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SC 001.025. Circular Warning against the Hays (Cerneau) Supreme Council in New York City, 1862 November 01

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Identifier: SC 001.025

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Circular issued by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862 November 01

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Identifier: A2002-108-001
Scope and Contents

A circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, to all Freemasons living in New York and New Jersey. The circular details the granting of charters and dispensations from a New York City-based Supreme Council (i.e. the Hays Council, with Edmund Burke Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander) and a warning to Masons not to be "deluded into joining" any subordinate bodies chartered by this clandestine Supreme Council. Dated November 1, 1862.

Dates: 1862 November 01