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Circular announcing the formation of the first Supreme Council, located at Charleston, South Carolina. This is the foundation document of the Ancient and Accepted (Scottish) Rite. This copy signed by John Mitchell (Grand Commander) and signed and…

This Supreme Council, S.J., document appoints and commissions Robert McCorskry Graham to be the Southern Jurisdiction’s representative to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Dated September 24, 1867. Signed by Sovereign Grand…

An honorary emeritus membership certificate issued by Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction to Sovereign Grand Commander Henry L. Palmer of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Dated March 1, 1889. Signed by Sovereign…

A letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike of the Southern Jurisdiction. Dated October 31, 1883. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Pike explains his decision to expel Frederick Widdows for violating his oath to the two legitimate…

A circular letter from Secretary General William M. Ireland entitled “A Statute in regard to spurious Masons of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.” Dated after 1882. In this document, Irelands announces the enactment of a statute that warns…

A letter from Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike of the Southern Jurisdiction. Dated November 1, 1883. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Pike discusses the Cerneau-inspired Seymour-Peckham Supreme Council of New York City and informs…

A confidential letter from Robert H. Waterman to Enoch Terry Carson. Dated December 4, 1885. In this letter, Waterman encloses a copy of a letter from Otis Cole of Rochester, New York, a friend of both men. Waterman discloses that he has come into…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated July 15, 1822. In this letter, Moses Holbrook, a member of the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction, writes that Jacob De La Motta has asked Holbrook to request information from Gourgas…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated January 25/26, 1827. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction responds to Gourgas' letter of January 17, 1827, until his responsibilities as a…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas . Dated March 26, 1827. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction acknowledges Gourgas’ letter of March 10, 1827, and states that his Supreme Council has…