Box 202

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Single sheet from Boston Press newspaper, an Anti-masonic newspaper with articles on Antimasonry and the Morgan Affair. Newspaper is dated May 20, 1831. The front page reprints a May 4, 1831 letter from Hon. Richard Rush to the Committee of the Citizens of York County, PA and explains that he used to be a Mason, but now considers Freemasonry a subversive force.

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Though certificate is blank, bottom portion is filled in. It is from Rising States Lodge, Boston, Massachusetts

Scope and Contents Printed Masonic certificate with imagery of drapery along the top with two columns at the center and three steps along the bottom. There are two Native figures at bottom left and two classical figures at bottom right. On the top step are a box, a book, a square and compasses, and a globe. There is text at left and right on the far side of the columns. In between the columns, it reads, "To all Brethren through the world, Anno Lucis / We, the members of Essex Lodge, regularly constituted / at...

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Master Mason certificate issued to Thomas Hawkins of Montmouth (now Monmouth) County, England. Certificate is from the Lodge of St. John, under the title of the Children of Mars and Neptune. Certificate is in French and English. One of the signers is DeGrasse-Tilly (1765-1845). The design of the pen-and-ink drawing has the two columns for Joachim and Boaz, the square and compass, and many other Masonic symbols.