Yates, Giles F. (Giles Fonda), 1798-1859
Person
Found in 428 Collections and/or Records:
33° certificate issued to John Christie by the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1845 June 17
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-009
Scope and Contents
This certificate, dated June 17, 1845, announces the appointment of John Christie of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-Third degree. Christie was elevated to the grade of Sovereign Grand Inspector General and received into Active Membership in the Supreme Council on April 3, 1845.Certificate signed by officers of the Supreme Council, including J.J.J. Gourgas, Edward A. Raymond, Killian H. van Rensselaer, Giles Fonda Yates, and Charles...
Dates:
1845 June 17
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Certificate of Appointment to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction issued to Giles Fonda Yates, 33°, 1828 July 8
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2015-123
Certificate of Healing and Regularizing for the Cerneau Masons of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1849 August 10
Item
Identifier: A1998-038-001
Scope and Contents
Certificate of healing or regularizing of a group of Masons from the jurisdiction of Joseph Cerneau to that of John James Joseph Gourgas, Sovereign Grand Commander, Northern Masonic District and Jurisdiction, U.S.A. The group of Masons healed in this certificate include Nathan Gould, Jeremiah Bliss, George B. Knowles, Samuel V. Mayberry, John D. Dennis, Eisha S. Kenyon, Gilbert Chse, Benjamin James Tilley, Ara Hildreth, Joseph W. Hazard and James G. Topham. It is signed by Killian H. Van...
Dates:
1849 August 10
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Certificate of healing issued by the Supreme Council to a group of Cerneau Freemasons, 1849 August 10
File — Box 4
Identifier: A2019-178-0142
Dates:
1849 August 10
Circular letter from the Supreme Council and response by Giles F. Yates, 1848 May 01
Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0094h
Scope and Contents
Letter addresses the attacks from Paris, Scotland, and elsewhere against the Supreme Council and the Sovereign Grand Commander
Dates:
1848 May 01
Content of letter from Giles F. Yates to Killian Van Rensselaer, 1848 August
Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0123a
Copy of a letter from John James Joseph Gourgas and Giles F. Yates to William H. Milnor, 1850 December 25
Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0417b
Copy of a petition to the Supreme Council to form a consistory in New York City, 1856
File — Box 9
Identifier: A2019-178-0408
Copy of letter from Giles F. Yates, 1851 November 9
Item
Identifier: A1994-013-139
Scope and Contents
Copy of typed letter dated November 9, 1851, from Giles Fonda Yates with notation: "This is a copy retained by Yates of a letter he wrote apparently to some Masonic editor (Mackey?) or possibly to the Southern Supreme Council." It concerns the incorrect views regarding Royal and Select Masters Degrees and quotes from a letter from J. J. J. Gourgas.
Dates:
1851 November 9
Copy of letter from Giles F. Yates to J. J. J. Gourgas, 1851 July 23
Item
Identifier: A1994-013-138
Scope and Contents
Typed carbon copy of letter dated July 23, 1851 from Giles Fonda Yates to J. J. J. Gourgas reporting the plan to publish a small pamphlet providing documentary evidence of "our existence as a Supreme Council from 5: Augt. 1813, up to present time."
Dates:
1851 July 23