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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Charter for Dewitt Clinton Council, Knights of Kadosh, 1884

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-050

Charter issued to Fort Orange Consistory, 1899 October 6

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1993-067
Dates: 1899 October 6

Charter issued to Templar Lodge, No. 6, by St. John's Grand Lodge, 1850

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1980-034-001
Scope and Contents

Charter for a Templar Lodge authorized by a Grand Lodge in New York. The lodge and grand lodge are clandestine, not regular. Henry Atwood is named as Grand Master and Daniel Sickels as Senior Grand Warden of the St. John's Grand Lodge of New York.

Dates: 1850

Circular issued by St. John's Grand Lodge, 1850

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1983-013-001
Scope and Contents

Circular of St. John's Grand Lodge, New York signed (printed) by Robert Macoy, Grand Secretary. It concerns arbitration between Grand Lodge of New York and St. John's Grand Lodge, New York, specifically holding Masonic funerals and also regards the accusation that St. John's Grand Lodge is composed of clandestine Masons.

Dates: 1850

Circular to Lodges in Michigan from Lodges in Illinois, 1867

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2002-118-058
Scope and Contents

Circular to Lodges in Michigan from Lodges in Illinois concerns the illigitimate body formed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, pretending to be Scottish Rite.

Dates: 1867

Circulars issued by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania against Cerneauism, 1888-1889

 Collection — Box 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1992-067-006
Scope and Contents

Circulars sent out from the Office of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania that issued a warning to all Pennsylvania Masons would have been involved with Cerneau bodies to sever the relationship

Dates: 1888-1889

Clandestine bodies

 File — Box 52, Folder: 1
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: 1866-2000; Majority of material found within 1980-1998