Clandestine Masonry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Thirty Third Degree (unusual or illegal conferral), 1960-1989
File — Box 58, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection documents the business of the Office of the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction from 1866-2000 with the bulk of the material from 1980-1998. It includes a limited amount of records from Leon M. Abbott and Melvin M. Johnson (see their respective separate collections, A2021/074 and A2019/001) with the bulk of the material from George A. Newbury, Stanley F. Maxwell, George E. Bushnell, Francis George Paul, and Robert Odel Ralston.The bulk...
Dates:
1960-1989
Thirty Third Degree (unusual or illegal conferral), 1990-1993
File — Box 58, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection documents the business of the Office of the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction from 1866-2000 with the bulk of the material from 1980-1998. It includes a limited amount of records from Leon M. Abbott and Melvin M. Johnson (see their respective separate collections, A2021/074 and A2019/001) with the bulk of the material from George A. Newbury, Stanley F. Maxwell, George E. Bushnell, Francis George Paul, and Robert Odel Ralston.The bulk...
Dates:
1990-1993
Thompson-Folger Supreme Council records, 1883-1914
Collection
Identifier: A2012-002
Scope and Contents
Collection of minute books and one signature book created by the Thompson-Folger Council, an early Scottish rite organization
Dates:
1883-1914
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Typescript deposition of Josiah H. Drummond in answer to interrogatories of J. J. Gorman of New York, undated
Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1992-071-001
Scope and Contents
Typescript (copy) deposition of Josiah H. Drummond in answer to interrogatories of J. J. Gorman, Esq. of New York (William A. Hershiser, et. als vs. S. Stacker Williams et. als.). This includes the history of Drummond's receiving Scottish Rite degrees in 1859, discussion of the expulsion of Edward A. Raymond from Northern Jurisdiction, expulsion of Van Rensellaer from Northern Jurisdiction in 1862, and history of A.A.S.R. Northern Jurisdiction before and after 1867 union. This comes with an...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Typescript supplemental documents of A History of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States, 1877
Item
Identifier: A1992-120
Scope and Contents
In 1877, Enoch Terry Carson created a typewritten copy of Folger's bound suplmental documents for his history, titled, "A History of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States: More Especially as Connected with the Operation of the So-Called Cerneau Supreme Council from its Organization in 1807, to its Final Absorption into the Supreme Council of the Northern Jurisdiction of the U.S. in 1867." He describes the purchase of the Folger manuscript appendix in his preface and warns...
Dates:
1877
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Valley of New York letterhead, undated
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-047-001
Content Description
An unused sheet of stationery created by a group of Cerneau inspired Freemasons from the Valley of New York.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Wheeler Cable Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1897
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: A2002-018
Scope and Contents
Folders 1-7: Wheeler Cable Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1897. This collection of correspondence was found at the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and was taken to the Supreme Council archives in May, 193[?]. The bulk of the letters were sent from various Cerneau bodies to Wheeler Cable, Grand Secretary and later, Sovereign Grand Commander, Massachusetts body. Several notable members of the Cerneauites are represented, including William H. Peckham, M. W. Bayliss, P.F.D. Hibbs, James McGrath,...
Dates:
1891-1897
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
William H. Peckham renunciation of Cerneauism, 1889 August 20
Item
Identifier: A1992-043