Volume 1

Scope and Contents Contains original minutes and Letters of Constitution of Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. On the cover: "33d by 40th 23 Mins North Latitude." Pages 1, 14-15 are signed by all six founding officers of the Supreme Council: Daniel Decius Tompkins (1774-1825), Sampson Simson (1780-1857), John Gabriel Tardy (1761-1831), John James Joseph Gourgas (1777-1865), Richard Riker (1773-1842), and Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto (1767-1828). The signatures of Emanuel De La Motta are not...