Skip to main content

Gourgas, John James Joseph, 1777-1865

 Person

Found in 664 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript copy of a letter from John James Joseph Gourgas to John Christie, 1850 July 29

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0028f
Scope and Contents Manuscript copy of a letter from John James Joseph Gourgas to John Christie, dated July 29, 1850. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Gourgas continues his warning to beware of "two certain intriguers not many miles from" Christie, who lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This comment may be reference to Charles W. Moore and Edward A. Raymond of Boston. Other topics include the degrees of Royal and Select Master and a warning against those who "creep up to high office" or try to make...
Dates: 1850 July 29

Manuscript copy of a letter from Nathan Hammatt Gould to John James Joseph Gourgas, 1848 December 05

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0034a
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of a letter from Nathan Hammatt Gould to John James Joseph Gourgas, dated December 5, 1848. In this letter, Gould asks for Gourgas' aid in setting up a Council or Consistory in Newport, Rhode Island. Gould also alludes to the controversy taking place between the Supreme Councils of New York and Charleston.

Dates: 1848 December 05

Manuscript copy of extract from June 27, 1829, baluster, 1829

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0203l
Scope and Contents

Baluster nominates Gourgas as representative of the Grand College of Rites of France, near the Supreme Council 33, New York

Dates: 1829