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Official baluster from the Southern Jurisdiction, 1826 May 11

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Identifier: A2019-178-0301
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Letter discusses the following topics: reply to March 30, 1826, communication; the compositions of the Supreme Councils; the making of 33rds; Joseph Cerneau; asks that Giles F. Yates be recognized as the Southern Jurisdiction representative in New York and as the Southern Jurisdiction's representative on the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction's Supreme Council

Dates: 1826 May 11

Translated copy of a communication from Antoine Louis Moret to the Grand Orient de France, 1827 June 06

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Identifier: A2019-178-0305
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Letter discusses Joseph Cerneau in which Moret accuses Cerneau of trafficking of the 33rd degree.

Dates: 1827 June 06

Official baluster from the Southern Jurisdiction, 1830 October 26

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Identifier: A2019-178-0307
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Letter discusses the following topics: Extra session of Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction; death of Sovereign Grand Commander Isaac Auld; Deputies; Brother Barker of Wellingford, CT; Yates; to transfer Southern Jurisdiction returns to Northern Jurisdiction; states of the Northern Jurisdiction and Southern Jurisdiction; De La Motta; translation of manuscripts

Dates: 1830 October 26

Official communication of Sovereign Grand Commander Josiah H. Drummond, 1871

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Identifier: A2019-178-0311
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Letter discusses the following topics: Abolishes state Grand Consistories; charters for new bodies issued by the Supreme Council; new dispensations issued by the Sovereign Grand Commander; process for new dispensations

Dates: 1871

Letter from Charles S. Westcott to Charles W. Moore, 1855 November 21

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Identifier: A2019-178-0264
Scope and Contents A letter from Charles S. Westcott to Charles W. Moore, dated November 21, 1855. In this letter, Westcott requests the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, accept the petition of a group of New York City Freemasons to unify with the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. These Freemasons had previously worked under the jurisdiction of New Orleans but had recently surrendered their consistory's charter to the Supreme Council at Charleston. Westcott fears that they will join with the Cerneau...
Dates: 1855 November 21

Letter from Fred to John regarding Freemasonry in Trinidad, 1866 November 28

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Identifier: A2019-178-0265
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A letter from Fred to John dated November 28, 1866. In this letter, the author describes the state of Freemasonry on the island of Trinidad and asks his friend John to send information regarding the history of Freemasonry on Trinidad. The author wishes to use the information to resolve the legitimacy of the island's lodges created by the rivaling factions of Andres Cassard, initially supported by the Southern Jurisdiction, and Vicente Antonio de Castro.

Dates: 1866 November 28