Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State, 1866

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Identifier: A2019-089-001

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Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State. Dated 1866. This manuscript petition from a group of Scottish Rite Freemasons asks the Supreme Council's permission to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in the State of New York. Signed by the officers of Cosmopolitan Sovereign Consistory, No. 1, of New York City; Central City Consistory, No. 3, of Syracuse; Rochester Consistory of Rochester; and Aurora Grata Consistory of Brooklyn. Includes Edward H. Craige's 1915 letter bequeathing the petition to the archives of the Supreme Council.

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Creation: 1866

Creator

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction (Organization)

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