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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:

Facsimile of Cerneau certificate, 1849

 Item — Box 325
Identifier: GL2004-2407
Dates: 1849
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts collection, 1689-1956

Folger, Thompson, and Currier, 1937

 File — Box 3, Folder: 45
Dates: 1937
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Samuel Harrison Baynard, Jr., 33°, correspondence, 1931-1940

Frank B. Spengler Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1951

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2013-011
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Frank B. Spengler's materials on his involvement with the Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies. This Scottish Rite body was considered irregular by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction. This council was also known as the Thompson-Folger Supreme Council and formed in 1881 by Hopkins Thompson and Robert B. Folger, who were members of the NMJ's Supreme...
Dates: 1891-1951
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Grand Orient of France records, 1780-1816

 Collection
Identifier: A1990-035
Scope and Contents

Collection of French documents, mostly addressed to or emanating from Grand Orient of France, includes correspondence between lodges and Grand Orient of France, list of Officers of Grand Orient and description of uniform dress, Masonic poems, Tableau (list of members, addresses, birth dates) for 2 lodges, official handwritten forms of Grand Orient of France, and financial documents.

Dates: 1780-1816
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Haverhill Spurious Bodies, 1944

 File — Box 99, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to the attempted formation of a clandestine Masonic organization in Haverhill, MA.

Dates: 1944
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Records of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1915-1979 / Subject Files (F) Clandestine Masonry Files

Hays Council Registers of Oaths of Allegiance and Oaths of Office, 1855-1867

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: A2010-026
Dates: 1855-1867
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

History notes (Cerneau), 1938 February 28

 File — Box 9
Identifier: A2019-178-0399
Dates: 1938 February 28
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992

History of the Old Guard and Gourgas Supreme Council, undated

 File — Box 9
Identifier: A2019-178-0373
Scope and Contents

Item discusses Cerneau Freemasonry in Maryland, the formation of the Gourgas Supreme Council, and its origin as the Old Guard of Maryland

Dates: undated
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992

Important to Masons broadside, 1883-1887

 File — Box 9
Identifier: A2019-178-0397
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Cerneau; rejects Seymour-Peckham Council

Dates: 1883-1887
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992

Indiana Clandestinism, 1950

 File — Box 100, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to clandestine Masonic bodies in Indiana and Michigan.

Dates: 1950
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Records of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1915-1979 / Subject Files (F) Clandestine Masonry Files

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