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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

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Circular issued by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1862 November 01

File — Box 4

Identifier: A2019-178-0143

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1862 November 01

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992

Circular letter from Gil W. Barnard to Illinois Freemasons regarding Cerneau bodies, 1889 February 14

File — Box 7

Identifier: A2019-178-0223

Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1889 February 14

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992

Circular letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike regarding the state of the Scottish Rite, 1883 November 01

File — Box 7

Identifier: A2019-178-0231

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1883 November 01

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States records, 1792-1992