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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-053
Dates: 1862 January 08

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

 Item
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

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

 Item
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

Edmund B. Hays Scottish Rite certificates, 1857-1858

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: A2002-112
Dates: 1857-1858

Engrossed Scottish Rite 33° certificate for Edmund B. Hays, issued by St. John's Grand Lodge, 1848 September 9

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2015-108
Content Description

A certifiate issued to Edmund B. Hays of New York, New York, for the position of Sovereign Grand Inspector General, signed by Henry C. Atwood.

Dates: 1848 September 09

Insurance certificate issued to Addie B. Bell by the National Charity Department of Electa Chapter, No. 10, 1949 April 1

 Item
Identifier: A1998-085-001
Scope and Contents

National Grand Orient Insurance Certificate issued for Addie B. Bell and signed by William Fitzpatrick, M.P. Sovereign Grand Commander. The certificate was issued by the National Charity Department, Electa Chapter No. 10, Alliance, Ohio on April 1, 1949.

Dates: 1949 April 1

Resolution concerning the relationship between the Grand Lodge of Ohio and Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite of Louisiana, 1869 October 28

 Item
Identifier: A2002-118-055
Scope and Contents

Resolution between the Grand Lodge of Ohio and the Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite of Louisiana, stating that members in Ohio are prohibited from receiving Symbolic Degree through the Lousiana Supreme Council. It is signed (printed signature) by John D. Caldwell, Grand Secretary of Ohio.

Dates: 1869 October 28