Gourgas, John James Joseph, 1777-1865

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...

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Album of photographic portraits of the members of Lodge de l'Union Francaise No. 17 of New York City. Many famous Masons were members of this lodge including J. J. J. Gourgas (whose portrait appears twice in the album in lithograph) as well as John Williams Simons, Grand Master of New York in 1860

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Charter of the Lodge of Perfection of the Valley of Newport, Rhode Island (later changed to Van Rensselaer Lodge of Perfection) which is dated December 14, 1849, and signed by J.J.J. Gourgas, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. b-c: two part metal tube, dark copper color, dent in side of lid.

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Circular letter addresses the attacks from Paris, Scotland, and elsewhere against the Supreme Council and the Sovereign Grand Commander.

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Letter addresses Cerneau Freemasonry and that the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction consists of 14 states

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Letter addresses the attacks from Paris, Scotland, and elsewhere against the Supreme Council and the Sovereign Grand Commander