MA 007. Blue Lodge certificates

Scope and Contents Masonic Register for a Master Mason hand drawn and colored in gouache. Register includes many Masonic symbols including all-seeing eye of God, two lambs representing innocence, mother angel and children representing the Masonic virtue of Charity, the capital G in the center representing God or Geometry, two columns representing pillars of King Solomon's Temple, and a broken column shown with Father Time and a weeping virgin standing over a book, representing mourning. Register includes...

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A Master Mason certificate issued to Kent Jones Owens by Evergreen Lodge No. 170, of Freeport, Illinois, and dated August 24, 1917. Imprint at the bottom of the certificate reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1895 by The Pettibone Bros. M'f'g. Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. The Pettibone Bros. M'F'G. Co. Fraternity Publishers, Cincinnati, O."

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Imprint at bottom of certificate reads, "John A. Lowell Bank Note Co. Boston." Warren Lodge is located in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

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A Master Mason certificate issued by St. John's Lodge, No. 1, of Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charles Bellatly, and dated June 7, 1815. Imprint at the bottom of the certificate reads, "Bror. Rollinson Sculptist New York." St. John's Lodge, No. 1, is the oldest lodge in the state of North Carolina.

Content Description A Master Mason certificate issued by Independent Royal Arch Lodge, No. 2, to Robert Palmer. Dated February 10, 1795. The imprint at the bottom of the certificate reads, "Bror. Rollinson Scupt." The reverse of the document contains an inscription written in French by J. Armand, the Secretary of the Loge Vérité, a Haitian Masonic lodge in the city of Saint-Domingue. The inscription states that Armand received Palmer’s certificate on January 4, 1801. The date is translated from the French...

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A Master Mason certificate issued by Union Lodge, No. 31, (New London, CT) to Henry Stoll. Dated October 14, 1862. Imprint at the bottom of the certificate reads, "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1854, by Robert Macoy, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of New-York."