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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Certificate expelling Edward A. Raymond and Simon W. Robinson by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862

 Item
Identifier: A2002-116
Scope and Contents

Certificate from A.A.S.R., N.M.J. expelling Edward A. Raymond and Simon W. Robinson for gross unmasonic conduct signed by Killian H. Van Rensselaer

Dates: 1862

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

Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania court transcript of case between the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and Cerneau body, 1944

 Collection
Identifier: A1994-046
Scope and Contents This court case between the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and the officers and members of Pilgrim Lodge, No. 189, and Allentown Consistory, No. 46, was heard before Judge James Gay Gordon, Jr. in the Common Pleas Court No. 2 of the 1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania on Monday, March 13, 1944. The members of these two bodies are the following: John Alden Johnson, Albert W. Hawk, Milton E. Everett, Willard Arner, and Clayton Schleicher. These two bodies are accused of...
Dates: 1944

Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, clandestine Masonry files, 1927-1988

 Collection
Identifier: A1992-105
Scope and Contents This collection, spanning from 1927-1988, contains correspondence by the Sovereign Grand Commanders of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdicition, with and about what they consider clandestine, or illegitimate, Masonic organizations. The majority of the collection is on African American Masonic organizations that the United Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, Prince Hall Affiliation do not consider legitimate. There is correspondence between the United Supreme Council...
Dates: 1927-1988

Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, documents concerning Prince Hall organizations and other groups considered to be clandestine collection, 1919-1927

 Collection — Box 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1996-015
Scope and Contents

Documents concerning Prince Hall organizations and other groups considered by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction to be clandestine. The bulk of the correspondence concerns N. N. Boozier and his claim to be Grand Master of King Solomon Lodge in Texas. Also includes court decrees regarding these claims.

Dates: 1919-1927