MA 007. Blue Lodge certificates

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Facsimile transcription of African Lodge, No. 459, charter issued on September 29, 1784. The image of original charter is in the lower left corner.

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Certificate of Master Mason for Robert Herne issued in Winnicut, Lodge No. 92 in New Hampshire. The certificate is from July 11, 1878 and has blue text surrounded by blue masonic pictures.

Scope and Contents Master Mason certificate issued to Dearborn Lougee from the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, Strafford Lodge, No. 29, Dover, 1826. It is decorated with Masonic symbols including an all seeing eye at top center, two columns as borders, each with a woman on top, one with an anchor representing Hope, the other with a book and cross representing Faith. The bottom center has a third woman with children representing Charity. Two colonial men wearing aprons on each side of "Charity." Two ribbons...

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Master Mason certificate issued to William Penn (d. 1855) of Mt. Hope Lodge, in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts

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Master Mason certificate issued by Essex Lodge (Salem, Massachusetts) to Samuel Derby and dated 1796. The Dutch inscription on the back of certificate is notation/affidavit of Samuel Derby’s visit to the La Vertueuse lodge in Batavia, Dutch East Indies or nowadays Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 15, 1801. The imprint on bottom of certificate reads "J. Hiller jun'r, del. S. Hill sc."