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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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate. Attached is a note about Caleb Lufkin's wife Martha and daughter who were on the charity lists at Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate. Attached to the back of the certificate is a note dated 1866 written by D. A. Robinson, Mt. Zion Lodge (now in Barre, Massachusetts), which states that Freman Holden was indeed raised to the degree of Master Mason in 1804