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32° certificate for John A. Ames from Supreme Council, Cerneau, 1889

Item — Folder 1

Identifier: A2016-051

Dates: 1889

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

32° certificate issued by the Supreme Grand Council to Dillard H. Clark, 1888 April 2, 1888 April 2

Item — Folder 2

Identifier: A1999-073-002

Dates: 1888 April 2

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Alexander A. Bird Scottish Rite certificate collection, 1874-1918

33° certificate issued to David Jewett, 1865 December 12

Item — Folder 1

Identifier: A2015-105

Scope and Contents

A copy of a diploma issued to David Jewett in 1826 by Joseph Cerneau's Sovereign Grand Consistory. The diploma appoints Jewett as the Deputy Grand Inspector General for Brazil. The original certificate was issued in New York on November 3, 1826. This copy, dated December 22, 1865, was signed and sealed by Ruy Germack Possollo, the Grand Secretary General for the Supreme Council and Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio in Rio de Janeiro.

Dates: 1865 December 12

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

33° certificate issued to John A. Foster, 1862 January 08

Item — Folder 1

Identifier: A2016-053

Dates: 1862 January 08

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

An exposure of the Cerneau Masonic fraud, 1810 January

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Identifier: A2022-288-001

Dates: 1810-01

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Certificate of Healing and Regularizing for the Cerneau Masons of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1849 August 10

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Identifier: A1998-038-001

Scope and Contents Certificate of healing or regularizing of a group of Masons from the jurisdiction of Joseph Cerneau to that of John James Joseph Gourgas, Sovereign Grand Commander, Northern Masonic District and Jurisdiction, U.S.A. The group of Masons healed in this certificate include Nathan Gould, Jeremiah Bliss, George B. Knowles, Samuel V. Mayberry, John D. Dennis, Eisha S. Kenyon, Gilbert Chse, Benjamin James Tilley, Ara Hildreth, Joseph W. Hazard and James G. Topham. It is signed by Killian H. Van...

Dates: 1849 August 10

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Charter for Sublime Lodge of Perfection in Boston, Mass., 1883

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Identifier: A2016-049

Dates: 1883

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Circular issued by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862 November 01

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Identifier: A2002-108-001

Scope and Contents

A circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, to all Freemasons living in New York and New Jersey. The circular details the granting of charters and dispensations from a New York City-based Supreme Council (i.e. the Hays Council, with Edmund Burke Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander) and a warning to Masons not to be "deluded into joining" any subordinate bodies chartered by this clandestine Supreme Council. Dated November 1, 1862.

Dates: 1862 November 01

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library