Clandestine Masonry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:
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
Unsigned commentary on the Grand Lodge of New York's union celebration with St. John's Grand Lodge, 1850 December 28
Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0417c
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
Why I abandoned Cerneauism pamphlet by Brother George H. Walker, 32, 1889 July 08
File — Box 9
Identifier: A2019-178-0368
Dates:
1889 July 08
William H. Peckham renunciation of Cerneauism, 1889 August 20
Item
Identifier: A1992-043