Clandestine Masonry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
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
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library