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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Clandestine-Pennsylvania case documents

 File — Box 52, Folder: 2
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

Commentary on Scottish Rite Freemasonry, 1837-1848

 File — Box 8
Identifier: A2019-178-0296
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Unsigned commentary on Scottish Rite Freemasonry attributed Gourgas. Topics include the modern degrees; Cerneau, Hicks, and the Grand Orient of France; New Orleans and Louisiana; consistories for the 14 states; Jamaica; Holbrook; Jews; St. Domingo and African Americans

Dates: 1837-1848

Copy of a letter from John A. Shaw to Emanuel De La Motta, 1814 February 06

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0126i
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Re circular; favors Cerneau's Grand Consistory; very scathing

Dates: 1814 February 06

Copy of a letter from John Mitchell to Emanuel De La Motta, 1813 December 24

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0126e
Scope and Contents

Letter approves conduct around Cerneau. Copy certified a true copy by Sampson Simpson, Riker Tardy and Gourgas, Jan. 17 1814

Dates: 1813 December 24

Copy of a letter from Louis Jean Lusson to Emanuel De La Motta, 1814 August 27

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0126c
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Kingston Jamaica; Cerneau; Charleston

Dates: 1814 August 27

Copy of a letter from Stephen Deblouis to Emanuel De La Motta, 1814 February 05

 Item
Identifier: A2019-178-0126h
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses the following topics: Your circular merits contempt of Masons; De Witt Clinton; Cerneau is scathing; Deblois a Cerneau advocate

Dates: 1814 February 05