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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Membership certificate issued to Carl O. Oberg by Massachusetts Lodge, No. 296, 1906

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1990-043-001
Scope and Contents

Certificate is from a clandestine lodge. Massachusetts' lodges do not have numbers and do not reference "the Grand Lodge of the United States of America".

Dates: 1906

Memo for Grand Commander, undated

 File — Box 18
Identifier: A2019-178-1007
Scope and Contents

Memo includes extracts "from the Supreme Council of France records held in the archives at Washington." Topics include de Grasse Tilly, Delahogue, Cerneau,

Dates: undated

Michigan, 1928-1932

 File — Box 11, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

The following topics are mentioned: John S. Carton, Roy L. Hooker, Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Clandestine body, Mexico

Dates: 1928-1932

Minute books of the Cerneau, Atwood, and Hays Councils, 1816-1866

 Collection
Identifier: A2006-032-001
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of 5 Minute books: Minute Book of the Cerneau Sovereign Grand Consistory, New York, 1816-1826; Minute Book of Atwood Council, New York, 1856-1857; Minute Book of Atwood Council, New York, 1852-1858; Minute Book of the Hays Council, New York, 1860-1866; Minute Book of the Atwood Council, New York, 1860-1862; all these councils represent early forms of Scottish Rite

Dates: 1816-1866

Negative photostat of the Hays-Raymond Union certificate, 1863 May 7

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2002-115-001
Scope and Contents

Negative photostat of the certificate of union of Edmund B. Hays and Edward A. Raymond, on 7 May 1863, signed by Edmund B. Hays and Daniel Sickels. Certificate joins the Supreme Council in Boston, led by Edward A. Raymond, with the Supreme Council in New York, led by Edmund B. Hays and merged with the Cerneau Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

Dates: 1863 May 7

Newspaper clippings, undated

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0911a-b
Scope and Contents

Article by Nathan H. Gould and Thomas Doyle regarding spurious groups

Dates: undated

Newspaper clippings, 1891

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0916v
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and New York Sun; two articles on Cerneau groups

Dates: 1891