Clandestine Masonry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992
Collection
Identifier: A2019-178
Supreme Council warning and declaration, 1882-1885
Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0271b
Scope and Contents
A warning and declaration from the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, dated sometime between 1882-1885. In this document, the Supreme Council warns brethren of the wrong doing of certain persons in several States to peddle degrees for gain. The document provides a brief history of three Supreme Councils in America (Cerneau, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and Southern Jurisdiction) and denounces the Cerneau inspired Supreme Councils of Seymour-Peckham and Thompson-Folger. The...
Dates:
1882-1885
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
Thompson-Folger Supreme Council's comment on its legitimacy booklet, 1897-1916
File — Box 7
Identifier: A2019-178-0245
Scope and Contents
A defense of the Cerneau inspired Thompson-Folger Supreme Council by its Sovereign Grand Commander Major W. Bayliss, dated sometime between 1897-1916. In this document, Bayliss disputes the Southern Jurisdiction's claim being the "Mother Council of the World" and contends that his Supreme Council is the only legitimate Scottish Rite power in the country.
Dates:
1897-1916
Translated copy of a communication from Antoine Louis Moret to the Grand Orient de France, 1827 June 06
File — Box 8
Identifier: A2019-178-0305
Scope and Contents
Letter discusses Joseph Cerneau in which Moret accuses Cerneau of trafficking of the 33rd degree.
Dates:
1827 June 06
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