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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Resolution concerning the relationship between the Grand Lodge of Ohio and Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite of Louisiana, 1869 October 28

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2002-118-055
Scope and Contents

Resolution between the Grand Lodge of Ohio and the Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite of Louisiana, stating that members in Ohio are prohibited from receiving Symbolic Degree through the Lousiana Supreme Council. It is signed (printed signature) by John D. Caldwell, Grand Secretary of Ohio.

Dates: 1869 October 28
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Rose Croix certificate issued to Hector Coffin, 1821 January 22

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier:  A2016-010
Scope and Contents A Rose Croix certificate issued to Hector Coffin on January 22, 1821, by the Souverain Chapitre les Amis de la Paix, a Rose Croix chapter based in Charleston, South Carolina, and subordinate to Joseph Cerneau's Grand Consistory of the United States of America in New York, New York. The certificate is signed by Joel R. Poinsett as Premier Surveillant. Signed note on reverse by Peter Javain, who was appointed Deputy Grand Inspector General for South Carolina by Cerneau's Sovereign Grand...
Dates: 1821 January 22
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Rose Croix charter issued by the Grand Council General to the Eliah Rose Croix Chapter, No. 28, 1868 June 4

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2022-229-001
Dates: 1868 June 04
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Royal and Select Master manuscript, circa 1850

 Item
Identifier: A1994-013-136
Scope and Contents Document entitled "Royal and Select Master" opens with the question: "We have been asked several times, what kind of degrees are the above mentioned and where did they come from?" It uses information from the Circular of the Supreme Grand Council of Sov. Gr. Insp. Gen. of 33° to address these questions. This document ascertains that the degrees of Royal and Select Master cannot be separated from the series of degrees conferred from the Lodges of Perfection and therefore, a Counsil [sic] of R...
Dates: circa 1850
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Correspondence of Giles F. Yates, 1826-1860

Sovereign Chapter Treble Alliance, 1814

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-056
Dates: 1814
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Spurious Colored Masonry, 1945

 File
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to questionable charter application in Wisconsin. George W. Crawford, Grand Commander (Prince Hall) advised that they should not be recognized.

Dates: 1945
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Records of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1915-1979 / Subject Files (F) Clandestine Masonry Files

State Grand Lodge : violation of occupied territory by Theodore S. Houston, 1955

 Item
Identifier: A2019-156-001
Content Description

This document purports that African-American State Grand Lodges are in open violation of Masonic law. Houston, an African-American, was the Sovereign Grand Master of Lodges of the U. S. A.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, clandestine Masonry files, 1927-1988

 Collection
Identifier: A1992-105
Scope and Contents This collection, spanning from 1927-1988, contains correspondence by the Sovereign Grand Commanders of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdicition, with and about what they consider clandestine, or illegitimate, Masonic organizations. The majority of the collection is on African American Masonic organizations that the United Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, Prince Hall Affiliation do not consider legitimate. There is correspondence between the United Supreme Council...
Dates: 1927-1988
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

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
Dates: 1792-1992
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

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