Box 202

Scope and Contents Masonic summons to Brother Oxnard for a meeting of First Lodge, Boston. At bottom center are six steps leading up to an archway. There are three columns on each side of the steps. Faith, Hope, and Charity are on top of the columns on one side. Wisdom, Beauty, and Strength are on top of the columns of the other side. The arch has printed text reading, "Incoctum Generoso Pectus Honesto." Hanging from the arch are three symbols, crossed keys, a square and crossed quills. Above the arch are...

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Engraving has three columns with Hope, Charity, and Faith standing upon them, the all-seeing eye is above

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Engraving has three Gothic style arches with Faith, Charity, and Hope below them

Scope and Contents Anti-Masonic ballad titled "Faneuil Hall Riot, or Masonry Unveiled" and printed in the form of a broadside. This broadside solicits support for the Anti-Masonic political party. It describes an August 1830 meeting where Masons and Anti-Masons discussed whether a Mason could perform the duties of a public office in an impartial manner. The broadside mentions both Boston's mayor Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and sheriff Charles Sumner (1776-1839). Neither man was a Mason. At top center is an...

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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.

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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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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate

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Hope, Faith and Charity surround a sphere with the text of the certificate