate from Harris Lodge, Athol, Massachusetts under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

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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."