Clandestine Masonry
Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:
Charter for Sublime Lodge of Perfection in Boston, Mass., 1883
Charter for Utica Consistory from the Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, 1881
Charter issued to Fort Orange Consistory, 1899 October 6
Charter issued to Templar Lodge, No. 6, by St. John's Grand Lodge, 1850
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.
Charter of Haramon Lodge, Orient of Argentina, 1907
This charter states that the "Orient of Boston" constituted this Blue Lodge. The charter is in Spanish
Circular, 1824
Printed circular from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts about man made a Mason in a clandestine lodge
Circular issued by St. John's Grand Lodge, 1850
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.
Circular issued by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862 November 01
A circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, to all Freemasons living in New York and New Jersey. The circular details the granting of charters and dispensations from a New York City-based Supreme Council (i.e. the Hays Council, with Edmund Burke Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander) and a warning to Masons not to be "deluded into joining" any subordinate bodies chartered by this clandestine Supreme Council. Dated November 1, 1862.
Circular letter from Gil W. Barnard to Illinois Freemasons regarding Cerneau bodies, 1889 February 14
Notice to Illinois Scottish Rite Masons about Cerneau bodies particularly warning the Scottish Rite Masons of Burlington, Illinois that there clandestine Cerneau bodies in the area and for them to beware
Circular letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike regarding the state of the Scottish Rite, 1883 November 01
A circular letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike of the Southern Jurisdiction, dated November 1, 1883. In this document, Sovereign Grand Commander Pike denounces the actions of three spurious Supreme Councils located in the cities of New York and Boston. In particular, Pike denounces the practice of selling degrees and the harm that will befall Freemasonry if these illegitimate bodies were ever to gain recognition by the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.